Sequel To ‘Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon’ To Shoot In May!

This is some very good news if you’re a fan of Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, or martial arts movies in general.

Deadline has learned that a sequel to Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon is in the works, and that the film is scheduled to start shooting this May. John Fusco (The Forbidden Kingdom) has written the script for the sequel, which is (of course) based on the same series of novels that the first film was adapted from (the Crane-Iron Pentalogy by Wang Du Lu).

The film is currently without stars or a director (Ang Lee is not involved with this sequel), but Deadline reports that The Weinstein Company is in talks with Chinese director Ronny Yu. In regards to plot, Fusco told Deadline:

 “This introduces a new generation of star-crossed lovers, and a new series of antagonists in a battle of good and evil. It has a Knights Errant quality. There is an alternate universe in the books, a martial forest that exists alongside the real world, full of wandering sword fighters, medicine men, defrocked priests, poets, sorcerers and Shaolin renegades. It’s so vast and rich, and I found characters from the second and third books in the series to create a most interesting stew while being as true to the source material as I could be.”

What are your thoughts on this? I (embarrassingly) haven’t actually seen the first film, so I don’t really know what to think!

Source: Deadline