Remake of Stephen Chow's Flirting Scholar to Stream on Youku

Announced on its 25th anniversary this year, the comedy film Flirting Scholar is getting a remake that will stream exclusively on Youku in time for Chinese New Year. If you guys remember, Flirting Scholar was released back in 1993 and starred Stephen Chow and Gong Li. 

Producer Wong Jing has recently uploaded sneak peeks of the pictorials taken for the new remake. He also commented that this remake is more developed and poses a new challenge for the filmmakers as the audience is now different. He said that the  biggest feature of the remake is that you won't see Tang Bohu and Qiu Xiang. Those are the main characters of the story, so we may have to take what he says with a grain of salt! It could be that he simply means there will be no Stephen Chow and Gong Li. 

The cast will include Benny Chan, Lam Chi-chung, Natalis Chan, Cheng Pei-pei, Kingdom Yuen, Sabrina Qiu and newcomers like Zhen Qi and Yun Qianqian.

Natalis Chan, Cheng Pei-pei and Kingdom Yuen will reprise their roles from the original movie. Benny Chan's role, however, is still a mystery. I won't be surprised if he is the new Tang Bohu.

The first Flirting Scholar will be a tough act to follow. They made a Flirting Scholar 2 in 2010 starring Huang Xiaoming but it didn't do so well. Stephen Chow's classic Flirting Scholar puts pressure on the cast and crew of Wong Jing's version as I believe nothing can beat the original. But for now, we will wait and hope this one lives up to it at least. 

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Disney's Mulan Cast and Crew In High Spirits After Wrapping Filming

Let's get down to business to defeat the Huns, dun dun dun... 

In spite of the directional changes from the animated movie, I'm still looking forward to Disney's live-action remake of Mulan 花木兰 starring Crystal Liu which officially wrapped after months of filming. The remake is said to have a staggering budget of $290 million which makes it one of the most expensive movies to be led by a female director, Niko Caro. 

Although the cast and crew already had a wrap party to celebrate, it's not clear whether more filming will be done because it was initially reported that landscapes from China will be featured. Nevertheless, this production has one of the most epic ensembles. 

Action legends Donnie Yen and Jet Li have known each other for nearly 40 years, and they work together for the fourth time. Jet Li once shared in an interview that he hadn't planned to join Mulan. The main reason he decided to take the role was because of his daughter. 

Donnie Yen is excited about working for the first time with Gong Li.

New Zealand native Yoson An and American actor and musician Jimmy Wong took to social media to express their sentiments. Jimmy Wong even added that he can't wait to see the movie for the first time himself. As a fan of Disney, I too, am very excited to see it on the big screen, but we're all gonna have to be a little bit more patient since it will still be over a year before the movie is set to release in March 2020. Maybe I'll just watch Lion King live-action remake in the meantime.

More pictures of the cast which also include veteran actress Cheng Pei-pei.

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