Talk about wild times in China. Every single country is attempting to work with Chinese film productions as they’re flush with cash and also make a killing when it comes to releasing films. In fact, more than a handful of U.S. blockbusters have been saved by the massive box office numbers in China. It’s reaching the point of ridiculous, especially when you read this story.
Japan teamed with China on Legend of the Demon Cat, a massive period horror film that is set over a thousand years ago during the Tang Dynasty. Moonstone Films explains on their website that the construction of the film sets took 5 years at the cost of over 200 million US dollars. “For the production, Chen Kaige arranged the construction of an entire city as the set with lakes, rivers, palaces, caves, glamorous buildings and parks.” The kicker? “The city will be housing people and serve as an amusement park after filming is completed.”
The filming of this epic lasted 150 shooting days over 3 seasons, with thousands of extras, over 15,000 costumes and a crew of hundreds of professionals. Over 1,200 Visual Effects are being designed in Japan, creating the mysterious character of the film – The Demon Cat. A film about Love,
In the film about love, death, and revenge, “A Chinese poet and a Japanese monk join forces to investigate a demonic cat who has possessed a general’s wife and wreaked havoc on the Imperial court. The investigation takes gruesome and unexpected twists, resulting in the monk and the poet unraveling the mystery behind the death decades earlier of legendary, beautiful concubine Yang Guifei.”
The film is set for release on December 22nd, 2017, in China.
