Tuesday April 22, 2008 Hong Kong The Pang brothers, Oxide (彭順) and Danny (彭發) are currently filming the long awaited sequel to Stormriders <風雲> in Thailand. Original leading males Aaron Kwok (郭富城) and Ekin Cheng (鄭伊健) are reprising their roles as Cloud (步驚雲) and Wind (聶風) respectively and showed off their fresh new look at the film's blessing ceremony yesterday at a film studio in Bangkok. The two leading stars gave a demonstration of their fighting scenes for the press who were present at the ceremony and at first everything was going very smoothly as they showed off their graceful moves. However, there was a slight mishap, when Ekin accidentally hit Aaron on the head with his sword. The shock and the pain left Aaron clutching his head and Ekin was immediately very apologetic. Fortunately, there was a doctor on hand and after a quick check, Aaron was given the all-clear and showed just a small bump on his head. He was very supportive of Ekin, saying that they had not had very much practice with the weapons because a lot of the action shots are created with computer graphics. Aaron revealed that they were both left rather battered and bruised in a hand-to-hand combat scene earlier, but he laughed that he was expecting some injuries in taking on an action film. He said that he does not mind suffering minor injuries if the audience appreciates their sincerity in the production. It has been ten years since Aaron and Ekin's first collaboration, but they still seemed to have the chemistry with each other and Aaron smiled that they feel just as young as they were before. As for who will be singing the film's theme song, he said that it is in the hands of the managers to arrange, but he does not mind who lands the job in the end. Aaron's character will be paired with mainland actress Tang Yan (唐嫣) in the film. Ekin was also prepared for injury during filming and told of how he was unable to move after shooting a rainy fighting scene. It was thanks to some qigong healing from the martial arts director that helped to ease the condition. He added that fortunately they were allowed enough time to rest in between shoots. He expressed that it was a great affinity that has brought him back to the character of Wind again after a decade. Asked if girlfriend Yoyo Mung (蒙嘉慧) has been to visit him on set, Ekin said she had not, but he was enjoying the comfortable life in Thailand. Film company boss Daniel Lam (林小明) revealed that the mainland distribution licence for the film has finally been approved after three and a half months and the release date has been tentatively set as Christmas 2009. As for the film reported to have gone over budget, he responded by saying that they have used Hollywood production standards, so it was worth it. A decision will be made later in the year about whether or not they will film a third installment. When Daniel was asked how he felt about the film's production was upstaged by the appearance of Cecilia Cheung (張栢芝) on set last week, visiting her husband Nicholas Tse (謝霆鋒). He said that it could not be helped, so he would accept it as another form of publicity for the film. credits: batgwa.
XMAS 2009. GOD damn. Good or not, it's a must for me. The famous comic. I never ever bought VCDs back in the days but I did for this haha. AARON made blue hair cool.
Wow! I can't wait to see this movie. I love Ekin and Aaron. Hope this is good becasue alot of movies now is just pure computer graphic. I dont' like just computer graphic, I want to see more of the actors fighting scene. When you only see computer graphic then it seem like is a game not a movie.
ekin and aaron look so dry and dark...is it the make up or something? they need to put on some sun screen
OMG.. they look so old (especially ekin).. n their hairs is so long n messy.. cant make it shorter for those 2 aging men? de costumes still okay.. *Oops! complained too much =X*
I take it you don't know anything about Storm Riders the characters are supposed to have hair like that
^ lol those are how the characters are >__< can't go around changing crucial details hahaha but yes definitly waiting on this =D
i loved this film...even watched the series aswel even tho Ekin and Aaron werent in it.... cant wait....=D