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Man what the fuck would we do without wikipedia? I’ve been keeping an eye on the new Stephen Chow (Shaolin Soccer, Kung-fu Hustle) film for a while, and in that time it seems to have changed titles several times. At first I thought Chow was working on more than one production at the same time, but wikipedia is there to clean it all up for me:

In August 2007 the film was given the title ‘CJ7′, a play on China’s successful Shenzhou manned space missions - Shenzhou 5 and Shenzhou 6. It was previously been known by a series of working titles - ‘Alien’, ‘Yangtze River VII’, ‘Long River 7′ and most notably, ‘A Hope’.

Also there seems to be no clear plot synopsis for the film anywhere either (this is turning into a wacky version of cloverfield), Wikipedia give me this:

Chow plays a man who lives in a partly demolished house. He takes in a homeless boy (who is actually played by a girl, Xu Jiao). Whether the semi-demolished house and the homeless boy are on Earth, or on the alien planet is not clear. As Chow’s character can’t afford to buy a toy for the child, he finds a makeshift toy in the garbage and brings it back to his “son”. The “toy” is actually a powerful alien device and the aliens are desperate to get it back.[4] Some rumours state that it is a “pet” rather than a “toy”

You can check some stills from the film at a russian site here and at a chinese site here

I loved Kung-fu hustle it was one of my favourite films of the last couple of years, mainly because it was such a surprise to me. I enjoyed Shaolin Soccer but Kung-fu hustle was such a step-up it really blew me away. Understandably the looney-tunes elements weren’t for everyone, but for me just added to the fun I was already having….

i’m looking forward to ‘CJ7′ .. it’s on my ‘balls out’ list. that’s a good thing

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