Su Chao-Bin and Ethan Ruan Pair for ‘The Flying Guillotine’ Remake

It was initially reported last year that Dante Lam (Fire of Conscience) would be directing what would possibly be the Peter Chan’s produced remake of Shaw Brothers’s 1975 film The Flying Guillotine, but now Taiwanese director Su Chao-Bin, who previously directed this year’s Reign of Assassins (which preemed at the Venice), will direct the remake. Ethan Ruan Jing-Tian who won this year’s Best Leading Actor at Gold Horse Awards ceremony will star as one of the main leads in the film along with Taiwanese-Canadian actor Mark Chao, Chinese actor Yu Shao-Qun and Hong Kong actor Aarif Lee.

The Flying Guillotine was one of the Shaw Brothers’ classic martial arts films. It was directed by Meng Hua Ho, martial arts star Chen Kuan-Tai starred as the guard of the emperor who decides to leaves his post and goes into hiding, as the emperor developed a new weapon flying guillotine. The guard uses a thrown blade which decapitates, from a distance,those that he does not trust. Eventually the guard is haunted by the emperor and his former comrades and has to fight for his life not only against them but also the flying guillotine. The remake will start shooting in the spring of next year.