Five other sites set to feature in the movie are:
Kingston Beach, Milford Sound, Rees Valley, Skippers Canyon and Naseby Forest.
Don-Kun Jang, dubbed as "South Korea's Tom Cruise,"
is filming "Laundry Warrior," his new Hollywood film, in Aukland just now.
With a massive budget of about 40 million U.S.
dollars, it is an action film fusing kung fu and Western gunfight elements.
People might wonder why this Western film is being
filmed in faraway New Zealand rather than in the United States.
Actually it is the diversified terrain that matters.
From snow-capped mountains to volcanoes, seashore to
straits, and rain forest to grassland, New Zealand boasts a uniquely natural and
pure environment. As New Zealand's largest city, Auckland has a beautiful
nickname, "The City of Sails."
Wellington is home to Peter Jackson, acclaimed
director of the "Lord of the Rings" trilogy and "King Kong." He returns to the
city as the location of "The Lovely Bones," a film adaptation of the 2002
best-selling book of the same name by Alice Sebold.
It is the story of a 14-year-old girl from suburban
Pennsylvania who is murdered by her neighbor. She tells the story from Heaven,
observing the lives of the people around her and how they have all changed while
attempting to find her lost body.
Jackson portrays his hometown as a heaven with
fantastic scenery.
Directed by Michael Apted, "The Chronicles of Narnia:
Voyage of the Dawn Treader" is 60-percent sets in New Zealand.
The Bay of Islands, Coromandel, New Plymouth, Hawkes
Bay and Gisborne are all featured in the film.
An increased presence of New Zealand on the silver
screen is expected to prove a strong draw to tourists looking to enjoy the
island nation's stunningly pristine natural scenery.
(Source: Shanghai
Daily)
