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Johnnie To Plans to Shoot a Hong Kong Gangster Movie That Could Reunite Him With Tony Leung
Johnnie To says he plans to shoot a Hong Kong gangster movie and teases the prospect of reuniting on it with Tony Leung.
Meanwhile To – who last directed the 2019 feature “Chasing Dream” about a boxer and a singer chasing the Chinese Dream – has quietly returned behind camera on another film that is having a long gestation due to the fact that the revered prolific director has been in a creative impasse due to the onslaught of political upheavals in Hong Kong following the territory’s handover from Britain to China in 1997. “The movie talks about hope,” To said, asked about his new film, which features Hong Kong popstar Anson Lo. To, whose highly stylized crime films – often with existential social overtones include “Election” and “Vengeance,” that played in Cannes, and “Exiled,” “Mad Detective,” and “Life Without Principle,” that launched in Venice — is known to frequently use improvised locations and minimalist screenplays and often works on multiple productions at the same time.
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