Your trusted spy was the first one to inform you that China was turning
Giacomo Puccini's
TURANDOT opera into a film starring
Guan Xiaotong and
Dylan Sprouse and now we are also among the first ones to present you with the first trailer and character posters for this extravaganza of an action adventure film! The movie, which was produced under the helm of
Xiaolong Zheng, also stars legendary French stars
Sophie Marceau and
Vincent Perez alongside Asian stars
Hu Jun, Collin Chou and
Lin Siyi! The film which was shot back in 2018 had its world premiere over at Shanghai
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Vincent Perez and Sophie Marceau also star in the film
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International Film Festival back in June, but does not still have an official release date in China nor rest of the world. Check out the trailer below and tell us what you think.
a fantasy romance, follows Princess Turandot (
Guan
Xiaotong), who is cursed by a mysterious power emanating from three
Mazovian bracelets that
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Xialong Zheng directed the epic fantasy adventure
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were given to her as birthday gifts. The life
draining effects of the bracelets cause the princess to become cruel,
and gradually she loses her humanity.
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The film is based on one of Puccini's most famous operas
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Foreign princes who
come to court her must solve three riddles, one for each bracelet, and
only then will she be freed from the power of the bracelets. In the
event any of the questions is answered incorrectly, the attempted solver
would
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Turandot was shot back in 2018 and then went into postproduction
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be put to death. One day, Calaf
(Dylan Sprouse), an ordinary
citizen, risks his life to answer the riddles to save her and
inadvertently uncovers his own extraordinary past.
Not exactly my film, but this is so interesting.
ReplyDeleteWe do like Puccini's operas and this one has a nice story indeed! And I do ever so love me Asian films which cast European stars.
DeleteThe costumes are stunning and so intricate! The plot of the movie sounds interesting, but I'm not so sure about Dylan Sprouse in that role...
ReplyDeleteYes, the casting of him boggles the mind, he ain't exactly pretty, charismatic nor overly known and popular, they could have found so many other amazing young actors.
DeleteI question why Sprouse was cast in this role. I suppose I have a hard time seeing either brother in action roles after their goofy Disney days.
ReplyDeleteI've read somewhere that he is producing, so he probably gave the role to himself lol Oh, they were terrible both in that Disney series and in Friends.
DeleteThat would explain how he was cast then. I imagine the movie will be lacking with him as the lead.
DeleteMost probably, this is why it hasn't been released in like four years now.
DeleteTurkish governor Tv (TRT-1) often play "Japanese traditional or religious fİlm series" but we dont like them. But this one is from China. I have no idea about it. Costumes look nice.
ReplyDeleteI don't think I've seen a lot of Japanese things, I often wonder what kind of movies they shoot, we mostly hear of Chinese and Korean ones.
DeleteWe have had Korean ones since 2018 and they are amazing (such as Empress Ki). Bye the way i haven't remembered the name of the Japanese film series because i didn't watch. If i get one's name i will inform you. But they were really boring!
DeleteI can imagine.
DeleteI like Sophie :D
ReplyDeleteShe still looks young.
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