Steven Chow Confirms We're Getting A Follow-Up To Kung Fu Hustle

Fifteen years on from the release of martial arts comedy hit Kung Fu Hustle, it looks like we could finally be getting some sort of follow-up.

Actor Steven Chow, who starred in the original, revealed that another instalment (of sorts) is now in development while at an audience Q&A in Guangzhou, Hong Kong, where he was promoting his latest movie, The New King of Comedy.

Chow, now 56, was asked by a fan on Tuesday whether or not there would be a second Kung Fu Hustle.

"Yes!" he said, much to our surprise - although he continued to explain it probably won't be a sequel as such. By the sounds of things, it'll be more of a reboot.

"Actually, it won't be so much a Kung Fu Hustle 2; it would be a modern-day kung fu story set in a foreign country and have its own standalone story," he said.

"But it will have a similar direction and concept as Kung Fu Hustle."

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Chow also admitted he might be up for appearing in the film, despite having recently spent more time behind the camera than in front of it, having focused on directing.

"I might consider playing someone who gets beaten up - I can't fight that well anymore!" he joked.

The original 2004 film sees Chow star as Sing, a small-time mobster in 1940s China who dreams of being as respected as the Axe Gang, a band of killers who rule Hong Kong.

It was such a hit with audiences that it broke box office records across Asia.

It did surprisingly well critically, too, with a score of 90 percent on review aggregrator Rotten Tomatoes.

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The Toronto Star's Geoff Pevere wrote at the time: "Retrieving the martial arts movie from the gentrified middlebrow tastefulness of movies like House of Flying Daggers is only one item on Kung Fu Hustle's agenda."

Newsweek's David Ansen said the film was 'so disarmingly eager to please' that 'only a stone-faced kung fu purist could object'.

Referring to Chow as 'agonisingly multi-talented', Simon Crook from Empire said the film had 'minimum plot, maximum rumble', saying: "Subtle it ain't and God is it loud - half the time it's like having your head trapped between a pair of cymbals - but, really, it's one giant kick in the nuts for Hollywood."

Rumours of a possible sequel have been circulating for a while now, but nothing concrete had been confirmed.

While the details are still a little shaky, at least now there's something for us to cling onto.

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Jess Hardiman

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