On 7th February 2008, another Jay Chou’s movie will be screening on local cinemas. The film seems to be going under the title of Kung Fu Dunk (功夫灌篮) in Asia, and Slam Dunk for International release.

With a production budget of US$10 million, the movie is the biggest production in Taiwan’s history.

During the pre-production period, the lead actress role has been previously offered to stars such as Korean singer, BoA. But due to her busy schedule she passed the roll to Korean actress, Yoon Eun Hye. Due to schedule conflicts, the producers settled on casting Hong Kong singer and actress Charlene Choi. Houston Rockets center Yao Ming but due to injury he won’t be able to make his debut on this movie.

Here is how the story begin… Shi-Jie (Jay Chou), grew up in a Martial Arts School. Hence he is well verse in Marital Arts especially kung fu. With his kung fu skills and his good reflex, Shi-Jie excels in basketball by mastering the slam dunk skill. On the pretext of helping Shi-Jie find his family, Wang-Li (Eric Tsang) invited him to join a university’s basketball team in hopes of making money of it.

There Shi-Jie faces new challenges by finding his place on the basketball team with team mates Ting-Wei (Bo-Lin Chen) and Xiao-Lan (Baron Chen).

With upcoming Basketball championship games and appearance of Li-Li (Charlene Choi), will the team be able to put aside their difference and personal emotions for the love of the game.

Can’t wait for the movie to be release? Check out the trailer below: