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Author of the indispensable Hong Kong Action Cinema
(Overlook Press, can we have an updated version now please?)
He wish Mark as the villain in the Wong Fei-hung
QUOTE FROM THE ARTICLE:
RD: Wong Fei-hung has been the subject of hundreds of movies. If you were to direct a Wong Fei-hung film, how would you approach it? Who would be your Wong Fei- hung?
BL: To answer your last question first, definitely Lau Kar-leung, who, believe it or not, has never played Wong Fei-hung. I'd construct it like most of the old Wong Fei-hung films. We'd see the great master in action at the beginning, and then he'd disappear while his students got into trouble, and then he'd come back to save the day in the final reel. I'd get these bright young guys like Andy On and Vanness Wu to play the students, and have someone like Mark Dacascos as the villain. Hey, now you've got me thinking
Author of the indispensable Hong Kong Action Cinema
(Overlook Press, can we have an updated version now please?)
He wish Mark as the villain in the Wong Fei-hung
QUOTE FROM THE ARTICLE:
RD: Wong Fei-hung has been the subject of hundreds of movies. If you were to direct a Wong Fei-hung film, how would you approach it? Who would be your Wong Fei- hung?
BL: To answer your last question first, definitely Lau Kar-leung, who, believe it or not, has never played Wong Fei-hung. I'd construct it like most of the old Wong Fei-hung films. We'd see the great master in action at the beginning, and then he'd disappear while his students got into trouble, and then he'd come back to save the day in the final reel. I'd get these bright young guys like Andy On and Vanness Wu to play the students, and have someone like Mark Dacascos as the villain. Hey, now you've got me thinking
