After a 2-year hiatus, Wilson Yip, the director of Donnie Yen’s Ip Man and Ip Man 2 (and currently Ip Man 3), is teaming up with Jet Li for a supernatural action epic. The upcoming film – co-directed by Koan Hui (Snow Blossom) – will be based on the 16th-century Chinese novel by Xu Zhonglin titled Investiture of Gods.
Also starring in Investiture of Gods is Shu Qi (Legend of the Fist), Louis Koo (Flash Point), Huang Xiaoming (Ip Man 2), AngelaBaby (Tai Chi 0), Tony Leung Ka-Fai (A Better Tomorrow III) and Cecilia Cheung (Legendary Amazons).
Updates: Hong Kong media (via Sam the Man) is reporting that actress Cecilia Cheung has been fired from Investiture of Gods because of failure to attend filming and out-of-control behavior on set when she did turn up. She was originally cast for the role of Nezha.
Cheung responded by stating that it was all due to misunderstanding, but her ex-manager and one of Investiture’s investors, Tiffany Chen, said that there was no ‘misunderstanding’ at all and criticized Cheung for not valuing the opportunities that she was given. It is estimated that the investors would lose tens of millions in HK$ due to the need to reshoot Cheung’s parts.
