Legend of the Condor Heroes Archives

Wuxia dramas and movies might be on the wane right now, but there's a sprawling epic new TV series that's currently outdoing The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power and The Wheel of Time. It's the most ambitious attempt at an epic story I've seen on TV for a while, and it's – what else? –[...]

The Khan is preparing his army to launch his invasion just as Huang Rong and Ouyang Fang arrive at the Steppes. Legends of the Condor Heroes: The Gallants is Flawed But the Most Authentically Gritty Version of the Story Fans of the original novel and past TV series adaptations of Legend of the Condor Heroes might complain that[...]

If you don't know Chinese, you might not know that right now, the biggest movie in the world is Legends of the Condor Heroes: The Gallants. This blockbuster adaptation of Jin Yong's classic wuxia epic novel, The Legend of the Condor Heroes, is one of the defining works of the wuxia genre. It stars Xiao Zhan as hero Guo[...]

Of Jin Yong's works, only Legend of the Condor Heroes has been translated into English so far Yen was approached by Chinese producer Wu Weijie, chairman of Beijing Wishart Media, to adapt the tale of two mortal enemies and their common love, that he took on not only the lead acting role but also came[...]