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Hollywood movie "The Departed" won big at the Oscars, this pushed Andrew Lau's reputation to a new level, he has constantly been receiving invitations from Hollywood. Andrew Lau expressed that he would not give up on the Asian market, in the future he will alternate filming between Hollywood movies and Asian movies, next year he will bring Zheng Wen's "Sword A-Bi" to the silver screen, he will invite Jay Chou and Jeon Ji Hyun to star in it.

Before "Infernal Affairs", Andrew Lau accumulated many years of photography and also directing abilities from movies such as "Young and Dangerous" and "Storm Riders", the three "Infernal Affairs" made him famous throughout the country, he continued filming "Initial D" with Jay Chou and "Daisy" with Jeon Ji Hyun and Zheng Yu. This article is translated by http://www.jaychoustudio.com

Andrew Lau and Jay Chou, who both like antique cars, became good friends because of "Initial D", the two often exchange views about movies, also Andrew Lau often has scripts coming and going from Jay Chou's company Alfa Music, communicating views. Jay Chou has learnt a lot from Andrew Lau, Anthony Wong praised Jay Chou self directed and starred in movie "A Secret I Cannot Tell You" as being very much the style of Andrew Lau. And after Jeon Ji Hyun's company collaborated on "Daisy", they highly value Andrew Lau, both sides are very close.

Bringing Zheng Wen's "Sword A-Bi" to the silver screen, Andrew Lau admitted he's been preparing for 2 to 3 years, this movie will be like "Daisy", there will be investment from countries in Asia. Andrew Lau, who is a sincere believer of Thailand's White Dragon King, has some extent into looking into life and death, the movie "Infernal Affairs" talks about black and white, the hell between life and death, Zheng Wen's "Sword A-Bi" also talks about life and death, martial arts heroes and demons and also the link between hell and the world, even though it's a comic but it shows Buddhism principles.

Andrew Lau thinks that Jay Chou will be very handsome playing a martial arts hero, he is especially suitable for playing comic book characters, talking about the possibility that he might be working with Jay Chou and Jeon Ji Hyun in "Sword A-Bi", Andrew Lau said: "It should be them two starring in it." These few days Andrew Lau went to the US, discussing the second Hollywood movie after "The Flock", as well as the adaptation of "Confession of Pain". He also met with Martin Scorsese. He expressed that once he finishes the movies in America, he'll begin "Sword A-Bi".