There is no mafia guy, there is no triad guy, there is no prostitute. All the roles you constantly see Chinese actors in are not in this movie. With this movie, Zhang Yimou and I set out to defy every stereotype that you can think of. It seems to be a very specifically American issue. It’s interesting that so far, we haven’t really seen any of the same discussions of race in this movie in the Chinese media. He was the first and the only person we showed it to. So we hit a pause button, and we started to rework the script. The story seemed pretty cliché and not exactly what we wanted to do, and we weren’t able to hit a budget number that we wanted to hit. The movie was about to shoot, and we were looking at the budget and the story. I got involved about four years ago when I joined Legendary. How did you get involved in making this film? In an interview, Peter Loehr, chief executive of Legendary East, the China subsidiary of Legendary Entertainment, and one of the movie’s producers, discussed what Hollywood and China could learn from each other and why he rejected accusations of the film’s “whitewashing” in the casting of Mr. 17, when the film is released in the United States. That will not become clear until after Feb. If it succeeds, industry analysts say this type of big-budget, cross-cultural movie could be a model for future co-productions between China and the United States, the world’s top two film markets.
Many are looking to see whether the film can help Hollywood further penetrate the fast-growing Chinese film market while fulfilling China’s longstanding ambition to make a global cinematic hit. With a budget of more than $150 million, the blockbuster epic, which features Matt Damon and Andy Lau fighting monsters on the iconic Great Wall, is the biggest co-production to date for the United States and China and probably the most expensive movie ever shot exclusively in China.Īlong with those attributes come high expectations. Universal are distrubiting the film which along with the blurb states that it’s become the most expensive movie ever made entirely in China at $135m USD.Ĭheck out the trailer below and let us know what you think in the comments section.The continuing courtship between Hollywood and China reached a new milestone last Friday with the release in China of “ The Great Wall,” the much buzzed-about movie directed by Zhang Yimou and backed by Legendary Entertainment, Universal Pictures, Le Vision Pictures and China Film Group. We’ve already had one 2 minute trailer and this trailer (of group of movie trailers) gives us much more of a feel of what we can expect. The film is set for release in the UK early 2017. The opening few minutes are in English with the remaining seven in (I believe – and please correct me if I’m wrong!) Chinese introducing the characters to the film. The movie is centered around the construction of The Great Wall of China and ask you’ll see form this epic trailer, the movie is action packed and looks visually stunning. The Great Wall comes from director Zhang Yimou and alongside Damon stars Willem Dafoe, Pedro Pascal, Tian Jing, Numan Acar, Zhang Hanyu, Andy Lau, Han Lu, Kenny Lin and and Eddie Peng. Ever think trailers give too much away? Well if that’s the case click away from this post now as a 9 minute Chinese trailer for Matt Damon’s The Great Wall has landed online.