Government HQ at Admiralty gets first film role in Cold War
Admiralty complex will be featured in climax of Cold War, but only because film was over budget
Towards the end of the shoot for their directorial debut, , Sunny Luk Kim-ching and Longman Leung Lok-man had a problem - they had run out of time and money to film a huge passing-out parade for the grand finale of their police drama.
"Our producers told us we were already over budget and it was becoming very hard to accommodate the actors' schedules with ours, so we thought we might have to forgo our original idea," said Leung.
"Then we looked out of the window and said, well, how about we just rewrite that sequence and shoot it downstairs?"
The idea was not as odd as it sounds. Edko Films' offices in Admiralty sit across from the new government headquarters.
And, unbeknown to the filmmakers, became the first film to feature the Tamar complex as a backdrop.
It is perhaps fitting that concludes at Hong Kong's political nexus, given that the film - to be premiered on Thursday at the Busan International Film Festival in South Korea - is as much a political thriller as it is a cops-and-criminals adventure.
While the basic premise of the movie lies with attempts to locate a hijacked police van containing five officers, the bigger plot thread is the crisis caused by chaos at the top, with two deputy police commissioners trying to impose their varying notions of law and order on the force.
