The British director Simon West, who made Angelina Jolie-starring “Lara Croft: Tomb Raider,” is now co-directing a Chinese tomb-raiding film. “The Legend Hunters” is the next instalment in the “Moj…
Pictures and Beijing-based Saints Entertainment, the film is set for release next July and stars A-list male leads Zhang Hanyu and Jiang Wu and Hong Kong actress Celina Jade, who crossed to the big time in “Wolf Warrior 2.”
Screenwriter Li Yifan co-directs alongside West, helping to ground the film in a Chinese sensibility. The film references elements from ancient Chinese shamanic funeral traditions, and “we were worried it’d be a bit hard for Simon to get on his own,” Eryong said.The eight-book online novel series by Zhang Muye has been adapted into numerous film and TV titles and sparked a whole tomb-raiding genre in China, which has seen hits and bombs.
Eryong said that they had to work to distinguish their version from Wuershan’s. “His took place underground, and ours does too. But there’s a lot more above ground – things that happen in Europe and so on.”
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