Twitch talks DRUG WAR

Johnnie To's much-anticipated new film, DRUG WAR, is his first made in mainland China. The folks over at Twitch caught up with To at Toronto Film Fest to ask him about his experience, and pop the hundred million dollar question:

We're getting a time-warning so this is the last question: you are very popular at Twitch, and last week we published an article about us hoping someone would give you a hundred million US dollars to make a movie with. What kind of film would you make with that budget?
What, with one hundred million dollars? [chuckles]
For that amount of money I wouldn't make a film, I would start a new movie studio in Hong Kong! [we all laugh]
 
But if it had to be a film? Many Hollywood blockbusters have a budget like that these days, so we wondered...
Well... no. I would never, ever, make a single film with that sort of budget. I would make plenty of smaller ones. Maybe a hundred! 


C'mon, folks! Surely someone out there can pony up the hundred mil to create Johnny To's new studio in Hong Kong. Hong Kong action film revival? It's Johnnie To, y'all! If one-tenth of you nerds cared as much about this film as you do about Ben Affleck playing Batman, I wouldn't be up on this clock tower with a rifle.