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Shanghai Knights (aka Shanghai Noon 2)
Plot: Unknown.
News:
9 January, 2003
Several photos are circulating from the movie. Three of them are below and you can find the rest right here.
10 July, 2002
Actress/singer Fann Wong has been on set in Prague for months working on the film and she has the scars to prove it. In a recent interview she showed off an arm cut, bruised and burnt during shooting. "They are just minor injuries really," she says.
In the film, she plays Owen Wilson's love interest, a role that could be a breakout one for the Chinese actress. Kissing Owen Wilson was "not so bad, not so bad at all," Wong says. But she denies any off-screen romance with the blond Texan movie star — or anyone else for that matter. "I am single and happy," she says with a laugh.
Jackie Chan has been keeping a diary of his days on the set and even posted a couple photos of him in costume in the latest entry.
20 May, 2002
The official site has already launched for this film.
Elsewhere, at Coming Attractions, they had a report from the set of the film:
"Visiting the old town of Kutna Hora, Czechia the 17th of April 2002 there were movie sets and movielights around the famous Gothic cathedral of Saint Barbara. A british flag alley and lawn with fake stret lamps and a huge fake sculpture of Queen Victoria was outside the cathedral, and inside cathedral it was full of movielights and cables. Some locals explained it was Shanghai Knights that was shot here, and everything was made out to pretend to be the Westminster Abbey in the late nineteenth century."
9 December, 2001
Actress Fann Wong has been cast in the film as Chon Lin, the sister of Jackie Chan's character.
17 July, 2001
Screenwriters Alfred Gough and Miles Millar talked to About.com about their work on the script for this sequel.
Gough describes the basic plot as it stands right now. "The story is basically set several years after the original and Jackie is still in the old west. Roy has moved back to New York and something happens to Jackie's father in China and his sister chases the killer to England. So, Jackie gets a letter, teams up with Roy and then they go off to Victorian London and there's a big international plot. It's basically two fish out of water. Roy is sort of the ugly American and Jackie is Jackie, a fish out of water, so it's kung fu in Victorian England."
Millar reluctantly comments on the action sequences, "We won't give them all away but there's Jackie in the wax museum, Jackie in a market in London, Jackie at the Tower of London."
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11 July, 2001
While speaking to Empire Online while in London to promote Rush Hour 2, Jackie Chan said that this film will be made following the completion of his work on Highbinders and before beginning work on a second Rush Hour sequel. The Shanghai Noon sequel will be filmed in China, Hong Kong, America and London.
6 March, 2001
In an inteview with a Hong Kong newspaper, Jackie Chan says that he will begin work on this movie in April, right after wrapping production on Rush Hour 2. He says he is eager to work with Owen Wilson again but isn't sure if it will happen because of another project of Wilson's. chan is more excited about this movie than Rush Hour 2 because he has more creative control and input.
9 January, 2001
It's confirmed now that the title of the movie will be Shanghai Knight. The Hollywood Reporter states this and that Jackie Chan has officially signed on to the project. There was no word on Owen Wilson's involvement. Production will likely begin following the resolution of the anticipated strikes this summer.
31 October, 2000
This weekend, Tom Dey, director of Shanghai Noon, discussed making the movie at the Virginia Film Festival. Our own Ultra Magnus was on hand and filed this report:
The whole discussion, Dey was a very affable, down to earth guy. To my delight, he spoke, took questions, and took us through scenes of Shanghai Noon for over 2 hours. And he also said he'd be more than happy to work on any potential sequels for Shanghai. Some of the potential ideas they're throwing around sound great -- one of them is Chon Wang and Roy go to England to track down Jack the Ripper. Now that's a cool movie.
In other news, Dark Horizons is reporting that in an interview with Starz Movie News, Jackie Chan stated that the sequel would be called Shanghai Knight. This would seem to match up with the duo traveling to England.
26 May, 2000
The movie is finally released today but Disney and director Tom Dey have already been talking about a sequel. After seeing the early footage, Disney executives were so excited they commissioned a sequel.
Dey talked about what has been discussed so far. "Everyone had ideas for a title, from Shanghai After Noon and Shanghai Midnight to Shanghai Plains Drifter," recalls Dey. "The sequel doesn't have a title yet, but the concept is to turn it into more of an action adventure comedy than a western. It's going to have more of a feel of an Indiana Jones movie."
4 April, 2000
Would you believe that a sequel is already being planned? The movie hasn't even opened yet. Writers Miles Millar and Al Gough have been hired to pen the sequel.
“The Shanghai sequel will be more of a standard period actioner, like Raiders of the Lost Ark, now that the first film establishes Jackie and Owen, and how they mesh together so well," says Millar. "It’ll be more action adventure, and The Mummy showed there is a terrific appetite for period action film." said Gough.
Chan himself came up with the original idea. The two writers worked closely with him to develop the first script and will do the same for the second.
