The first film, directed by the late Hong Kong director Chen Musheng, was released in November 2013 and starred Gu Tianle, Liu Qingyun and Zhang Jiahui, and received 237 million box office and high acclaim. Six years later, Qiu Litao took over the guide, and the box office of "Sweeping Drugs 2: Showdown Between Heaven and Earth" starring Andy Lau and Gu Tianle reached 1.312 billion.
The third part of the film anti-drug, "Sweeping Drugs 3: Heaven and Earth" was launched this summer, continuing to be directed by Qiu Litao, Gu Tianle, Aaron Kwok, Liu Qingyun three "film emperors" on the same stage, Yang Caiyu, Luo Jialiang, Xie Junhao, Fang Zhongxin, Chen Guobang, Hong Tianming, Liu Haolong, Su Chenyi, Qiu Zhanhui, Lin Xue and other starring lists can also be called the "mainstay" of Hong Kong films.
On October 26, Qiu Litao's film "Sweeping Drugs 3: Heaven and Earth" was officially announced. Director Qiu Litao co-starred in a champagne opening ceremony in a Nearly 50,000-square-meter Thai filming scene built in LiufuShan, Hong Kong. The film is scheduled to be released in 2022.
It is reported that "Sweeping Drugs 3: Heaven and Earth" has no direct connection with the previous work in terms of characters and plot, but is consistent in the theme, focusing on the life-and-death duel between the anti-drug police and the drug lords and their gangs, exploring the boundaries of good and evil, and paying attention to the human struggle in the predicament. On the basis of continuing the large-scale production of the previous work, the film upgraded and invested, and the main place of the story was set in the famous "Golden Triangle" area at the junction of Thailand, Myanmar and Laos, and strived to bring the audience a hot blockbuster that lived up to expectations.
It is worth mentioning that this is also the second time that Gu Tianle has cooperated with Aaron Kwok after the "Judo Dragon and Tiger List" (2004). The film was originally planned to move to Thailand to shoot locations, but due to the epidemic situation, it could not be completed, and then spent a huge amount of money to build a Nearly 50,000 square meters of Thai village scene in LiufuShan, Hong Kong, for filming.
After several twists and turns, "Sweeping Drugs 3 Days and Great Earth" finally completed all the shooting, the crew moved from Xishuangbanna to Shanwei, after several months of struggle, the huge shooting project was finally successfully completed.
Qiu Litao, who is about to turn 60, still maintains a high production, in addition to "Sweeping Drugs 3", at the recent 2021 National Cinema Domestic Film Promotion Conference, his new work "Jedi Pursuit" released a new production special. The film stars Ou Hao, Gu Jiacheng, Yu Haoming and others, and is scheduled to be released in 2022.
In addition, this month's movie "Assassination Storm" directed by Qiu Litao also exposed a pilot poster, officially announcing the starring lineup of Gu Tianle, Zhang Zhilin, Wu Zhenyu and other stars, and announced that the film will be released in 2021.
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