lust, caution....by ang lee
Ang Lee is working on a film called Lust, Caution, adapted from a short story written by a chinese woman writer.
Set in the post-1941 Shanghai which was under the Japanese occupation. Based on Eileen Chang's same name story, which was inspired by a real event, Lust, Caution tells about a young woman assigned to seduce and assassinate an intelligence officer working for the Japanese puppet government in Shanghai. After realizing she had fallen in love with the man, she did something she was not suppose to do. Little known mainland Chinese actress Tang Wei plays the young woman, Hong Kong veteran Leung Chiu-Wai plays the intelligence officer and New York-born pop singer Wang Lee-Hom plays a comrade of the young woman.
producer is Bill Kong, who produced Lee's cthd, Zhang Yimou's Hero and HoFD, and Fearless. screenplay is by Wang Hui-Ling, who wrote the scripts of Eat Drink Man Woman and cthd for Ang Lee. production to start around Nov '06, to be shot mostly in shanghai.
Ang Lee's assistant said they would not rule out casting anyone, including anyone who's already worked in Ang Lee previous films, for example Zhang Ziyi. what are the chances that ZZ will be in this film??? can't wait to hear who's been cast. daniel? cyf again?? andy again?? how 'bout TK, cos he's itching to work with lee.
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