LEGENDARY (Eric Styles, 2013)

[Nathan]

Assuming Dolph is 2nd in command in this since his name came after Adkins in the announcement?

[Moltisanti]

I'm assuming (but don't know for sure) that Lundgren will play the rival cryptozoologist(?) that is trying to find the beast before Adkins does.

[guns]

studio
Huang Yi talks about Dolph
http://t.zbjhpg.com/tv/vid-666037

[Jox]

Is she a big star in China? Is she a model because she only has one acting credit on IMDB?

[guns]

in China Huang Yi Is a big star.
She is one of the most famous actors.

Her film and tv
from 1998
http://www.huangyiclub.com/front/mobi_work.php

[guns]

http://you.video.sina.com.cn/b/77401902-1261788454.html

[gearsofwar3]

I'm really excited for this movie, we got Dolph and Scott, plus filming in China, plus filming for 2 months instead of most dolph movies which are only filmed in 3 weeks or 1 month.

[Jox]

I'm not sure it's really taking 2 months to film, maybe it's counting the pre-production. Dolph will then go to Singapore (and Malaysia?) in June to do BATTLE OF THE DAMNED.

http://you.video.sina.com.cn/b/77401902-1261788454.html

Thanks a lot for browsing the Chinese websites for us!

[Nathan]

I think the fact that Dolph is hopping from project to project over a period of months, even weeks, shows that he must get a substantial number of offers and is still very much in demand on the DTV circuit. Hopefully at least a couple of these movies, along with TE-2 will be a springboard to getting co-starring roles in slightly bigger productions, with the number of medium budget action movies at the cinema, that open in the latter half of the top ten, it would be nice to see Dolph boost his credentials by picking up the occasional villain role in films with Jason Statham for example, or even a Liam Neeson actioner. Doubtful I know, but I feel in mainstream movies there just isn’t enough casting of people like Dolph who can both act and fight. Who was the villain in Taken? I couldn’t tell you the dude’s name. Who was the villain in Safe? Again, I couldn’t tell you who the hell that was up there on the screen.

[Jox]

I think the fact that Dolph is hopping from project to project over a period of months, even weeks, shows that he must get a substantial number of offers and is still very much in demand on the DTV circuit.

He certainly must receive more offers than before EX1, but he was never lacking them (in absolute because most are either pure crap or don't have the funds or decent pay), he doesn't accept every script he's sent, except since last year he's taking more jobs than he'd want because he's still paying his dv bills...

in mainstream movies there just isn’t enough casting of people like Dolph who can both act and fight.

I think it's not even a casting criteria in mainstream Hollywood...

[guns]

You're welcome. I feel happy to share these.

Media coverage of the investment of this film is two hundred million RMB.
equivalent of about thirty-two million Dollars.
But i think this is exaggerated.

[Jox]

I wouldn't trust the Chinese media much for this kind of infos... $32 million sounds more like the budget for the whole package of 6 LEGENDARY films, TOMB OF THE DRAGON being the first in a series of 6 movies around "cryptozoology" (why?!)...

[guns]

Only one LEGENDARY film.
In 2010, in China, Sam Neill's The Dragon Pearl crew claimed that The budget is 200 million RMB ($32 million).But the movie looks not so expensive,the movie budget is apparently exaggerated.

[Jox]

Only one LEGENDARY film.

The 1st of 6 planned feature films set around the world of Cryptozoology

http://www.cinando.com/DefaultController.aspx?PageID=FicheFilm&IdC=27826&IdF=116793

LEGENDARY is the common name for the upcoming 6 films, TOMB OF THE DRAGON (as some official sites only refer to as) is the title for this one. So in full it's LEGENDARY: TOMB OF THE DRAGON, then one (with other actors I assume) will be like LEGENDARY: DEATH OF THE LOCHNESS MONSTER, T-REX or whatever extinct or fictional animal/beast... Of course that doesn't mean they'll make the others for sure.

[guns]

Only one.
the film crew claim that budget of this film is 200 million RMB ($32 million).
Budget mostly from China.

http://ent.qq.com/a/20120519/000059.htm

budget is 200 million RMB ($32 million)

China-foreign joint movie budgets usually are exaggerated.