Chen Kaige is a busy man. Oh yes. Apparently.
What’s for sure is that director Chen of 霸王别姬 (Farewell My Concubine), 荊柯刺秦王 (The Emperor and the Assassin) and Killing Me Softly fame (gee, that’s like going from a Pagani Zonda to an Aston Martin DB9, to end up with a 1970s tractor carrying cow manure) is currently working on 梅兰芳 (Mei Lanfang). About the life of qingyi legend Mei Lan (film title was his stage name), the Us$ 15 Million period epic will have a huge cast, with Zhang Ziyi, Leon Lai, Chen Daoming, Ando Masanobu, Sun Honglei and Gillian Chung. Now, what could become his next work is slated to be an adaptation of famous Yuan Dynasty play 趙氏孤兒 (The Orphan of Zhao). But now the interesting bit: TV stars (and real life couple) Zhang Guoli and Deng Jie were raising funds already for their own version of the film,...
What’s for sure is that director Chen of 霸王别姬 (Farewell My Concubine), 荊柯刺秦王 (The Emperor and the Assassin) and Killing Me Softly fame (gee, that’s like going from a Pagani Zonda to an Aston Martin DB9, to end up with a 1970s tractor carrying cow manure) is currently working on 梅兰芳 (Mei Lanfang). About the life of qingyi legend Mei Lan (film title was his stage name), the Us$ 15 Million period epic will have a huge cast, with Zhang Ziyi, Leon Lai, Chen Daoming, Ando Masanobu, Sun Honglei and Gillian Chung. Now, what could become his next work is slated to be an adaptation of famous Yuan Dynasty play 趙氏孤兒 (The Orphan of Zhao). But now the interesting bit: TV stars (and real life couple) Zhang Guoli and Deng Jie were raising funds already for their own version of the film,...
- 8/12/2008
- by X
- Screen Anarchy
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