The director, a legendary figure best known in the U.S. for martial arts epics like Hero and House of Flying Daggers (and as the maestro behind the opening ceremonies of the Beijing Olympics), goes on to indicate that while an international co-production creates many challenges, effort was made at all times to preserve a uniquely Chinese voice within the blockbuster trappings: (screenrant.com)
Per Heat Vision, the director behind martial arts epics like Hero and The House of Flying Daggers and the incredible opening ceremony for the 2008 Beijing Olympics is in talks to helm an adaptation of Robert Ludlum's spy novel The Parsifal Mosaic for Universal Pictures. (collider.com)
Before Charlie Ahearn shot his seminal hip - hop film «Wild Style» in 1982, he was directly exposed to the bourgeoning hip - hop, break - dancing and graffiti movement, while shooting his super-8 martial arts epic «The Deadly Art of Survival» around the projects (next door to his apartment) in the Lower East Side in 1979. (tubitv.com)