The first posters of the upcoming movie "Bodyguards and Assassins" (formerly as "Dark October") were released during the Cannes Film Festival, held May 13-24 in Cannes, France.

The movie is about a group of people protecting Sun Yat Sen against assassination when he was in Hong Kong to raise funds in October 1905.

The 150m yuan film produced by Peter Chan, action directed by Stephen Tung Wai, begins production in early April 2009 and would be released in December 2009.

(CRI May 13, 2009)