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Edko Films revealed astatine Filmart coming that 10 award-winning actors – including awesome Hong Kong stars Chow Yun Fat, Aaron Kwok, Tony Leung Ka Fai and Louis Koo – person joined nan formed of its highly-anticipated upcoming action thriller Cold War 1994.
International stars Aidan Gillen (Game Of Thrones) and Hugh Bonneville (Downton Abbey) person besides joined nan formed arsenic nan caput of MI6 Asia-Pacific and a British Cabinet Minister.
The prequel to deed constabulary procedurals Cold War and Cold War 2, which together grossed complete $13M (HK$100M) astatine the Hong Kong box office, was presented to Filmart guests by executive shaper Bill Kong, shaper Ivy Ho and head Longman Leung, on pinch nan main previously-announced formed of Terrance Lau, Tse Kwan Ho and Louise Wong.
Daniel Wu besides stars successful nan film, making a much-anticipated return to Hong Kong cinema aft a six-year absence. Golden Horse Best Actors winners Wu Kang Ren and Tse Kwan Ho are playing a powerful father-and-son duo, while Louise Wong and Fish Liew play cardinal female roles.
Tony Leung Ka Fai besides attended nan property convention for an affectional on-stage reunion pinch Terrance Lau – Lau plays nan younger type of Leung’s characteristic M.B. Lee, a elder serviceman successful Hong Kong’s Organized Crime and Triad Bureau (OCTB). Chow Yun Fat and Aaron Kwok are besides reprising their roles from nan erstwhile films. Louis Koo is making his debut successful nan franchise playing Chief Executive-elect Adrian Yip Shun-ting.
Edko noted that nan ensemble formed marks 1 of nan biggest gatherings of acting talent successful Hong Kong cinema history.
While a merchandise day has not been announced, 2 prequels were changeable backmost and backmost – Cold War 1994 and Cold War 1995 – and are presently successful post-production.
Kong described nan movie arsenic much than conscionable a prequel: “While sequels move nan communicative forward, this prequel goes deeper. We are returning to nan very root of nan Cold War universe, revealing really nan powerfulness reshuffle successful 1994 planted nan seeds for everything that followed.”
Leung added that clues to nan 1994 storyline had been cautiously planted since nan first film: “Beneath nan aboveground calm of that era laic treacherous undercurrents. Through a grander communicative canvas, audiences will yet witnesser nan existent origins of nan Cold War world and uncover answers to galore long-standing mysteries.”
