Keanu Reeves takes the directors chair for the first time with Man Of Tai Chi, and from the evidence of this trailer, he seems to have taken a lot of lessons from the Matrix for the movie visual style, as all it needs is a bit of bullet time.

Indeed Keanu had plenty of Matrix help with the fights, as he hired Yuen Woo-Ping, who was the action choreographer on the Wachowski directed movies, to put the battles together. The movie is about a young martial artist (Tiger Hu Chen) who gets lured into an underground tournament in Beijing. He’s promised the chance for greatness by the scheming Reeves, but only if he survives the no rules, no referees and no-holds barred battles.

The film should be out later this year. [Read more…]

Keanu Reeves has turned director for The Man Of Tai Chi, and now we get a new trailer, so we can get a feel for whether being behind the camera is a good place for The Matrix actor.

Indeed Keanu had plenty of Matrix help with the fights, as he hired Yuen Woo-Ping, who was the action choreographer on the Wachowski directed movies, to put the battles together. The movie is about a young martial artist (Tiger Hu Chen) who gets lured into an underground tournament in Beijing. He’s promised the chance for greatness by the scheming Reeves, but only if he survives the no rules, no referees and no-holds barred battles.

The film will be out later this year.