Johnny revealed that he is working on Hong Kong drama entitled “Bat” Hop Over the past three years, explore the current situation of playing on his land.
He also confirmed rumors that it appeared in late 2024 that he was planning to shoot a gang movie in the Japanese mountainous Holkkaido region at the end of this year, but he said he depended on his production produced by Hong Kong.
Speaking to the pluscinemaz.comon the sidelines of the QMRA event at the Doha Institute, he suggested that he was creatively banned on how to finish the Hong Kong movie.
“I shot 10 days two months ago and then stopped. I had no feeling about how to shoot, so I will wait.”
The director said that he was using his brands in photography without a scenario, and that it was too early to say exactly what was going on the movie.
“I have a very approximate idea, but it is not mature,” he said. “The first thing I have to settle [is] My feeling about Hong Kong. I tried several times. Sometimes I want to go out [of] Hong Kong to think about the text program but you cannot work … I really want to finish it in the next three months. If you want to finish, [that’s] Easy, but I am not really myself, so this is a big problem for me. “
He said: “It is a movie about hope … If people hope that they will have a lot of burden … I am thinking about this. The story is Hong Kong, its people.”
To – which is known all over the world for movement and gangs like Urgent newsand electionand Election 2and denyand Crazy detective and Drug war He continues to direct and produce it under the Hong Kong production company, Milkyway Image.
The flourishing film industry in Hong Kong has helped in its establishment since the delivery of the former British colony to China in 1997 and the rise of cinema on the Chinese mainland.
China's campaign against pro -democracy activists has also got rid of the region, as it is estimated that about 500,000 people have left the country between 2021 and 2024.
He said: “The value of life, and the value of everything has changed. You have to try to learn how except that. This is why I cannot finish my film.
“It is not only about censorship. I am talking about the value, the value of your life, what you chase, and what is its value … maybe it is not completely controlling. I can make a movie, any kind of films, but you ask yourself why you make this movie, and this is always in my mind.”
He was asked about his advice to join Hong Kong directors, about the answer: “Filming. If you have an opportunity to shoot, it is of course difficult to find funding. There are only two production films in Hong Kong this year [in the first quarter]”
This compared to about 200 films filmed annually at the height of the Hong Kong movie industry, said the assistant in the interview.
Facing challenges at home, to confirm that he was planning to shoot in Japan, if he could finish Hope.
“If I can finish my movie, I will film at the end of this year, in December in Hokkaido, but I still cannot finish my film … I must wait but once it is very fast.”
He emphasized that the production of Japan was a gang movie, but he said it was too early to determine whether it was long -collaborated by Tony Leyong Chey Way would be linked to the project.
He said, “I don't know. I would like to do it with him, he is the best friend of me, but I don't know.”
He added that he was also in the early stages of development in a third cinematic project in Taiwan.
“I want to try to go out [of Hong Kong]. He said: “I must think about Japan, Taiwan, the Philippines, Malaysia, or Europe.”
However, to say that he will not leave his hometown of Hong Kong forever.
He said, “I don't want it. I love Hong Kong. I had many opportunities to go out of Hong Kong to shoot it but I know Hong Kong, and I love Hong Kong, so I want to try to make films in Hong Kong even if I could not.”
“life [outside of Hong Kong]That survival be easy but your culture, everything, is difficult to bring it with you, especially when you are a way out. ”
