Actor Lu Han set to battle alien invaders with Shu Qi in ‘Shanghai Fortress’
BEIJING: Singer-actor Lu Han is set to battle alien invaders alongside Taiwanese actress Shu Qi in Shanghai Fortress.
It is to be adapted from the 2006 best- selling novel Once Upon a Time in Shanghai.
In the movie, he will star as a college student-turned-warrior.
In the film, Shanghai is the last hope for humankind as it fights alien invaders.
Director Teng Huatao, known for online adaptations such as Love Is Not Blind, said the crew prepared the project for five years and worked on the script for three years.
In addition to Shanghai Fortress, Tencent Pictures also plans to make Project 20,000 Miles, a time- and- space travel adventure story set in China.
Lu Chuan, known for Kekexili: Mountain Patrol ( 2004) and City of Life and Death ( 2009), will direct the sci-fi movie, which uses talent from Hollywood.
Lu Han disclosed that the script had been revised three times.
Meanwhile, Taiwan director Su Chao-pin, known for the award-winning martial arts movie Reign of Assassins ( 2010), has been cautious when speaking about his new sci-fi film, Dark Side of the Moon.
He said: “I wrote the tale around 10 years ago, but I didn’t expect that the movie would be made.”
But new director Zhang Xiaobei is more forthcoming about his maiden feature Pathfinder.
The film, shot in the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region and Beijing, recently concluded filming and will be released in 2018.
He said the film is based on a popular animated series with the same title, and is about a group of Chinese stranded on a vast desert on a remote planet.
On making the movie, Star Wars fan Zhang said: “We tried many things. And these things will help the development of China’s sci-fi film industry.”
Shanghai Fortress is slated to premiere on the Chinese mainland in 2019.