JACKIE CHAN IN 'SKIPTRACE'
In short movie news, comedy action SKIPTRACE, which already has Jackie Chan and Bingbing Fan in the lead roles, has just added Seann William Scott to the cast as well. Based on Jackie Chan's idea the film follows Hong Kong detective Bennie Black who has been searching for crime boss Victor Wong for ten years. His search escalates when his young niece Bai (Bingbing Fan) gets herself into trouble with the crime syndicate, forcing him to call on an American Gambler named Connor Watts (Seann William Scott) to help him in his search. The producers are counting on the comedic chemistry between Chan and Seann.
TOM HARDY IS ELTON JOHN
Meanwhile, the latest news say that Tom Hardy has taken the lead role in ROCKETMAN, the biographical movie about Elton John! It was previously revealed that Elton John has imagined his biopic in MOULIN ROUGE movie style, with visual splendour and tones of his greatest hits which he will be rerecording for this occasion. Hardy is an extremely versatile actor, and it will be interesting to see how he switches from his upcoming MAD MAX role to playing a gay singer of tender love songs with extremely eccentric fashion style. Justin Timberlake was the previous candidate for the role and he even played Elton in one of his videos.
In short movie news, comedy action SKIPTRACE, which already has Jackie Chan and Bingbing Fan in the lead roles, has just added Seann William Scott to the cast as well. Based on Jackie Chan's idea the film follows Hong Kong detective Bennie Black who has been searching for crime boss Victor Wong for ten years. His search escalates when his young niece Bai (Bingbing Fan) gets herself into trouble with the crime syndicate, forcing him to call on an American Gambler named Connor Watts (Seann William Scott) to help him in his search. The producers are counting on the comedic chemistry between Chan and Seann.
TOM HARDY IS ELTON JOHN
Meanwhile, the latest news say that Tom Hardy has taken the lead role in ROCKETMAN, the biographical movie about Elton John! It was previously revealed that Elton John has imagined his biopic in MOULIN ROUGE movie style, with visual splendour and tones of his greatest hits which he will be rerecording for this occasion. Hardy is an extremely versatile actor, and it will be interesting to see how he switches from his upcoming MAD MAX role to playing a gay singer of tender love songs with extremely eccentric fashion style. Justin Timberlake was the previous candidate for the role and he even played Elton in one of his videos.
LOST FOR WORDS TRAILER
SEAN FARIS & GRACE HUANG
And the only clip I have for you today is the trailer for touching and sensual romantic drama LOST FOR WORDS, a Chinese film which is 
currently playing in US cinemas too. The multi-lingual, cross-cultural production stars Sean Faris (Never Back Down), Grace Huang (The Man With The Iron Fists), Will Yun Lee (The Wolverine, Hawaii Five-0), Terence Yin (Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life) and Hong Kong actress Joman Chiang (Fog, The Drunkard). Amid the sweeping cityscape of cosmopolitan Hong Kong, Michael Vance (Sean Faris), a decorated ex-Marine meets Anna Zhou (Grace Huang), a dancer from Beijing. Against mounting cultural and religious pressure, the star-crossed lovers risk it all in pursuit of true love!
I know the name Elton John, but after that, I'm out.
ReplyDeleteSnow, snow, snow here last night and today. Looks wonderful. Took some pictures for my next post.
oh, and we have something very much similar to summer, Indian summer with 28*C today outside, even though we had minus degrees just two weeks ago.... Weather changes here like a moody old lady....
DeleteI laughed at your last line.
Delete'tis true :)
DeleteI like Tom Hardy, but it will be hard to imagine him as Elton John. He always plays the tough guy....I might not know as much about Elton John as previously thought!
ReplyDeletehey, Dave, missed you here!
DeleteYep, I can't imagine Hardy as Elton either, they have no resemblance physically...... If he can play Elton, than Chris Evans can play me :)
First you tell us there is going to be a biopic of Feddie Mercury and now Elton John. My Gawd Dezzy, my heart can't take it!!!!!
ReplyDeleteyou no likey? :) Fingers crossed we don't have biopics on Madonna and similar irritating wenches....
DeleteAre you kidding?????? I adore Sir Elton!!!!!!
DeleteHe does have good songs! And I loved it when he trashed Madonna and gave her a lesson to remember :)
DeleteLost for words, love this story , a new Romeo and Juliet in China .
ReplyDeleteCheers
I love it too, Vincent!
DeleteRocket... man... I don't see it, but Hollyweird knows what they are doing!! and a simple "hellll'oooo" to Lea!!
ReplyDeleteI wonder why does Elton call himself a Rocketman?
DeleteI love the tráiler of Lost of words!! xo
ReplyDeletelove it too, Gloria :)
DeleteStrangely, I'm intrigued by the story premise for The Lobster. That could be interesting. And Elton John's life is probably crazy enough to fill an entire mini-series with jaw-dropping moments. :)
ReplyDeleteThere is nothing me loves more than a good weird dystopian story on film :) I'd actually love to live in a dystopian world....
DeleteI wonder if Nikita will appear in Elton's film LOL
Have to check out that trailer later ~ But Tom as Elton should be interesting to see ~ Ingriuing lobster plot smiles ~
ReplyDeleteI think you would like that trailer, Grace, it's very sensual
DeleteI've read about Tom Hardy playing Elton John. There's no resemblance whatsoever, but then again, Tom Hardy can play ANYTHING.
ReplyDeletemaybe next could be Melissa McCarthy playing Madonna, she's good actress too :)
DeleteLost for Words looks like a really sweet love story.
ReplyDeleteI like it too!
DeleteTom hardy as Elton John? Hmm, I'll be interested to see that. Elton John is rather inimitable.
ReplyDeleteagreed, Marcy :)
Deletewow at Lea Seydoux
ReplyDeleteexactly :)
DeleteSeann Williams Scott still works? Mind Blowing. I haven't seen anything he's done since his days of playing Stiffler!
ReplyDeleteI haven't either, but he looks better now than before :)
DeleteLost for Words sounds amazing! Must check that out.
ReplyDeleteI like that one too, Julz
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