Your trusted spy was the first one to inform you that China was turning
Giacomo Puccini's
TURANDOT opera into a film starring
Guan Xiaotong and
Dylan Sprouse and now we are also among the first ones to present you with the first trailer and character posters for this extravaganza of an action adventure film! The movie, which was produced under the helm of
Xiaolong Zheng, also stars legendary French stars
Sophie Marceau and
Vincent Perez alongside Asian stars
Hu Jun, Collin Chou and
Lin Siyi! The film which was shot back in 2018 had its world premiere over at Shanghai
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Vincent Perez and Sophie Marceau also star in the film
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International Film Festival back in June, but does not still have an official release date in China nor rest of the world. Check out the trailer below and tell us what you think.
a fantasy romance, follows Princess Turandot (
Guan Xiaotong), who is cursed by a mysterious power emanating from three Mazovian bracelets that
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Xialong Zheng directed the epic fantasy adventure
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were given to her as birthday gifts. The life draining effects of the bracelets cause the princess to become cruel, and gradually she loses her humanity.
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The film is based on one of Puccini's most famous operas
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Foreign princes who come to court her must solve three riddles, one for each bracelet, and only then will she be freed from the power of the bracelets. In the event any of the questions is answered incorrectly, the attempted solver would
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Turandot was shot back in 2018 and then went into postproduction
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be put to death. One day, Calaf
(Dylan Sprouse), an ordinary citizen, risks his life to answer the riddles to save her and inadvertently uncovers his own extraordinary past.
