Peter Chan's Ci Ma renamed to Tou Ming Zhuang
 

CHINA  Mar. 16, 2007 (Credits to Karazen staff)

The movie Ci Ma, directed by Peter Chan, starring Jet Li, Andy Lau and Takeshi Kaneshiro had changed its Chinese title to Tou Ming Zhuang. Peter expressed that the media had mistaken that this is a re-make of Shaw Organization's The Blood Brothers, actually since shooting started, the director and scriptwriters had worked hard on the story with reference to novels, history books and self reference thus dissolve the question of whether the movie is a re-shoot, to avoid any more confusion, the movie will be renamed as Tou Ming Zhuang.

Peter explained that the movie narrates brotherhood love, which is almost the same as A Better Tomorrow, the 3 male leads become sworn brothers become the main point as they wrote a will of dying together, as they used their own blood to write down Tou Ming Zhuang (Name Will) which says: "We could not be born together, hope we can die together" thus they go into a no-return path. The name will is a certificate of loyalty in the past, when one join a new organization, he had to sign a name will to express his loyalty.

The movie has a high budget of US $40,000,000, it's scheduled to be screened in December 2007 and will be used to welcome the new year 2008.

The English title of the film will change from "The Violent Land" to "The Warlords." Peter Chan has apparently stressed his movie is not a remake of Chang Cheh's version. The first teaser (above) poster for the new movie featuring the three leads, was also released on Thursday.