NEW BEGINNING
Posted by Todd Brown at 7:15pm.
Posted in Trailer Alerts , Martial Arts, Action, Asia, UK, Ireland, Australia & New Zealand.
Some may remember director Chee Keong Cheung from his work on independent and fiercely low budget fight flick Underground which hit DVD last year and won a good amount of attention for what Cheung and company managed to accomplish on a tiny budget. Underground certainly wasn’t breaking any new ground and it had some significant weaknesses but there was clearly some talent at play there and a good amount of promise for the future. Well, the future is now and we’ve just been passed the brand new trailer for Cheung’s new film - the martial arts drama Bodyguard: A New Beginning.
‘A New Beginning’ focuses around the story of Leung, the bodyguard of a Chinese Triad boss, Wong, to whom his loyalty is unrivaled. Living in Hong Kong, Wong requests that his bodyguard travel to the UK to protect a young British woman, whose true identity is known only by Wong himself. Even his own errant son, Yuen, is kept in the dark, which leads to a betrayal that threatens to destroy the family and all that his father has worked hard to protect.
Fight fans are going to recognize a few familiar faces in there and the fight work is obviously very good but what’s really going to stand out are the huge strides forward in story telling and cinematography. There has obviously been more attention paid to story this time out and DPs Matthew Beecroft and Henry Chung obviously know what they’re doing behind the camera. This thing looks absolutely gorgeous. Very, very nice.
July 07 last year I had the pleasure of working on UK film director Chee Keong Leung on his new film BODYGUARD A NEW BEGINNING. Great experience working with my old friend MIke Leeder and many more. I storyboarded the film with my team, assisted in locations and played the role of Cary Tagawas bodyguard RAMIREZ.
Vincent .......something or other . He did Dragon Tiger Gate I think.
Cary is great in it . Carl and his father both give good performances.
The production value looks really good overall .
The director Chee is a smart cat - very talented.
