Timur Bekmambetov Announces Martial Films
Written by Tombalina
Timur Bekmambetov, the Kazakh-born Russian director of the soon to be released Wanted, based on a comic series by Mark Millar, told reporters that he is working on a new original project that will reinvent the martial-arts film genre.
"I have a project, I hope it will happen. Soon," Bekmambetov said in a group interview on June 16, while promoting Wanted. "It depends [on if] the original audience will like my movie Wanted. ... I cannot tell a lot, because it's kind of secret, but there will be a movie with a new type of martial arts."
Bekmambetov gained notice for his Russian supernatural action films Night Watch and Day Watch and is looking to the upcoming release of his first English movie, the SF action thriller Wanted, starring Angelina Jolie and James McAvoy.
Looking ahead, Bekmambetov said that he envisions an as-yet-untitled movie that will take martial arts to a new level. "We know ... throws. We know punches. We know Star Wars [lightsabers]," he said. "And it'll be another way of martial arts."
