Frontières at TIFF The Market Unveils Lineup, Featuring a ‘Dim Sum Western,’ Newlywed Night of Terror and Wolf-Tracking Dark Comedy

Frontières at TIFF The Market Unveils Lineup, Featuring a ‘Dim Sum Western,’ Newlywed Night of Terror and Wolf-Tracking Dark Comedy

Hong Kong film luminary Johnnie To’s “Two Gun Cohen,” based on an extraordinary true story, is among seven titles bowing in Frontières at TIFF: The Market, a standalone showcase aimed at co-producers, sales agents and buyers prospecting genre projects in Toronto this September. Frontières, the international co-production market organized by Montreal’s Fantasia Film Festival, announced […]

Before Mark Gor, there was Morris Cohen! Hong Kong filmmaker Johnnie To to helm action western ‘Two Gun Cohen’

Looks like Park Chan-wook (Old Boy, The Brigands of Rattlecreek) isn’t the only acclaimed Asian filmmaker taking a shot at the western genre… Acclaimed Hong Kong filmmaker Johnnie To (Three, The Mission) is set to direct Two Gun Cohen, a “Dim Sum western” (Chinese western) based on the true story of legendary historical figure Morris Cohen, also known as Ma Kun. Cohen was a Jewish adventurer who spent his early years in Canada, where he became c…

Johnnie To Will Direct “Dim Sum Western” Two Gun Cohen

Johnnie To films don’t come around so often nowadays, and the ones that are promised barely seem to materialize. As the absurdly, comically long and not-quite-expected-to-be-fulfilled wait for Election 3 continues and his Japan-set Tony Leung gangster picture, as the star told us, hit some roadblocks, Variety reports that the Hong Kong legend is now embarking on his first western and, somewhat less thrillingly, an inaugural film set in Canada. W…

TWO GUN COHEN: Johnnie To's Latest Takes To Frontières At TIFF: The Market For New 'Dim Sum Western' From 'The Raid' Producer

To will direct from a script by Patrick Whistler ("In Cold Light") The post TWO GUN COHEN: Johnnie To’s Latest Takes To Frontières At TIFF: The Market For New ‘Dim Sum Western’ From ‘The Raid’ Producer appeared first on Film Combat Syndicate.