Watch the first trailer for 'Revenge of the Green Dragons'

"The True Story of New York's Most Notorious Street Gang"



We have the newly dropped trailer for the crime drama Revenge of the Green Dragons. Directed by Andrew Lau and Andrew Loo, and executive produced by Martin Scorsese, the movie is based on a 1992 New Yorker article that chronicled the underworld of Asian American gang life in 1980s and 90s New York City.

Production begins on Revenge of the Green Dragons

Some interesting movie news... It looks like we'll be seeing the likes of Harry Shum Jr., Justin Chon, KevJumba and MC Jin starring in Revenge of the Green Dragons.

Production has already begun on the gangster action thriller, which is inspired by a New Yorker article on the Chinese American underworld. Directed by Hong Kong filmmaker Andrew Lau and executive produced by Martin Scorsese, the 1980s-set crime drama tells the story of two immigrant siblings' rise and fall within a New York Chinatown gang, the Green Dragons. So who's in the movie?

The film's IMDb page already lists Glee's Harry Shum Jr. and Eugenia Yuan as part of the cast. But some rumors began circulating this week that Justin, Kevin and Jin have roles in the movie. The speculation seemed to be confirmed by a couple of intriguing tweets between the actors.

Martin Scorsese will executive produce Andrew Lau's crime drama Revenge of the Green Dragons

Some cool film news... None other than Martin Scorsese will serve as executive producer on director Andrew Lau's upcoming gangster action thriller Revenge of the Green Dragons, which is set in New York City: Martin Scorsese to Executive Produce Andrew Lau's 'Green Dragons.'

It's a fitting match, considering that Scorsese won his first and only Academy Award in 2006 for the crime drama The Departed, which was a Hollywood remake of Lau's awesome 2002 Hong Kong undercover cops-and-gangsters drama Infernal Affairs (photo above). This could be cool.

The script for Revenge of the Green Dragons was inspired by a New Yorker article on the Chinese American underworld, and tells the story of two Chinese siblings' rise and fall within a New York gang: