I always get a little excited when I’m in a movie and Donnie Yen pops on screen. The guy is just poetry in motion when doing action sequences… and he’s got that look about his that just says “I’m going to kick the living shit out of you now… and there isn’t anything you or anyone else in this room can really do about it. But I’ll do it in a polite way”. You know what I’m talking about.
It’s been floating around fora while that Bruce Lee’s family has been wanting to make a movie of their own about the life of the martial arts legend to give a more “true” account of his life (yeah… like family won’t be biased at all). The word going around is that Donnie Yen could be the front runner for the role. The folks at Cinematical give us this:
According to the most recent reports in the Chinese press, the film’s financiers have a series of requirements for the actor who will ultimately play Lee, among them that he be ethnically Chinese, be skilled in martial arts, “a good actor” and, randomly, have Hollywood experience. While Yen is reportedly very interested in the part — and certainly fits the bill on points one, two and four — that whole “good actor” thing is open to discussion.
Ok, I’ll confess that I have no real idea how good or bad of an actor Yen is. He’s usually the strong silent type in his North American films (Blade 2, Highlander Endgame… even the NA releases of Iron Monkey, Hero and Croutching Tiger). But I’d love to see him in this.
