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Start date for Reeves’ Tai-Chi Tiger

A couple of years ago Keanu Reeves announced his intention to help finance and develop a new martial arts movie starring Chen Hu. Seems that film has found it’s legs.

Reeves, says Club Keanu, is putting his money where his mouth is, bankrolling the new martial-arts flick ”Tai-Chi Tiger” which now has a start date of April 2011.

Fighting machine Hu will star in the film playing some sort of Kung-Fu master.

Back when it was first announced, Reeves had also expressed interest in acting in the film, mentioning he’d be up for playing a villain. That might still be the case, if these photos are anything to go by it’d seem Reeves has been practicing his Tai-Chi skills in Los Angeles over the past couple of months.

Reeves, of course, cut his teeth as a martial artist on ”The Matrix” movies and it’s there that he met Chen Hu. Hu helped Reeves train for the sequels.

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