Crouching Tiger, Spending Weinsteins
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Looking for a The Lord of the Rings of their very own, the Weinstein brothers
have acquired the rights to a series of five martial arts novels by Wang Du Lu. Collectively known as the
Crane-Iron Pentalogy, the books gained exposure to a world-wide audience (though that audience probably didn't
know it at the time) when the fourth in the series was used as the source for Ang
Lee's wildly successful Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon.
The planned movies - the most exciting of which will inevitably be Precious Sword, Golden Hairpin - will
function as prequels and a sequel to Lee's film. In addition to crowing about how these upcoming marital arts films are "an opportunity to do something revolutionary" (What that means is anyone's guess - cast Asian actors in Hollywood? Make a movie with the word "hairpin" in the title?), the Weinsteins also announced tentative plans to create a stage version of Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. Yikes. Why do I immediately think of Andrew Lloyd Webber and a completely inappropriate emphasis on visual effects?
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3-10-2006 @ 2:32PM
matriculated said...
Well, they had gold right in their hands with the distribution rights to the last 2 Stephen Chow movies and they screwed up the marketing and releases of both of those. Why won't they screw this up?
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