Director pleased with Han Geng’s performance in movie ‘Great Detective’
BEIJING: Hong Kong filmmaker Roy Cho has expressed satisfaction with actor Han Geng’s performance in the fantasy- suspense film The Great Detective.
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In the movie, Han portrays a shrewd detective who is annoyingly obsessive about being neat.
Cho and cast members have been promoting the movie in Beijing.
The script had been adapted from Huo Sang Detective Stories by Cheng Xiaoqing, who is widely acknowledged as “the first name in Chinese detective literature”.
Disclosed Cho: “I’ve adapted the central character to be a younger and more fashionable guy. In real life, Han Geng is fashionable, but I particularly appreciate his eye contact which makes him look peculiar.”
Up-and- coming young actor Yin Zheng, veteran actor Zhou Xiaodong and actress Zhang Huiwen, all appear in the film.
It was shot in Prague as well as Shanghai, and is scheduled to be released this summer.