‘Ip Man: The Final Flight’ on Wing Chun master to open Hong Kong film festival next month

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In this Feb. 21, 2013 photo released by China\'s Xinhua News Agency, from right to left: director of opening film "Ip Man: The Final Fight" Herman Yau Lai-To, producer Xian Guo-lin, actor Anthony Wong attend a press conference of the 37th Hong Kong International Film Festival in Hong Kong. "Ip Man: The Final Fight," about the latter years of the Wing Chun master Ip Man, will open the Hong Kong International Film Festival that starts March 17. (AP Photo/Xinhua, Jin Yi) NO SALES

HONG KONG – “Ip Man: The Final Fight,” about the latter years of the Wing Chun master Ip Man, will open the Hong Kong International Film Festival next month.

The martial arts master has been portrayed many times on the big screen. The most recent was by Tony Leung in Wong Kar Wai’s “The Grandmaster.”

The new film’s leading man, Anthony Wong, says comparing the roles is hard because he plays a different time in Ip Man’s life.

He plays Ip Man from his arrival in Hong Kong in 1949 until his death and had some photos and video to watch. Wong says, “However, how he talked, how he behaved, no one really knows. That left a lot for the imagination.”

The lineup was announced Thursday for the festival that starts March 17.

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