THE IRON MASK (12A)

WHO’S IN IT?

Jason Flemyng (The Curious Case of Benjamin Button), Charles Dance (The Imitation Game), Rutger Hauer (Blade Runner), Jackie Chan (Rush Hour), Helen Yao (Love Without Distance), Arnold Schwarzenegger (The Terminator), Martin Klebba (Project X), Christopher Fairbank (Lady Macbeth), Igor Jijikine (The Tourist)

WHO’S BEHIND THE CAMERA?

Oleg Stepchenko (Forbidden Kingdom), director, writer; Aleksey Petrukhin (Forsaken), writer, producer; Dmitry Paltsev (film debut), writer; Sergei Bespalov (Machete Kills), Jackie Chan (The Foreigner), Yingchun Fang (I Do), Gleb Fetisov (Loveless), Peikang La (Wolf Totem), Sergey Selyanov (Sheep and Wolves) and Maofei Zhou (Railroad Tigers), producers; Aleksandra Maghakyan (The Conquest of Siberia), composer; Ivan Gudkov (Kacheli) and Man-Ching Ng (Rise of the Legend), cinematographers; Petr Zelenov (Three Seconds), editor

WHAT’S IT ABOUT?

English traveller Jonathan Green (Flemyng) is ordered to map out the Russian Far East, and so he sets out on a grand adventure that takes him all the way to China. There, he comes face to face with breath-taking discoveries, bizarre creatures, Chinese princesses, deadly martial arts masters, and even the Dragon King…

IN ONE SENTENCE, WHY SHOULD YOU BE EXCITED?

This Russian-Chinese co-production is a sequel to the hit Russian adventure movie Forbidden Kingdom, the success of which has brought in big names like Jackie Chan and Arnold Schwarzenegger for small but memorable parts.

WHEN’S IT OUT?

FRIDAY 10TH APRIL 2020 (AVAILABLE ON VOD)

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