Opium poppy flowers turn to unripe seed pods, the

 

Opium poppy flowers turn to unripe seed pods, the seed pods produce white milk-like juice, the juice is turned to dark-color raw opium, raw opium is boiled, baked and fermented to produce brown-color cooked opium, cooked opium is converted to heroin base, heroin base is purified to produce heroin of various forms, the heroin is then smuggled to much of the world and finally sold to millions of addicts to be absorbed by their bodies. There is the complete life-cycle of opium based drugs director Yee Tung-Shing and producer Peter Chan intend to exhibit in Prot�g�. Yee spent three years to gather information, from addicts to people in the industry, before he finally decided to make it earlier this year.

 

Daniel Wu plays Ah Lik, who has been the prot�g� and named successor of drug lord Brother Gwan (Andy Lau) for eight years. Gwan, who controls the entire heroin market of Hong Kong, has never told Ah Lik where the drug was manufactured and stored and has never let him meet other members of the ring. Until one day, Gwan decides to retire and begins telling Ah Lik everything he needs to know. Director Yee Tung-Shing is now in Chiang Mai of northern Thailand shooting a scene of Gwan introducing Ah Lik to a local drug cartel。

 

Director Yee Tung-Shing tries to fully reveal the chilling reality of drugs to warn people about the dangerousness of drugs. He said, “taking soft drugs is popular among today’s young people and most dangerously, one out ten persons, who are exposed to soft drugs, will probably go into the extreme and sink into the world of drugs.”

 

The stories of Prot�g� will be told in a format similar to that of Steven Soderbergh’s Traffic. Andy Lau, Daniel Wu, Louis Koo, Anita Yuen and Zhang Jingchu portray five characters each plays a role in the world of drugs. Both director Yee Tung-Shing and producer Peter Chan have claimed Prot�g� would be a movie with no stars but actors. It will be released in Hong Kong, the mainland China, Taiwan and Singapore by mid-February.

Source: monkeypeaches.com