Official Dragon Tiger Gate Website Online...Photos and Teaser

Man, that looks like buckets of fun ...

Fingers crossed that this turns out good...

Hong Kong needs a good comic book adaption like Batman Begins or X-Men. Hopefully DTG will be able to stand as a movie by itself and not require the viewers to know all the backstory before watching.

Actually the tentative release date for this is 28 July 06. FYI :D

http://www.donnieyen.us/article285.html, see s2 at the article's bottom for linkage.

Thanks Chelle for pointing that out. ;) I'll edit the post....

If it holds means I could have the HK dvd for my birthday in Sept. ;)

My reply for the post by quartet4:
I think this will be good, becauese:
This is an action movie choreographed by Donnie Yen himself. He taught Nic Tse (plays Tiger Wong) to kick & taught/showed Shawn Yue (plays Black Dragon) how to use nunchucks.
A recent work by Donnie Yen - Wilson Yip (director) combo, SPL is a very successfull movie. If you like good action kung fu movie with minimum wire,special fx, you MUST buy SPL.
Anyway, you should see two Behind the scenes trailers for this DGT movie. It has more comic style & more wirework, but I think its still very impressive. 7 Swords sucked because it is not an action/kungfu, but more like LOTR-type drama/epic with too much dialogue & less action

About HK comic adaptation, have you seen The StormRiders, or A Man Called Hero (originally Chinese Hero)? They are pretty good comic adaptation & a lot of people including me didn't read the comic but like them.
But you can't compare them to Hollywood;s X-men,Batman Begins, etc. They have much more budget than HK movies. Still, stormriders was a success in East & SouthEast Asia. Peace

@dotcom,
i think you miss the point entirely. people enjoy the X-Men movies and Batman Begins precisely because they DO NOT rely heavily on CGI, which is something both the The Stormriders and A Man Called Hero are guilty of. none of the comic book adaptation movies from HK are as good as Batman and X-Men BECAUSE the original HK comic books are as not well-written as the US comic books.

The X-Men and Batman comic books are popular and memorable not because they are drawn beautifully or the fight sequences are creative. None of them are. They are popular because they feature stories by competent writers like Frank Miller and Chris Claremont, who can write compelling stories with good characterisations that people care about.
Most of the early HK comics, in particular those by Jademan, are sloppily put together and very crude to begin with. The people responsible are illustrators first and storyteller second and many of the stories are just a sorry excuse for fights and more fights, just like most HK movies in the 70s. In a way, the Stormriders and A Man Called Hero comic books are a vast improvement compared to those 70s stuff but put them alongside American comics written by Frank Miller, Alan Moore, Grant Morrison, Neil Gaiman and they are worlds apart. It is like comparing the quality of writing in US TV show, which are fresh, exciting and memorable, to the quality of writing in most HK and Taiwanese TV shows. They sucks big time!

The commercial success of first, X-Men and then, Spiderman have compelled the Hollywood studios to put such movies at the helm of critically acclaimed directors more well-known for subtle, poignant dramas and thrillers. Bryan Singer (Apt Pupil, The Usual Suspects) directed X-Men, Christopher Nolan (Insomnia and Memento) directed Batman Begins. Sam Raimi (yes, the Evil Dead is ALSO responsible for wonderful THE SIMPLE PLAN and the THE GIFT).
The public want well written and well directed comic book movies by directors who care about proper characterisation, not just one slam-blam actions and explosions after another. The Hollywood studios has responded.

Andrew Lau directing Stormriders and A Man Called Hero is akin to asking Michael Bay to direct X-Men and Batman Begins. Pearl Harbour and Armageddon anyone? The movies plainly suck, big time!

Now if only somebody has the foresight to ask Wong Kar Wai to direct a movie based on a HK comic book or the team from Milkyway (Johnnie To, Wai Kah Fai, Patrick Yau). That would be something to REALLY look forward to.

To feed,
Well, both Western & Eastern comics had their strong storyline with common subject, if you all are observant enough, that is - Patroism. To love your own country. For Eastern/Chinese comics, they emphasize more on Chinese culture on righteousness to overcome evil forces and to show the world Chinese fighting spirit-To overthrow the ancient portray image of 'Sick Man of the East'. Thus, Eastern/Chinese comic wrote more about super kungfu skill(some are real Shaolin martial arts, but over-exaggerated in the comic story)) of the hero/heroes fighting the evil forces, while the Western is more techno-superhuman, such as Superman come from out of the Earth, Spiderman bitten by a genetic spider for his super skills, etc. Both style of comic stories had its attractiveness and creativities. As for such comic stories to be filmed as movies, both style had to use a bit of CGI to create the super-human skills or fighting scene. Both Western & Eastern comic story also have equal amount of elaborated storyline on fighting scenes. The purpose is to create an impressions difficulties in good triumph over evil- it is not an easy tasks. Not the so-called senseless fighting, although sometimes is quite boring.

The verdict is out, critics said product placement for a certain brand cellphone which features prominently in the movie makes more lasting impression than the whole story and plot.

awesooomeeeee.....love the special effect.i'm waiting for the next movie of it

This movie was so awsooommmeee dudes i watched it in japanese and i dnt beven know how 2 speak it but i had2 read the subs but otha then that it was so awsooommme dudes and dragon, tiger and turbo are super hot az bahaha

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