Amazing is so amazing, it is amazing. South Korea, China (via the Shanghai Film Group), and the NBA team up to give us a film that could only be made by amazing people. The amazing Amazing features real NBA stars interacting in a virtual world playing basketball. Carmelo Anthony, Dwight Howard, Scottie Pippen, Magic Johnson, Yi Jianlian, and Wang Zhizhi will go all B-ball on T-ron in the virtual world video game Basketball Revolution. The Basketball Revolution game is also being reported as “The Sixth Sense” in some news reports, which is alwo weird. So who knows what the final name will be. Kim Ah-Jung plays one of the creaters of the game, and Huang Xiao-Ming plays her boyfriend, both of whom are drawn into the Tron Basketball drama. Because it is dramaful. Eric Mabius from Ugly Betty also joins the drama, because basketball, fools! Sherwood Hu Xue-Hua directs.
The original plot for Amazing was told to the press as “a basketball-themed movie about young people achieving their dreams through hard work.” Um, yeah. I guess they forgot to mention the whole virtual reality thing!
But no write-up can match the ridiculousness of the trailer. You need to see the trailer above. Need to see it.
Here’s another trailer that gets smart and shows less of the Tron action:
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Jennifer Loria
May 15, 2013 at 3:52 pmThe film will be opening the 2013 Shanghai International Film Festival in June and then officially released across Chinese Territory in July. The soundtrack will be available via iTunes. You can find out more about the movie on our site.