Fatal Move - Production

Production

Fatal Move reunites writer, producer and director Dennis Law, with initially the same crew and several actors he used to make the 2006 film Fatal Contact. The film is a Hong Kong production distributed by China Star Entertainment Group, and produced by One Hundred Years of Film Co. Ltd., along with Law's production company Point of View Movie Production Co. Ltd. The film was executive produced by Charles Heung, whose son Jacky Heung appears in the film in a supporting role. Acclaimed Hong Kong filmmaker Herman Yau, who has frequently collaborated with Law and Heung, served as a cinematographer, while Nicky Li, a member of the Jackie Chan Stunt Team served as a fight and stunt choreographer. Fatal Move was shot with a budget of HK$20 million.

Law originally wanted the film to be a sequel to SPL: Sha Po Lang, which would focus on the Sammo Hung character for that film. Law then realized that the prequel/sequel idea had limited potential, especially when he wanted to show the relationship between the Sammo Hung and Wu Jing characters from SPL. Though it has themes similar to SPL, and reunites Wu Jing and Sammo Hung, Law’s Fatal Move is a completely original work.

For his film, Law wanted to set his sights on North American audiences, by assembling a cast of familiar actors that are best known to them, such as Sammo Hung, Ken Lo, Simon Yam and Danny Lee. Law believes that the martial arts scenes are the strongest asset of Fatal Move, in particular, the major weapon fight scene between Sammo Hung and Wu Jing.

Filming occurred for two months in Hong Kong, beginning with a production inauguration on 1 August 2007.