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• MILKYWAY TACTICAL MEETINGS (WITH A VENGEANCE)

  Monday, Apr 20, 2009 8:51AM / News / Hong Kong Cinema / Members only
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  I’m back in (the suburb of of) Paris since April 16^th, and I just finished to write for the French mag Mad Movies/Impact, a 3-page article about Milkyway Image, the production company founded by Johnnie To 杜琪峰and Wai Kai-fai 韋家輝, which produced recently “Tactical Unit Comrades in Arms 機動部隊─衕袍” (screened a few weeks ago at the Hong Kong International Film Festival, and soon to be screened at the Far East Film Festival) and “Vengeance 復仇” (Official French theatrical release on May 20^th, 2009).

   

  

  
  

  During my stay in HK, I had the chance to interview one afternoon, some of the Milkyway Image creative team like the scriptwriters Yau Nai-hoi 游乃海 and Au Kin-yee 歐健兒 and most of all, Law Wing-cheong 羅永昌, director of two of the five Tactical Units sequels (The Code 機動部隊─警例and Comrades in Arms), who was also executive director on the original PTU movie.
  

  
  

   

  
  

  Law Wing-cheong works with Johnnie To for a very long time (he started at TVB as well), so I basically interviewed him about his whole carreer during 100 minutes (translation included). The scriptwriters were kind of busy, so I just had around 10-15 minutes with them.

   

  

  
  

  In between, I also interviewed during half an hour the “Hong Kong Frenchie Boy” Vincent Sze especially about his part in Tactical Unit – Comrades in Arms, his first movie as a lead (beside Simon Yam 任達華, Maggie Shiu 邵美琪and Lam Suet 林雪) where he plays a good but bad tempered cop. He’ll also apparead in Vengeance as the son-in-law of the main character played by Johnny Hallyday.

   

  

  
  

  After that, I also had a brief chat with Yuin Ding-chan 丁雲山 (production manager/supervisor of quite a lot of Milkyway Image movies) about the next Milkyway Image projects - including the new Soi Cheang movie, Accident (ex-Assassins 暗殺) and  Written By, directed by Wai Kai-fai etc... -  to complete my article.

   

  

  
  

  Frédéric Ambroisine (April 20^th, 2009)