Hey folks, Harry here.... seems Ang Lee's already got the folks working away on the sequel/prequel scripts to CROUCHING TIGER HIDDEN DRAGON! Meanwhile, word has come into me today that THE INCREDIBLE HULK script that Ang is going to be directing (if the gods are kind) is remarkable, but expensive. Word reached me via a spy known only as Houdini. Houdini is not a comic book fan, he isn't intimately familiar with THE INCREDIBLE HULK through comics or the television show. He was reading it with the most basic knowledge of what the Hulk is... Basically big green and really really strong and mean.... Well, his impression of the script was that it was very very good and would be fun as hell, but that it was a way expensive script (aka HUGE ACTION). Now hopefully UNIVERSAL is aware that this is an expensive film and is willing to bankroll it unlike those cowards at FOX that won't fully finance a badass FANTASTIC FOUR movie and instead send the project to its continual grave by forced BUDGET DRAFTS... sigh... breathe Harry... sigh.... Here's Ye with the latest on the adventures of Li Mu Bai and that Green Destiny Sword...
Hi, Harry!
Ye is here!
Because Academy Awards nominee screenwriter Wang Hui Ling is busying on two other projects, writing of the script for the preqeul is currently done by Sia Mei Hua. However, her idea for the beginning has been killed by Ang Lee. According to Sia, the film will start with the Green Destiny Sword being unearthed followed by a struggle of controlling the sword involving many masters, including Li Mu Bai's master, Southern Crane (Jiang Nan He). There will be a heavy fighting scene in the beginning. But Ang Lee said it was too "cliché".
According producer Hsu Li-Kong, Universal Studios is considering adding a Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon section at one of its scene park (not sure which one is).
The prequel will be based on part II of the Crane Crane Precious Sword Crouching Iron Pentalogy (as Crane - Iron Pentalogy for short), Precious Sword, Gold Hairpin. It will tell the story of Li Mu Bai (played by Chow Yun-Fat in CTHD), Yu Shu Lien (played by Michelle Yeoh in CTHD), Yu Shu Lien's fiancé Meng Si Zhao, and prostitute Xie Cui Xian. Li Mu Bai is in love with Yu Shu Lien, fiancée of his sworn brother Meng Si Zhao, and Xie Cui Xian, who looks like Yu Shu Lien.
Ang Lee has said, he will present the "spirit of Wuxia (Warriorship)" in the prequel, which cannot be found in Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon.
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Ye Meng
