Chen Kaige's The Promise Teaser!

It is truly a tease in that it is very, very short but it gives you a good look at the scope and detail of this thing and it looks gorgeous. The Weinstein boys - perhaps having learned a thing or two from Hero - have promised to release this latest martial arts epic the day after the Chinese release in December. Hopefully they'll make good on that and we won't have to do the normal two year song and dance routine that these boys like to put people through ...

Check the footage here.