Patrick Frater Asia Bureau ChiefChinese streaming giant iQIYI reports that it has started production on “Fox Volant of the Snowy Mountain,” a film adapted from the classic novel of the same name by Louis Cha (aka Jin Yong), a renowned Hong Kong novelist who was one of the most read Chinese-language authors of the 20th century.Cha, who also co-founded the Ming Pao newspaper, and directed two films, is best known for his wuxia (chivalric martial arts) novels that with one exception stretch in time from the 11th to the 18th century.
He died in October 2018 and received a celebrity memorial with Alibaba founder Jack Ma in attendance.An estimated 90 films and TV series have been made as adaptations of Cha’s 15 wuxia novels, though iQIYI says.
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