I will stay with yesterday’s theme of remakes to highlight another upcoming film. Hong Kong indie film superstar Wong Kar Wei is at the helm of The Lady from Shanghai. The film will star Nicole Kidman and Hugh “Wolverine” Jackman. Orson Wells shot the original film in the 1940s.
The difference between Lady from Shanghai and the remake of Bangkok Dangerous is that Wong Kar Wei has always proven himself to be outside of the usual commercial pressures put on directors by studios. His early projects were shot without scripts and were marked by their dark-yet-intimate feel. Wong fans will have to wait until next year to find out if the director can carry the magic of his earlier films (Chungking Express, In the Mood for Love) with a studio breathing down his neck. Something tells me Wong would not have signed on to do Lady from Shanghai if he were not given a certain amount of control over the filming.
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