Internet Comic Bringing Home the Bacon


It has been more than a year and a half since Internet prankster Hu Ge achieved overnight fame for the Web clip, “A Murder Sparked by a Chinese Bun.” The popular 20-minute video produced by easy video software was a parody of the farfetched storyline of filmmaker then Kaige’s kung fu epic, “The Promise.”

Now the latest project of Hu, a 33-year-old freelancer from Wuhan in Hubei Province, is an original comic short, “007 Versus the Prince of Pork.” In this 30-minute stalker film which is now shooting, agent James Bond has a new mission: catching the Prince of Pork who left heaven without permission of the immortals and is now engaged in scrambling for pork. Via China.org

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