Stephen Chow to Produce Animated CJ7 Sequel
With Stephen Chow’s involvement in The Green Hornet still up in the air, and the previously announced sequel to Kung Fu Hustle still seemingly on hold, a lot of people are wondering what the Hong Kong writer/director/actor might be cooking up next. Would you believe… an animated sequel to his last film, CJ7?
According to Variety, a follow-up to CJ7 is currently being set up with Chow on board as producer and HK director Toe Yuen in the driver’s seat. The cast of the original will return to provide voices, but the story will apparently be “completely new”.
I still haven’t seen CJ7, partially because the reviews didn’t sound very promising, and partially because Reed Farrington actually liked it (I kid). I know that it involves a father buying a toy for his son that turns out to be a cute alien creature. It certainly sounds suitable for animation, but something tells me the sequel will have an even harder time winning over North American audiences. Check out a clip from Toe Yuen’s previous animated film McDull, prince de la bun, embedded below. Uh… yeah.
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For the most part, I’m not a fan of animation. Forgive my ignorance, but what Chinese animated movies have an international following? Is “McDull, Prince de la Bun” popular?
I can see how the CJ7 type of comedy would be suitable for animation. What made the live-action CJ7 so enjoyable for me was the performance of the little girl as the kid even when I watched without any sub-titles. I’m still planning on purchasing the English version DVD of CJ7 someday to find out what the characters were saying.
Posted by Reed Farrington on June 9th, 2009Hey, Reed,
You are really ignorant on Chinese animation subject. Our animation production was great before 90’s (actually the man who started the Japanese animation industry Osamu Tezuka is hugely influenced by Chinese master Wan Brothers), definitely on par with the level of PIXAR or Miyazaki; then the industry quickly died, and now the animation features are unbelievable cheesy and all copycat of Japanese or American stuff.
If you guys have any interest to watch a trully chinese animation, I won’t be more recommending a masterpiece from 1964 called “Havoc in Heaven” (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Havoc_in_Heaven, find this actually could be brought in US,http://www.cgcmall.com/Uproar_in_Heaven_DVD_p/dv00swk1.htm), the story is about the legendary monkey king (who has also been featured earlier this year in a rubbish hollywood movie) rebel against the mighty emperor. The animation and art design in this movie is fantastic and truly traditional, while the story suprisingly is full of Punk spirit (of course back then it’s more read as communism revolution meaning). Also the score is gorgeous in chinese opera style (I’m actually not keen in chinese traditional music, and more in to western classical or rock music). Deep in heart, this is my favourite animation movie of all time, maybe only the movie “laputa” by master Miyazaki could come close. If any chance, go check it out!
Posted by Xu on June 9th, 2009Leave a Reply