SHOOTING THE FAT: On the ‘Shanghai’ set with Hong Kong’s greatest actor.
It’s incredible enough to be standing within 15 feet of Chow Yun-fat, more amazing still to work on a film with him and yet more stunning to see him with a gun in his hand. For almost a decade, fans...MORE ›
A VISITOR FROM THE MILKY WAY: Johnnie To drops by the ‘Shanghai’ set.
I’m back in Bangkok for the shooting of TWC’s period thriller ‘Shanghai’. Just a few weeks ago, our back-lot was open land where the water buffalo roamed. Now 1940s Shanghai streets lead off in...MORE ›
BRUCE LEE AND ME (part two)
Media Asia giving me access to the Bruce Lee archive was like giving Dracula the keys to the blood bank. I was IN! The crypt keeper down at the vault where MA stored the materials it had inherited from...MORE ›
BRUCE LEE AND ME: Remembering the Dragon (part one)
Today marks the anniversary of Bruce Lee’s untimely passing, and I’m attending an exhibition of memorabilia staged by the Hong Kong Bruce Lee Club. (That’s my son Calvin doing his best ‘wa-tahhh!’...MORE ›
ROLLING WITH THE REAL INDY : On location with Vic Armstrong
Last time I was on a major movie location in Bangkok, it was for The Medallion, then called ‘Highbinders’, and I was working with Jackie Chan and Sammo Hung, two men who defined (and then redefined)...MORE ›
THE JET LANDS IN BANGKOK : Meeting the master.
I arrive in Thailand for our film ‘Shanghai’ which, for reasons too convoluted to go into here, ended up shooting in London and Bangkok rather than in the eponymous Chinese city. I knew that the film’s...MORE ›
