(China Daily) The film, Dust to Dust, based on a cash robbery from a van in South China's Guangdong province in 1995, is is scheduled to be released in the first half of 2020.
The movie, featuring Hong Kong veterans Cheang Pou-soi and Tse Kwok-ho who joined hands as the executive producers, is directed by Jonathan Li and stars actors Dong Chengpeng, better known as Dapeng, and Gordon Lam Ka-tung.
The film is being shot in Foshan, Guangdong province.
Dapeng, who plays a gangster boss, says that he put on 10 kilograms for the role and also lost it as the script requires such a body transformation.
A native of Jilin province in Northeast China, Dapeng also had to learn Cantonese for the role.
Speaking about the film in Shanghai recently, Dapeng said: "I love the challenge. And I hope the film will surprise the audience."
According to the producers, the film is based on the real-life story of how seven robbers armed with guns robbed around 15 million yuan ($2.2 million) from a vehicle in Fanyu, in Guangdong province, on Dec 22, 1995.
The criminals also caused the death of a security guard on the van. Five of the suspects were arrested shortly after the robbery, but two remained free for around 12 years. One voluntarily surrendered himself to the Chinese police in 2016 and the last one was captured in early January 2017.
Source: By Xu Fan | chinadaily.com.cn