It’s John Woo’s Swordswoman’s World, We Just Live in It

John Woo’s dreams of staging the greatest aerial battles ever filmed over China is apparently going to be put on hold. At least, if this article by 24FPS is correct, which has the “Red Cliff” auteur setting aside his model toy planes for some swordswoman action with Michelle Yeoh and South Korean actor Woo-sung Jung (”Musa: The Warrior”). And oh yeah, John Woo will also be getting all Will Smith on us and is casting his daughter Angeles Woo, who according to Woo’s longtime producing partner Terrence Chang, will easily embody the role, since she’s been studying martial arts for the role of a female assassin.

According to 24FPS, Woo has announced that “The Swordswoman’s World” will be his next movie instead of the “Flying Tigers” movie he had announced earlier, where Woo promised the aforementioned “greatest aerial battles ever filmed over China”. And I was so looking forward to slow-motion dogfights as white doves flew by, too.

“The Swordswoman’s World” will cost $14 million (or 100 million yaun, if you’re into foreign currencies), a pittance compared to the mega bucks it took to make Woo’s last martial arts epic, “Red Cliff”, which has since paid off handsomely in boffo box office returns, with the film now poised to take on the International audience with its epicness.