The Wretched

[JohnDRobinson]

Chow Yun-Fat and zombies? I am so there.

The Wretched Offical Site (http://www.sheerfilms.com/current/features/wretched/)

[jackskellington]

What's this movie about and who is Chow Yun-Fat? The name is familiar but I can't seem to place her/him. I'm way too lazy to download the screenplay and read it so maybe someone can give me the summarized version?!!

[Pain]

Chow Yun Fat was in The Killer and A Better Tomorrow, and was also in Couching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and Bulletproof Monk.

Here's a bit more about the movie

http://www.moviesonline.ca/film1250.htm

[jackskellington]

Sounds like a great original idea for a movie!!! I just hope it isn't a martial arts fest like alot of movies end up. Seems like if you are either dead or fighting the dead here lately you are immediately a kung fu master. The worst was, of course, House of the Dead which had preppie wannabe ravers keenly disguised as jocks and cheerleaders doing martial arts.

[!Vision!]

With Chow Yun Fat, I doubt it would be anything but a kung fu fest.

[JohnDRobinson]

With Chow Yun Fat, I doubt it would be anything but a kung fu fest.

Considering Yun-Fat doesn't know kung-fu, or any martial arts, I highly doubt it.

[Pain]

Good point JDR.

I think this sounds like quite a promising movie.

[Dr. Freudstein]

Considering Yun-Fat doesn't know kung-fu, or any martial arts, I highly doubt it.Yet somehow he managed to pull off a fair impersonation of the Wudan style in Wo Hu Cang Long (Crouching Tiger...), so it's not like a Martial Arts film would be out of the question.


The synopsis of The Wretched however run thus;

Chow Yun-Fat has been cast as the lead in Andrew Goth's "The Wretched," an original fusion of gothic western and classic horror. Yun-Fat plays Rellik, a bounty hunter of zombies. He introduces his apprentice, Twenty-One, to a dangerous world where zombie outlaws travel the earth, avoiding capture and incarceration in the prisoner catacombs for the Undead. When a wagon train of misguided travelers find the Monastery and unknowingly release the Undead locked within, Rellik and Twenty-One must deal with a serious jailbreak. Production is slated to start on location in New Mexico this June.

[JohnDRobinson]

I think it's going to be more of a gunplay movie. I really doubt any martial arts will play a part in this movie.

[Divided Soul]

Ahh Guns.... works for me..... I'm there

[JohnDRobinson]

A teaser poster for "The Wretched."

It's not that good but at least it's something.

http://www.horrorchannel.com/dread/images/news2/wretchedtease2.jpg

[Bad Zombie Night]

With Chow Yun Fat, I doubt it would be anything but a kung fu fest.

What do you need Kung-Fun for, when you can have cold steel instead. ;-) :guns:

[MonsterHunter]

This movie sounds like a dream come true! Zombie movie meets Spaghetti Western staring Chow Yun-fat!
This got cult movie written all over it!

:clap:

I have not seen anything of Andrew Goth past work, is he a good director?

[Vash]

A teaser poster for "The Wretched."

It's not that good but at least it's something.

http://www.horrorchannel.com/dread/images/news2/wretchedtease2.jpg


I love the poster.

[jackskellington]

Very cool poster work!! Does this director have anything good to his credit?

[Divided Soul]

I love the poster.
Yeah It has the whole Good, the Bad, the Ugly feel....

[Cosmoline]

Nothing yet on IMDB, and it looks like Chow Yun-Fat has been booked out to 2007, so they may need to get someone less expensive. As much as I love the awesome gunfests of "Hard Boiled" and "A Better Tomorrow II" I have to say I think his best work is behind him. He's a lot more valuable since he left Hong Kong and they just don't risk him in cool scenes with 500 squibs exploding around him while he flies backwards down the stairs firing off two pistols at once.

Plus, I'd rather see a more traditional Western actor like Sam Elliot than an import.

[Bad Zombie Night]

The official web site hasn't been updated since May... Hmmm... I wonder where this one is going. :roll:

[B00Ne]

That poster looks so cool, but I personally don't like Chow Yun Fat. Did anyone see Bulletproof Monk? It was pretty horrible.

I would rather see a no-name north american actor play that role, so that there'd be more in the budget for fx and stuff.

[zombie2005]

oh hell no, I ain't buying it, I ain't renting it, I dont even want to think its name.

the director and writter ought to get a napoleon dynamite slap for this silly :poo:

[Propaganda13]

That poster looks so cool, but I personally don't like Chow Yun Fat. Did anyone see Bulletproof Monk? It was pretty horrible.

I would rather see a no-name north american actor play that role, so that there'd be more in the budget for fx and stuff.

Chow Yun Fat + foreign film = :clap:
The Killer, Hard Boiled, A Better Tomorrow, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon

Chow Yun Fat + Hollywood = not that good
Replacement Killers, The Corruptor, Bulletproof Monk

John Woo has also had mixed results from going "Hollywood".

When I think Westerns, I don't think Asian, but that's the type of thinking that screwed Bruce Lee out of Kung-Fu.(I'm not sure if that was a good thing or a bad thing for him though)

[JohnDRobinson]

According to the companies website....this flick is no longer in production. Me sad.

[Zen Buddakhan]

* Off-topic-
Who and where did you get that Sig JDR?
They sure look like a couple of beauties! :)

[secondstoreykid]

That sucks if it was cancelled, it looked ****ing badass...

[Divided Soul]

Damn, I was looking forward to this one.