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Date: 2001-09-20 00:52:49

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Jet Li is the master... There is no doubt about it.  If he cant ask for $13 million for two big budget blockbuster movies which would take up a year of his life where he could be making one movie and earnign more, then no on can ask for that much.  He was approached for these sequels and crouching tiger before anyone else, including Chow Yun Fat and jacky Chan. There is a good reason for this, cos he is the best!  If faggot actors like Mel Gibson can ask for 20 million a movie without any real talent, except being able to speak a lot of bullsh*t, then Jet is definitely entitled for even more than 13 million.  Dont forget, even though Jet li played a rather small, villains part in Lethal weapon 4, his polpularity and stardom exceeded that of Mel Gibson in almost every country they went to promote LW4 except (of course) USA.  The producers of Matrix obviously want this to be an international blockbuster and not just a Hollywood flick, otherwise why would they be after genuine martial artists like Li and Yeoh?  Keanu Reaves poxy attempts to do Kung-Fu with the help of state of the art special effects would satisfy most ignorant viewers, but for genuine martial artists its a different story.  You cant put a price on Authenticity, thats why Li is the first man on the list whenever there is a Martial arts film being made.  Allthough Matrix is not a martial arts flick, they would want it to look as good as possible.  Keanu Reaves or Hugo Weaving trying to convince me that they can do Kung-Fu aint gonna happen, Reeves cant even convince me he can act :p