'THE GREAT WALL'
NEW TRAILER AND POSTERS!
A most delicious treat for you this Sunday, my spylings, coming from one of Asia's biggest film makers, visual genius Zhang Yimou who gave the world
such legendary cinematic miracles as Hero, House of the Flying Daggers and Curse of the Golden Flower: his latest fantasy adventure THE GREAT WALL, the biggest movie (by the size of the production and budget) made so far in China (and also his first English language movie), the land of magnificent epic spectacles! Today you will not just feast your eyes on twelve character posters from the movie, but you can also enjoy the latest international trailer for it which lasts, believe it or not, totally epic 9 minutes! Check it out below our premium spotlight.
such legendary cinematic miracles as Hero, House of the Flying Daggers and Curse of the Golden Flower: his latest fantasy adventure THE GREAT WALL, the biggest movie (by the size of the production and budget) made so far in China (and also his first English language movie), the land of magnificent epic spectacles! Today you will not just feast your eyes on twelve character posters from the movie, but you can also enjoy the latest international trailer for it which lasts, believe it or not, totally epic 9 minutes! Check it out below our premium spotlight.
A $135 MILLION MOVIE
Scheduled to warm up the cold winter in cinemas this December in China, most of Asia, most of Europe during January, and then in February in Russia, United Kingdom and United States of America, this
fantasy action movie, which allegedly took about $135 million to be made
is centred on a mystery around the construction of the legendary
Great Wall of China.
Scheduled to warm up the cold winter in cinemas this December in China, most of Asia, most of Europe during January, and then in February in Russia, United Kingdom and United States of America, this
fantasy action movie, which allegedly took about $135 million to be made
is centred on a mystery around the construction of the legendary
Great Wall of China.
1700 YEARS TO BUILD, 5500 MILES LONG! WHAT WERE THEY TRYING TO KEEP OUT?
Set about a 1,000 years into the past the movie stars Matt Damon, Pedro Pascal and Willem Dafoe as a trio of mercenaries from the West who have come to steal gunpowder from the Chinese and maybe a rumoured legendary weapon that they want to use to conquer their
homeland. But when they arrive at THE GREAT WALL they find something they weren’t expecting: As wave after wave of marauding beasts besiege the massive structure, their quest for fortune turns into a
journey toward heroism as they join a huge army of elite warriors to confront this unimaginable and seemingly unstoppable force. The monsters are identified as the Taotie, beasts of great greed from ancient
Chinese mythology. A horde of monsters creep up on the wall every 60 years forcing the army to defend it! And that is how humanity’s greatest fight for survival starts under the rocks of THE GREAT WALL of China!
homeland. But when they arrive at THE GREAT WALL they find something they weren’t expecting: As wave after wave of marauding beasts besiege the massive structure, their quest for fortune turns into a
journey toward heroism as they join a huge army of elite warriors to confront this unimaginable and seemingly unstoppable force. The monsters are identified as the Taotie, beasts of great greed from ancient
Chinese mythology. A horde of monsters creep up on the wall every 60 years forcing the army to defend it! And that is how humanity’s greatest fight for survival starts under the rocks of THE GREAT WALL of China!
ASIAN STARS IN THE CAST
There was a big backlash around the casting of Damon in this movie, which was originally supposed to have a much much better choice of Henry Cavill and Benjamin Walker in the lead roles, but as you can see in the trailer he obviously and thankfully does not take a lot of time
on the big screen in
it. The cast also includes a plethora of big Asian stars lead by Andy
Lau, Tian Jing, Lu Han, Junkai Wang, and they all play leaders of
different armies, equipped with different majestic armours and weapons,
who are stationed below THE GREAT WALL
trying to defend it from the
sneaky green monsters that are attacking them. Including a Blue, all female flying army of lancers! Since the movie had an
international crew, more than 100 on-set translators worked with the
various cast and crew members. Ramin Djawadi, who worked on Game of
Thrones, Warcraft, Pacific Rim, is composing the music!
There was a big backlash around the casting of Damon in this movie, which was originally supposed to have a much much better choice of Henry Cavill and Benjamin Walker in the lead roles, but as you can see in the trailer he obviously and thankfully does not take a lot of time
on the big screen in
it. The cast also includes a plethora of big Asian stars lead by Andy
Lau, Tian Jing, Lu Han, Junkai Wang, and they all play leaders of
different armies, equipped with different majestic armours and weapons,
who are stationed below THE GREAT WALL
trying to defend it from the
sneaky green monsters that are attacking them. Including a Blue, all female flying army of lancers! Since the movie had an
international crew, more than 100 on-set translators worked with the
various cast and crew members. Ramin Djawadi, who worked on Game of
Thrones, Warcraft, Pacific Rim, is composing the music! 
I am super excited with the Great Wall..Look at all those great casts! Zhang Yimou always fascinates me with his works!
ReplyDeleteI only like the Asian cast in it, but I do adore Zhang Yimou, his Curse of the Golden Flower is my fave Asian movie
DeleteWowzers, that is a huge budget!
ReplyDelete-Kati
yes, could feed all the hungry people in Europe
DeleteIf it took so long to build it, how could anyone have been safe during the building of that wall? See, now I will have to watch it.
ReplyDeletepfft nobody is ever safe, with or without a wall.... a piano could fall on your head anytime
DeleteTis fact.
Deletea proven one
DeleteThe Great Wall is a fantastic subject...有意思！
ReplyDeleteYou speak Mandarin, Phillie?
DeleteLove those posters in particular
ReplyDeleteChina always loves character posters and we do too!
DeleteGreat posters and trailer! I can't wait to catch this one, and you know we will because of Jason's boy-crush on Matt. (I know, roll those eyes, Dezzy lol)
ReplyDeletedid you like the female lancer flying squads dressed all in blue in the trailer? I've never seen such an exciting trailer!
DeleteI thought all of the costumes were top notch! Yes, this was one of the more exciting trailers of this year!
DeleteI remember The Huntsman: Winter's War also had an exciting trailer and the movie was almost unwatchable in the end :( Hope this does not prove to be the same
DeleteThat's too bad. I haven't seen The Huntsman yet :( I hate it when a trailer is much better than the actual film. It seems they save the very best parts for the trailer and fill the rest with fluff!
Deleteeverything that was good was put in that trailer
DeleteHow exciting! I love ancient Samurai movies and this sounds fabulous. My boys and I watched a bunch of trailers this weekend and 2017 is full of great expectations!
ReplyDeleteHope you will manage to catch this one!
ReplyDeleteNot sure if this is a theater must see for me but there is surely some cool visuals.
ReplyDeleteexquisitely cool visuals
Delete