On May 16, Jackie Chan joined hands with Guli Nazha, Zhang Yixing, Li Zhiting, Li Chen and other actors to continue the front edge of "Myth", and the film "Legend" filmed in Zhaosu County, Xinjiang was officially announced, and the film will be released nationwide on July 12 this year.
The film is honorably produced by Bona Film Group, with Yu Dong as the producer and chief producer, written and directed by Tang Jili, starring Jackie Chan, Zhang Yixing, Nazha, Li Zhiting, and Li Chen. The film integrates ancient and modern time, action-adventure and fantasy elements, and is committed to creating a drama that integrates action, scenes, emotions and temperature, continuing the touching and shocking brought by "Myth", and bringing a rich viewing experience to the audience.
In 2005, "Myth" was a phenomenal movie, and its theme song "Beautiful Myth" has been sung to this day. Nineteen years later, Legend takes over the fantastical adventure of Mythology, taking the audience on a journey between the mysteries of modern archaeology and the smoke of ancient battlefields.
While focusing on the storyline and character development, the film "Legend" shows a breakthrough on the technical level. The latest AI technology used successfully restored the young Jackie Chan. In addition, the scenes of thousands of troops and horses in the film are all shot with real horses, real scenes, and real scenes, and the actors also participated in it themselves, establishing a deep tacit understanding and relationship with the "horse actors". Director Tang Jili said that the scene of riding and fighting is very difficult to film, but all the leading actors insist on going into battle in person, striving to bring the best visual effects to the audience. It is worth mentioning that these shocking scenes were filmed in Zhaosu County, Xinjiang.
Zhaosu County is famous for its abundance of good horses, and the culture of horses has a long history. Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty once gave the ancestor of the Ili horse, who was vigorous, light and flexible, and ran fast, "Tianma". Zhaosu County, a place known as the "Hometown of China's Heavenly Horses", has become an ideal filming location for the movie "Legend" with its magnificent natural scenery and unique cultural background. There are no filters or retouching, and every picture is as beautiful as a postcard, which adds a lot of color to the movie. From snowy fields to lush spruce forests to majestic grasslands with thousands of horses galloping, Legend captures unparalleled visual stunt in this magical land.
In recent years, film and television works that have been filmed in Xinjiang have bloomed with dazzling artistic light because of their telling of moving stories about Xinjiang. The release of the movie "Legend" will further enhance the popularity, reputation and influence of Xinjiang's tourism resources, so that more domestic and foreign audiences can feel the beauty of Xinjiang.
Source: Shi Jiuyun/Xinjiang Daily
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