Source: CCTV.com

05-16-2007 11:38

Award winning Hong Kong director Peter Chan is taking his new film "The Warlords" to Cannes.

The Chinese war epic with its 40 million Hong Kong dollar budget, is to be shown at the Cannes festival, which gets underway on Wednesday, seven months before its release in China. The new movie is led by martial arts super star Jet Li, along with Andy Lau and Takeshi Kaneshiro. Li and Lau play the central characters - farmers turned mercenaries in the story all about brotherly betrayal during 19th century civil unrest in China.

"The Warlords" is a departure for Chan, who is used to making softer more feminine films. Chinese audiences will get to see it in December this year.

 

Editor:Liu Fang