Chinese James Bond movie on the cards

BEIJING - A Beijing-based businessman from the United States is seeking $20 million from investors to fund a Chinese-style action adventure movie that he hopes will rival the James Bond franchise.

Craig Quick, who is well known in the city's music circles, presented a proposal to interested parties on April 24, including a summary of the film's plot, as part of the Beijing Film Festival.

Media veteran Quick, who is now the vice-president of Heshan Media, introduced bilingual radio to China through the program JOY FM on China Radio International as managing director of Broadcast East Asia Territories (BEAT) in the late 1990s. BEAT had operations in Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Hong Kong, Taiwan and the Philippines. He also created, licensed and staffed three radio stations in Hong Kong for the billionaire Li Ka Shing's Metro Broadcast Corp from 1990 to 1995. He was one of four broadcast professionals who did the startup planning for STAR TV before it was sold to international media mogul Rupert Murdoch. While in Hong Kong Quick was a Governor's appointee to the board of directors at Hong Kong Culture and Arts Foundation.