Monday, February 26, 2007 Hong Kong Steven Ma Finds Treasure Picking up 'Gentle Crackdown 2' Moses Chan and Niki Chow's "The Gentle Crackdown" found great success and good reviews when it aired a few years ago and TVB have confirmed that a sequel will begin filming at the end of next month. Originally it was planned that Moses would reprise his character, but as he is currently tied up filming for the 80-episode spectacular "Jewels Splendor", TVB have decided to replace his leading role with Stephen Ma. With the comment that he has 'run into a treasure without trying', Steven admits that is a great opportunity and he is not afraid of being compared to Moses. When asked if he felt he was onto a good thing, Steven says: "It is a good token, but the storyline is brand new and I am confident with this series. The script editor is the same person who did 'Safe Guards' and the original 'Gentle Crackdown' and I rarely have the chance to film ancient comedies, so this will be a change of direction for me in a new role." Are you afraid of being compared to Moses? Steven smiles: "No, this is a completely new storyline and with some good drama, the viewers will accept it. I am good friends with Moses, so we will see this as a challenge. (The ratings were very good last time, will you find this puts pressure on you?) Most artistes don't feel pressure from ratings as long as we do our best in our roles." Talking of Yumiko Cheng taking her debut TV role in this series, Steven says: "This is the first time we have worked together in a series and I hope she will enjoy it and not put too much pressure on herself. We worked together before in a show and I find her quite outgoing, so I hope there will be some chemistry between us." Moses was asked about losing out on the sequel because of his tight schedules and he smiles: "I would like to film the sequel, because there will be some chemical reactions between the original cast, but the production process is beyond my control." Do you find it a shame? Moses does not mind and says: "The story is completely different and it is just from the same genre. I hope that I can reprise 'Shui Dung Lau' again in the future." credits: tvbspace, asianfanatics.
lol i liked the getnle crackdown... i watched the film because of niki... but i don't regret watching it, it was a nice film. Hope the gentle crackdown 2 turns out to be as good <_<
i like steven....but i just dont get why tvb always produce a sequel without the main original casts in it...no moses and niki? sucks
yeah...they always make a sequel but with a whole new different cast. =( anyways, i hope its good cause i really enjoyed watching the first one.
I lieked Steven ma before moses actually so i thought steven ma would do a good job on this too. Cant wait for the serie
even if her singing is awful, i dont think it'll affect this series cause its only acting and no singing.
so sad. I would have liked moses to be the main character. I really like the 1st of the series. It was so funny
Steven Ma I don't mind. He's pretty good at comedy...but Yumiko kind of ruins it though. Guess they want to keep up with putting newer people as the female hoping the same thing will happen that happened with Nikki.
i liked the first one and i think yumiko is cool, but since its a different story altogether maybe they should just give it another name, which is the case with alot of tvb series, so they wont get compared to the original and discriminated against before even coming out. lol just my 2 cents
