Production
Connected is a remake of the 2004 American thriller Cellular, which starred Kim Basinger and Chris Evans. It is also the first film to be produced by Sirius XM Radio's production arm Sirius Pictures International. Connected is a Chinese-Hong Kong co-production. It was produced by Hong Kong's Emperor Motion Pictures, China Film Group and Warner China Film HG, the Chinese production arm of Warner Bros.
The film was produced and directed by Benny Chan, and stars Louis Koo in the lead role. Both the director and actor reunite after collaborating on the 2006 film, Rob-B-Hood. Chan also reunites with stunt coordinator Nicky Li, a former leader of the Jackie Chan Stunt Team, who has worked on several of Chan's films including Rob-B-Hood, Divergence and Invisible Target. The screenplay was co-written by Alan Yuen, who has previously collaborated with Chan on films such as Rob-B-Hood and New Police Story.
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“The heart of man ever finds a constant succession of passions, so that the destroying and pulling down of one proves generally to be nothing else but the production and the setting up of another.”
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“The growing of food and the growing of children are both vital to the family’s survival.... Who would dare make the judgment that holding your youngest baby on your lap is less important than weeding a few more yards in the maize field? Yet this is the judgment our society makes constantly. Production of autos, canned soup, advertising copy is important. Housework—cleaning, feeding, and caring—is unimportant.”
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“An art whose limits depend on a moving image, mass audience, and industrial production is bound to differ from an art whose limits depend on language, a limited audience, and individual creation. In short, the filmed novel, in spite of certain resemblances, will inevitably become a different artistic entity from the novel on which it is based.”
—George Bluestone, U.S. educator, critic. “The Limits of the Novel and the Limits of the Film,” Novels Into Film, Johns Hopkins Press (1957)