Production Budget Analysis

The production budget for Warriors of Future (2022) has not been publicly disclosed.

CAST: Louis Koo, Sean Lau Ching-wan, Carina Lau, Philip Keung Ho-Man, Gardner Tse Kwan-Ho, Janice Wu DIRECTOR: Ng Yuen-Fai CINEMATOGRAPHY: Ng Man-Ching MUSIC: Comfort Chan PRODUCTION: One Cool Films, Media Asia Films, World Universal Culture Limited, iQIYI Pictures （重复同 iQiyi Motion Pictures）, Tianjin Maoyan Media, CMC Pictures, Shenzhen Film Studio

Box Office Performance

Warriors of Future earned $100,730,000 in worldwide box office revenue.

Profitability Assessment

Insufficient publicly available data to assess profitability.

INDUSTRY IMPACT

PRODUCTION NOTES

▸ Production

The film was first announced in May 2015 under the title Virtus to be directed by Benny Chan and starring Louis Koo. Koo's film production company, One Cool Film Production worked on the film's visual effects, under a budget of HK$300 million.

Production began on 12 February 2017 on a set in Shenzhen which took two months to build. The film is directed by visual effects artist Ng Yuen-fai, who worked on the special effects for The Warlords, Bodyguards and Assassins and The White Storm. Aside from Koo, the cast also includes Sean Lau and Philip Keung, alongside newcomer actors Kevin Chu, Ng Siu-hin and Tony Wu. In March 2017, One Cool Film Production released a making of featurette teaser displaying its new title, Warriors of Future, and revealing the film's 36 month pre-production and its new budget of US$45 million. According to the teaser, production for the film is slated to take 4 months to complete while post-production will take 18 months. The film's four month shoot in Shenzhen completed in June 2017 and resumed its shoot in Hong Kong in August 2017. In March 2018, a new teaser trailer for the film was released. Aside from previous announced cast members, the trailer also featured new cast members such as Carina Lau, Nick Cheung and Tse Kwan-ho. On the same day, it was also reported that the film's production has increased to US$56 million.

AWARDS & RECOGNITION

Summary: 6 wins & 14 nominations total

CRITICAL RECEPTION

Rotten Tomatoes, a review aggregator, reports that 100% of five surveyed critics gave the film a positive review; the average rating is 6.5/10. Edmund Lee of the South China Morning Post gave the film a score of 3/5 stars and praises the film's visual effects as groundbreaking and a milestone in Hong Kong cinema while criticizing the film's lack of fresh ideas.