Unlike most American TV shows where fight scenes are quick cuts and shaky cam, Into the Badlands features long, elaborate takes. The fights are dances—stylized, bloody, and beautiful. Daniel Wu, a veteran of Hong Kong cinema, brings legitimacy to the action, and the show employs some of the best fight choreographers in the industry.
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For three seasons and 32 episodes, Into the Badlands painted a world that was both hauntingly familiar and utterly bizarre: a feudal America without guns, where rival barons ruled through armies of clipper-trained assassins, and where one man’s quest for redemption triggered a bloody revolution. Unlike most American TV shows where fight scenes
Unlike the typical "dusty" wasteland of Mad Max , the Badlands are rendered in saturated, lush colors —from poppy fields to damp swamps—giving it a "live-action anime" aesthetic. The Art of Action Here is everything you need to know about the series
The mastermind behind this was Stephen Fung, a Hong Kong film director and action choreographer (and a childhood friend of Daniel Wu). AMC gave Fung and his team, including legendary fight coordinator Andy Cheng (a veteran of the Rush Hour franchise), an unprecedented amount of time to stage each fight. A typical episode took eight days to shoot; the fight sequences alone consumed four of those days.
Unlike most American TV shows where fight scenes are quick cuts and shaky cam, Into the Badlands features long, elaborate takes. The fights are dances—stylized, bloody, and beautiful. Daniel Wu, a veteran of Hong Kong cinema, brings legitimacy to the action, and the show employs some of the best fight choreographers in the industry.
Here is everything you need to know about the series.
For three seasons and 32 episodes, Into the Badlands painted a world that was both hauntingly familiar and utterly bizarre: a feudal America without guns, where rival barons ruled through armies of clipper-trained assassins, and where one man’s quest for redemption triggered a bloody revolution.
Unlike the typical "dusty" wasteland of Mad Max , the Badlands are rendered in saturated, lush colors —from poppy fields to damp swamps—giving it a "live-action anime" aesthetic. The Art of Action
The mastermind behind this was Stephen Fung, a Hong Kong film director and action choreographer (and a childhood friend of Daniel Wu). AMC gave Fung and his team, including legendary fight coordinator Andy Cheng (a veteran of the Rush Hour franchise), an unprecedented amount of time to stage each fight. A typical episode took eight days to shoot; the fight sequences alone consumed four of those days.
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