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WKW Update: Blueberry Night, Lady Details
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According to a roundup at Monkey Peaches, several Hong
Kong newspapers this morning are reporting that Wong
Kar-Wai's My Blueberry Night - his first film shot in English, and
first on American soil - is scheduled to go into production in June. Reassuringly, it's NOT going to be about
Hurricane Katrina, despite earlier rumors that mistakenly combined this film with Wong's stated interest in making a movie
about Katrina's effects. Instead, the film, which stars Norah Jones,
Rachel Weisz and (this one's new) Jude
Law, is going to be a road movie, "shot on multiple locations from New York to California, including Las
Vegas." Yes, I'm a huge WKW whore who will love pretty much anything he does, but I still think this sounds
fantastic, particularly if Christopher Doyle is involved - just
imagine how he'd shoot Vegas, or the deserts of the American southwest. That thought actually just gave me chills.The Monkey Peaches report also confirms that The Lady from Shanghai has been delayed, and will be shot after both Blueberry Night and Baz Luhrmann's untitled Aussie epic, in which Wong's star Nicole Kidman is appearing alongside Russell Crowe.
Wong Kar-Wai, Norah Jones, and blueberries
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In addition to the two new movies about which
we've already heard - The Lady from
Shanghai (thankfully not a remake)
and his Katrina-except-in-NYC flick - Wong Kar Wai is reportedly
working on a third film called Blueberry Nights. Like both Lady and the Katrina film, it will be shot
in New York, and is expected to be Wong's first English-language project. The film is set to star Norah
Jones, and Rachel Weisz, too, might be involved - she's told the
press that she is going to appear in Wong's "next film," but it's unclear which project she's talking about
(or, indeed, if she even knows). The movie will be based (at least right now - who knows what will happen once Wong
starts filming) on a short in which "a shopkeeper falls for a mysterious female client who eats blueberry
pies." Call me crazy, but that sounds awesome - after all, half of Chungking Express revolves around a guy eating canned pineapple, and that movie is practically perfect. Blueberry Nights has a budget of about $10 million and is expected to start shooting in New York sometimes before The Lady from Shanghai, which was recently pushed back, goes into production in 2007.
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