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Woo to Direct Chinese Civil War Film?
While John Woo is in post-production on Red Cliff, his return to Hong Kong filmmaking, Monkey Peaches is reporting he’s considering 1949 as his follow-up:
With John Woo’s mega-budget historical war drama Red Cliff in post-production, title of his next possible project has surfaced online. 1949, according to Sina.com, is about the Chinese Civil War (1946 - 1950). In the year of 1949 is a major turning point in Chinese history, Mao Tze-Tung declared the founding of a new government with the communist-led Liberation Army taking control of much of China, while Chiang Kai-shek’s Nationalist government fled to Taiwan. Woo has been talking with Wang Hui-Ling about the screenplay. Taiwanese woman writer Wang has been involved in many projects by Ang Lee, including Couching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and Lust, Caution.
Yeah, but he’ll probably
Yeah, but he’ll probably get Jet Li to play Abe Lincoln.
Lincoln Dropped the Bomb on Nagasaki
Honest Abe got a lot of negotiating done in 1949.