Fearless Release Date Is Announced

Rouge (a division of Focus) has just announce theaterical release date for Jet Li’s latest FEARLESS in North America. it is scheduled to be released on 08-04-2006. And supposedly they are going for a wide release. So even a small town could be able to get at least one screen in a multiplex. That is a good thing. The film has been a good success in China but that recent request from Huo Zizheng, Huo Yuanjia’s great grandson, causing a bit of trouble. He wants an apology from Jet Li and the studio because parts of the film went too far from the truth. 

CRIEenglish has him quoted saying “he only learned from newspaper coverage that Li was planning to make the movie about his great grandfather. But no one asked for any opinions from us. Maybe the film producers were afraid their production would be restricted in some way. Anyway, they should have told us about the movie production, at least for the sake of politeness. There have been a lot of films and TV plays about my great grandfather. My family can understand and accept the fiction part in these works for the sake of art. But that is under the premise that these works respect the true spirit of my great grandfather and are at least 70 percent true to history. But some plots in this movie were too inconsistent with the facts. We need an apology from Jet Li and the studio”.