Sequel to Jiang Wen's Blockbuster "Let the Bullets Fly" Starts Shooting

The bullets are about to start flying again. After topping China's domestic box office as its all-time champion with Let the Bullets Fly, Beijing's favorite director/actor Jiang Wen is back for a sequel.

Gone With The Bullets (nice touch, Columbia marketing) started shooting (ha ha) Monday in Beijing, with locations planned for Shanghai, Fujian, and Inner Mongolia. The film is the third in Jiang's planned Bullet trilogy. The first film, an Eastern (a Western set in China), featured Jiang alongside some all-star buddies, including Chow Yun-fat, comedian and Cannes Film Festival Best Actor award winner Ge You, along with Hong Kong's Carina Lau as a leading lady. The film took in RMB 720 million domestically, displacing the previous China box office champion, Feng Xiaogang's Aftershock. James Cameron's Avatar is still the all-time leader in China.

Gone With The Bullets moves the story to Shanghai in the 1920s. Based on a true story, the tale revolves around a notorious beauty pageant called the Flowers Competition, organized by Jiang and Ge's characters. When the wrong contestant wins, the bullets, well, fly.

The film is due out in December 2014.

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