Ip Man’ To Be Back With 5th Movie, Not Clear If Donnie Yen Will Star On-Screen

‘Ip Man’ To Be Back With 5th Movie, Unclear If Donnie Yen Will Appear On-Screen

Ip Man 5 will be the sixth film in the franchise, which currently consists of four parts and one spin-off. The return of the cult martial arts series, as well as two other action films starring the actor, were first shown at the Cannes Film Festival in France.

According to Screen Daily, Mandarin Motion Pictures announced at the Cannes Film Festival that the Ip Man franchise is returning. This happened four years after the release of the supposedly last part in 2019. Donnie Yen himself later confirmed the news through the official Ip Man 5 poster in an Instagram post.

Details on its release date and plot have yet to be released, but fans are already buzzing in excitement. The film comes as a pleasant surprise to Ip Man fans, as ‘Ip Man 4: The Finale’ was previously released to mark the end of the series. Fans were clearly devastated by the end of the series, as the film generated more than S$237m (US$176.3m) box office sales worldwide.

in fact – spoiler alert – his character supposedly died in the fourth film. Nevertheless, the element of surprise makes the movie an all-the-more welcome addition to fans. It thus remains to be seen how the fifth movie will unfold. Perhaps it’ll be a flashback of his past, or maybe he’ll come back to life somehow — we can never know with popular heroes.

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The unexpected ‘Ip Man 5’ announcement came alongside two other action-film announcements. They are namely ‘Flash Point Resurgence’, a sequel to ‘Flash Point’ starring Yen in 20o7, and ‘Misjudgement’. Yen will reportedly be leading in all three movies, though his exact role is unclear. What’s certain, however, is that the 60-year-old actor is still going strong with his craft, years after his on-screen debut in ‘Drunken Tai Chi’ in 1984.