After the blockbuster Seven Swords swept the Chinese box office this summer holiday, the Hong Kong martial arts master Tsui Hark is already planning his next hit. 

Tsui Hark is said to be teaming up with Hong Kong veteran Stephen Chow for a new martial arts epic Warm-Blooded Society, an adaption of the cartoon of the same time.

The director says he won't jump immediately into filming the sequels to Seven Swords although seven episodes have been planned.

Tsui is also in talks with a French company about a new project White Phoenix, which is based on the novel by the Holland Sinologist Gao Pei. It is said to begin shooting in November.

(CRI August 23, 2005)