Kung Fu movie open audition

"KUNG FU" DIRECTOR IN LOCAL VISIT

When the director and the producers for the movie "Kung Fu" arrives in the SAR over the weekend, they will be greeted by reporters as well as aspiring actors who dream of becoming Hollywood's next action superstar. The filmmakers will spend the most part of their short visit in Hong Kong auditioning candidates for the leading male role in their new film.

On the coming Monday (December 17th), the director Max Makowski ("One Last Dance") and his colleagues will hold an open walk-in audition at Pure Fitness located on the 4th floor of Two IFC Mall, Financial Street, Central, Hong Kong. If you are male, aged twenty to thirty-five, a handsome mix of East (Chinese/Asian) meets West (American), and speaks fluent American English, then you should find the time to pay them a visit. This might be the big time break you have been waiting for all your life.

Warner Brothers and Legendary Pictures are teaming up to bring the classic seventies television series "Kung Fu" to the movie screen. The original television series was first broadcast on ABC in 1972, and the program producers at one time actually contemplated recruiting the iconic Bruce Lee as its male lead before finally settling for David Carradine for the role of his career. This time around, the movie director and the producers are again turning their eyes to Asia in their quest for the right talent to play the role of a young Asian American monk from China's legendary Shaolin Temple.

The plot of the film is set in late nineteenth century. Kwai Chang Caine (nicknamed Grasshopper for his agility by his elderly mentor) was a Shaolin monk trained in kung fu skills and steeped in Zen Buddhist philosophy. He fled China to escape the assassins sent by the corrupt, oppressive Qing emperor and landed himself in America's Old Wild West. Once there, his journey in search of his long lost half brother Danny led him to rediscover his family history and put him in constant danger, but time and again his Buddhist beliefs and his kung fu skills helped him escape without harm. Until one day, he came across the challenge of his life ...

The film is scheduled for production in Mainland China in the first quarter of 2008. The man the director and the producers are looking for should be strong, athletic and have the right looks. Kung fu skills are not a must although training or experience in martial arts, gymnastics or ballet is a definite plus. If you have what it takes to carry the part, you can drop by on Monday between 8:30 am to 11:00 am, and 2:00 pm to 5:00 pm. Remember to bring along the script for a one-minute English monologue of your own choice, your resume plus recent color photographs of yourself.

For more information about auditions scheduled for Hong Kong, Vancouver and Los Angeles, please visit the film project's official Website at "http://www.kungfucasting.com".

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[daiatran]

this shiet was stupid

[PPKLU]

you don't speak fluent english....heavy accent

[SenMuJie]

@PPKLU fluent, not native

[peteypedro9]

haha dis nigga looks like Asian bob sagat

[dantespawn666]

@PPKLU you dont need a shitty american accent to speak fluent english

[metaphysia7]

Was this film canceled? I thought we would have heard more on it by now or at least it should have been in theaters by now.

[metaphysia7]

How about Russell Wong?

[TheRHINOS1]

@HuangKaiVun U 4got Chow-yun fat & Sammo hung

[TheRHINOS1]

@PPKLU He speaks fluent English... The meaning of being fluent in a language, is knowing the vocabulary, which he does - accent has nothing to do with it

[Altezza0]

All these comments suck so bad.

[CruelMan84]

i couldn't make out if it was chinese he was speaking or english :S