Uber-producer and cult horror figurehead Roger Corman - whose projects include everything from the original Little Shop of Horrors through Hollywood Boulevard and so much more - has helped launch the careers of everyone from Jack Nicholson, James Cameron, Don the Dragon Wilson and others has a new project in the works shooting in Southern China as I write this.
Fists of the Dragon, is currently shooting at Ace Studios China with Anthony Szeto (Jackie Chan’s Wushu) at the helm, and fight choreography being provided by Maria Tran,Trung Ly, Christopher Pang ('Tomorrow When the World Began') and Joshua Tieu (Hit Girls, Maximum Choppage, Enter the Dojo). The film, set to shoot through January and February, with some reported 17hr-day shoots, is an action thriller starring newcomer Juju Chan, MMA Champion Josh Thompson, and Daniel Whyte and is the second Corman project to film in China following the as yet unreleased The Haunted, a ghost story set in Beijing’s Forbidden City.
