Jet Li Kicks Up Dirt on "Forbidden Kingdom" Binh Ngo writes: "In a posting on his official blog at Alivenotdead.com, Jet Li sheds light on his character(s) in the highly anticipated movie "The Forbidden Kingdom," in which he pairs (finally!) with Jackie Chan in a Westernized take on the classic "Journey to the West" tale. In this re-telling, an American teenager (Michael Angarano) discovers a staff which transports him to ancient China where he joins in a quest to return the staff to the Monkey King. Jet Li plays the dual role of the Monkey King and Silent Monk while Jackie Chan will play a kung fu master named Lu Yan. "[W]hen I first received the script three years ago the producer approached me to play the role of the Monkey King, but at that time there were problems with the script ... At that time they portrayed the Monk as a great fighter [which is a huge departure from the original story]," he writes. Feeling Asian audiences would not accept this drastic of a change, Jet suggested they have the Monkey King transform into the monk. "Since the Monkey King knows the 72 'earthly methods for transformations,' he can pull one of his hairs out and transform himself into the Monk." Other than that, Jet suggested to the producer they take more liberties with the story saying, "This is a dream of this American kid's interpretation of these characters so there is a lot of room for creativity." As for "Fearless" being billed as Jet Li's final martial arts movie, you wouldn't believe in all that marketing spin, would you? "Forbidden Kingdom" is directed by Rob Minkoff ("Stuart Little") for a 2008 release; the film also stars Collin Chou, Li Bingbing, and Liu Yifei. Yuen Woo-ping will choreograph all the action. Check his blog here http://www.alivenotdead.com/26/viewspace_11212.html
i thought Jet Li retired from making kung fu movies or all movies ... from that pic, it looks like a kungfu style and it's a movie.
Lol ya right. I was laughing when it was first announced that it fearless would be his last martial arts movie.
^last wushu, like traditional chinese martial arts movie or something right, but not last martial arts movie... Hopefully their new movie not gonna be like the 2004 monkey king series or a chinese tall story (2005) cause those were gay.
lol obviously! two martial arts master won't collaborate in a touching romantic love story i guess....
thats a fake picture. I remember Jackie chan picture is from rush hour 2 and I think the jet li picture is from cradle 2 the grave.
Lol. I think at least Jet Li is unconsciously homosexual, because he's reaching for Jackie's crotch when he's not looking.
lmao. "unconsciously homosexual" let's all pray that he isn't -sweat ...or else, kung fu brokeback mountain, here we come! -lol
wth? that pic.. is it photoshopped? cause that pic looks exactly like a scene in Rush Hour 2 where jacky and carter fights with the triads in the massage parlour. but edited the pic by removing Carter and putting in jet li.
Is this movie going to be a mandarin language film or is most of the chinese cast going to be speaking in silted english accents, seeing as its financed by hollywood.
Picture showed looks photoshoppped (Jackie Chan from Rush Hour 2 @ bathhouse fight scene) I forget what movie Jet Li was in. Anyways...I have a feeling this might not be too good...but that's what I think.
Li Bing Bing is in this film too? -inlove -blush2 I hope this film will be a funny one which has enough action.
