PIRATES Gets Fat

By: News Editor
Date: Thursday, July 07, 2005
Source: Variety

Disney has signed Chow Yun-Fat for PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN 3. Yun-fat will play Captain Sao Feng, a notorious pirate.

PIRATES 2 and 3 are shooting back-to-back through January 2006.

PIRATES 2 is scheduled for release in July 2006 release, while PIRATES 3 is set for summer 2007. Filming is currently on break while director Gore Verbinski works on PIRATES 2, but shooting will start back up in mid-August.

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Comments/Responses

• Jul 07, 2005, 05:12am •

Yay! Bulletproof Monk was awful but Fat's dry humour and martial art talent was the one entertaining thread throughout.

• Jul 07, 2005, 06:30am •

Ah fat will also be takeing the roll of 'mad max' in the fourth installment, the rock will be the baddie.
Yes if you can smell it its real ( Y )

• Jul 07, 2005, 11:21am •

I thought Mr. Fat would play Two Face or the Joker in BATMAN KEEPS GOING. That might work actually more so if he is Harvey Dent.

• Jul 07, 2005, 12:13pm •

You know I've often pondered how Chow Yun-Fat keeps getting work in this country. I've yet to see a good Chow Yun-Fat movie or even a solid performance outta the guy. I mean it's pretty obvious english isn't his first language and everytime he delievers dialogue it sounds very wooden. Oh well I'm sure Johney Depp will save that movie too.

• Jul 07, 2005, 01:13pm •

Maybe Godzilla will rise up and eat Fat's ship while Depp has encounter with Kevin Kostners merman. Could be cool?

• Jul 07, 2005, 01:37pm •

Chow Yun-Fat is hands down one of the best actors out there. It's too bad he seems to have the same problems as Jet Li: mediocre action movies. Hopefully this will be the big movie for Chow Yun-Fat. If this doesn't work, maybe he and John Woo could go back to Hong Kong and do a real movie again?

• Jul 07, 2005, 01:46pm •

Mr. Chow is the coolest bad-ass there is. Period.
Sure, if you only got to see that piece of crap called Bulletproof Monk, well I can't change your mind. Try the old flicks with John Woo, which reinvented the action genre.

• Jul 07, 2005, 04:54pm •

jezutix watch THE KILLER with subtitles hell even the dubbed version. Also I was surprised at how good of a movie THE CORRUPTOR was. I have not seen ANNA and THE KING but Jodie Foster always seems to make the ridiculous work. Although most of CONTACT sucked except for the ending. Also HARD BOILED was a tad ridiculous but it was an enjoyable film as was The Replacement KIllers.

• Jul 07, 2005, 04:59pm •

My sentiments exactly. If you can get past the over the top acton of hong-kong flicks they're one hundred times better than any Michael "Scripts-make-my-head-hurt" Bay and Bruckheimer have to offer. I fell asleep watching Bullet Proof Monk. Fat had great range in Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon.

• Jul 07, 2005, 05:56pm •

How can we forget Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon? This can't be seriously jumbled in the mediocre bin, now, can it? But, then again, he spoke a different language in that movie. Bet Disney wouldn't conceive of allowing Fat's character (Captain Sao Feng) to be believable and actually speak a foreign lauguage. Why is everybody so freakin' scared of subtitles? Oh yeah, brain fart... cuz we're a nation of lazy, quick fix, no imagination, no-patience-for-reading culture.

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