After 3D remake of the 1989 Hong Kong martial arts film The Iceman Cometh Donnie Yen will reunite with his Bodyguards And Assassins director Teddy Chen for a high-octane action thriller One Person’s Martial Arts Circle.
The movie follows Donnie Yen as a top-notch martial arts instructor at the Hong Kong Police Academy who is imprisoned for accidentally killing a man. Yen may not be able to stay behind bars for long as shortly after his arrest, a deranged killer (played by Wang Baoqiang) begins targeting the best and brightest martial arts fighters in Hong Kong.
Stop, doesn’t it sound familiar to you? …Bloodmoon with Gary Daniels and Darren Shahlavi? Anyway to see Donnie beating up everyone around is always a pleasure, but why Wang Baoqiang and not Collin Chou?
Wang Baoqiang
When Wang was 8 years old when the Shaolin Temple movie starring Jet Li was shown in his village. Film inspired him to become a martial arts star. Wang insisted on going to a Shaolin Temple though his family opposed it. He believed that once he learns martial arts he could be a film star. 6 years later, Wang Baoqiang hadn’t starred in any films but possessed excellent Kung Fu skills. Many people had told him that only in Beijing he have the opportunity to become a film star. With only 500 RMB (about 70 US dollars) Wang said goodbye to his family and headed to Beijing at age 14 on his own. Wang Baoqiang debut role was in the Blind Shaft, for which he shared the Best New Performer prize at the 2003 Golden Horse Awards with Megan Tzengwon. The same role also won him the Best Actor prize at the 2003 Deauville Asian Film Festival and 2004 Golden Kinnaree Award (Bangkok International Film Festival).
source: cityonfire
