Follow up to Jet Li’s Kung Fu Cult Master, Raymond Lam leads the veteran cast in film The Heaven Sword and Dragon Sabre

New Kung Fu Cult Master aka The Heaven Sword and Dragon Sabre (倚天屠龍記) is set 20 years after the event of Jet Li’s Kung Fu Cult Master released back in 1993. Taking on the older character of Zhang Wu Ji is Raymond Lam and Janice Man as the love of his life – Zhao Min, along with other TVB veterans.

Wong Jing, what’s going on here? It’s been over 20 years and you thought to revive a sequel to this movie?! Why? I am happy you’re using all TVB actors and actresses but one would think we need something new and exciting?

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Stills:

Raymond Lam as the Zhang Wu Ji in his 30s.

Janice Man as Zhao Min.

Yun Qian Qian as Xiao Zhao. She’s beautiful!

Look at her styling here…. Exotic!

Sabrina Qiu Yi Nong as Zhou Zhi Ruo.

Louis Koo as Cheung Tsui San. HAHA. A Step Into The Past‘s reunion, I see.

Alex Fong as Yang Xiao.

Elvis Tsui as Golden-Haired Lion King.

Ha. Felix Lok Ying Kwan was TVB’s Golden-Haired Lion King in the 2000 version. Now he’s playing White Brows Eagle King (Wu Ji’s grandpa)

Chen Zi Han as Purple Dress Dragon King.

Raymond Wong as Green Winged Bat King. Omgosh. The green parrot feathers sticking out of his ears. XD

Donnie Yen as Zhang San Feng.

  1. 10 thoughts on “Follow up to Jet Li’s Kung Fu Cult Master, Raymond Lam leads the veteran cast in film The Heaven Sword and Dragon Sabre

    The “old” male lead made me think this was a sequel set after the ending of the novel. Then the pictures made me wonder about the characters who had moved on and why not Ming Dynasty already.

    • 10 thoughts on “Follow up to Jet Li’s Kung Fu Cult Master, Raymond Lam leads the veteran cast in film The Heaven Sword and Dragon Sabre

      Nobody ever moves on in Dramaland, I guess. LOL.

      • 10 thoughts on “Follow up to Jet Li’s Kung Fu Cult Master, Raymond Lam leads the veteran cast in film The Heaven Sword and Dragon Sabre

        Very curious about how licensing works with drama/film remakes and new “interpretations”. Is it cheaper to keep retreading the same material?

  2. 10 thoughts on “Follow up to Jet Li’s Kung Fu Cult Master, Raymond Lam leads the veteran cast in film The Heaven Sword and Dragon Sabre

    I don’t know, it’s been a long time since the first one was released. I barely remember the first once because I was just a kid and had to look it up to jog my memory. Will newer viewers really know what this is about?

    I think casting Louis Koo to play Raymond Lam was an odd choice considering they look relatively similar in age, even though Louis is about 10 years older than Raymond in real life.

    • 10 thoughts on “Follow up to Jet Li’s Kung Fu Cult Master, Raymond Lam leads the veteran cast in film The Heaven Sword and Dragon Sabre

      Jin Yong novels are still popular. There are also a few drama versions of Heavenly Sword and Dragon Saber. Most recent one was about 3 years ago. My guess is that the movie’s target audience is people who are at least somewhat familiar with it.

      • 10 thoughts on “Follow up to Jet Li’s Kung Fu Cult Master, Raymond Lam leads the veteran cast in film The Heaven Sword and Dragon Sabre

        Oh yes, duh, how could I forget the most recent remakes? LOL! For some reason, I keep thinking Kung Fu Cult Master is an entirely different story, even though I’ve seen so many versions of HSDS.

  3. 10 thoughts on “Follow up to Jet Li’s Kung Fu Cult Master, Raymond Lam leads the veteran cast in film The Heaven Sword and Dragon Sabre

    Trailer.

  4. 10 thoughts on “Follow up to Jet Li’s Kung Fu Cult Master, Raymond Lam leads the veteran cast in film The Heaven Sword and Dragon Sabre

    So much CGI! The ladies are so beautiful and young! The main lead is such a miscast… There are better actors to play ZWJ. Like Eddie Peng, Nicholas Tse, Hu Ge, Wallace Huo etc. And what’s up with the curly hairstyle on a bunch of people?

  5. 10 thoughts on “Follow up to Jet Li’s Kung Fu Cult Master, Raymond Lam leads the veteran cast in film The Heaven Sword and Dragon Sabre

    after i seen this movie., i much prefered the Jet Lee previous one., this new one is too boring,with too much of cgi every where., and i don’t look the excitement of Zhang Wu ji journey here more., and donnie yen is useless with his character here, i much prefered zhang san feng in sammo hung version., more humanis ‘n humoris.. really not the best dragon sabre movie ever seen., most like tony leung version and jet lee .. sorry., but this my opinion

    • 10 thoughts on “Follow up to Jet Li’s Kung Fu Cult Master, Raymond Lam leads the veteran cast in film The Heaven Sword and Dragon Sabre

      Your opinion seems to be the prevailing one at the moment. I had to utilize the Forward button a lot. Didn’t even finish. Lol.

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