Okay from monkeypeaches.com

It is also reviewed that Zhang Ziyi is also attached to star in two projects produced by The Weinsteins Company SHANGHAI, with Clive Owen (dont know anything about it yet. Anybody knows?) and that SEVEN SAMURAI remake.

I'm JOSH_H on IMDB and I posted the news on Clive Owen's board and got this response from a "MikeDeacon"

The only thing I have heard about it is this from Defamer, after the premiere in Venice:

"9/4 Clive Owen and a group of friendly folks had drinks at the bar (outside) after the premiere of "Children of Men". He was wearing velvet and was also quite polite and seemed approachable. When they were getting ready to leave, a big dumpy guy with baggy Levis hanging off his ass came up to them and talked to a small man who seemed to be someone important in the group. It turns out the big dumpy guy was Harvey Weinstein and he said this to the small man, loudly: "We'd really like Clive to do "Shanghai". I guess it's an upcoming project."

http://www.defamer.com/hollywood/mel-gibson/hollywood-privacywatch-mel-gibson-cigar-bar-sugartitkneading-incident-had-all-the-early-warning-signs-199466.php

I haven't heard that he has signed anything, but one can always hope... Thanks for posting this!

Ok I don't understand chinese. But if someone would be so kind so as to translate this article. Because I can clearly read "CLIVE OWEN" in it in English. I tried again google's language tool and got a really bad translation. It so doesn't make sense. So here's the link.

http://yule.sohu.com/20061102/n246159318.shtml

Guess I'm no longer a lurker anymore ha? MyMuseIsZiyi in terms of forums now. lol

Quaid, I think. Owen is on the way up and Quaid is on the way down. Of course, if she’s init, it will be HER film.

Weinstien make as many bad films as they make good films, so watch out for that. I still think the SEVEN SAMURAI film will be a mistake...unless they got a real clever way to get a Chinese girl into the mix. You can do anything in film. Somehow, the director got K. Kostner into ROBIN HOOD...as Robin Hood. Also they got the great Morgan Freeman into that film. Anything can happen. It just needs to make sense. Or maybe not. In Asia, I’m sure many, many people will go just to see Ziyi in anything. Such is the nature of an idol and any event involving an idol. I think only a few people know what Owen is all about.

I can only think Weinstiens made Ziyi an offer she couldn’t refuse.

What I love about this project is that both Ziyi and Clive Owen were invited to join the Academy the same year and at the same time.

http://www.oscars.org/press/pressreleases/2005/05.06.24.html

If you look on the Clive Owen board @ IMDB there's not one single person who found this possible pairing objectionable. The feeling I get from Clive Owen fans is they hope it happens. That this pairing happens.

Oh can anyone who understands how to read Chinese translate this article?

http://yule.sohu.com/20061102/n246159318.shtml
and this one too.
http://yule.sohu.com/20061106/n246215529.shtml

Anyways I'm going to sleep now and gear up for another day of AFI Film Fest/AFM.

From monkeypeaches.com

More on Zhang Ziyi's SHANGHAI (MonkeyPeaches Exclusive)
November 4, 2006

According to Greg's Previews (http://movies.yahoo.com/movie/preview/1808405829), Shanghai is a WWII thriller set in the Japanese occupied Shanghai. This story is: "An American undercover intelligence agent, living in Shanghai during the Second World War, seeks the truth about the death of a fellow spy, and begins an affair with the wife fo a local drug lord. A military official with the Japanese army reveals the agent's secret identity, but in the end, allows the agent and his love to escape." According to a previous report, both Zhang Ziyi and Clive Owen are sort of attached to the project. A gossip (http://www.defamer.com/hollywood/mel-gibson/hollywood-privacywatch-mel-gibson-cigar-bar-sugartitkneading-incident-had-all-the-early-warning-signs-199466.php) also confirms that Clive Owen is considered.

LINKS: http://movies.yahoo.com/movie/preview/1808405829
http://www.defamer.com/hollywood/mel-gibson/hollywood-privacywatch-mel-gibson-cigar-bar-sugartitkneading-incident-had-all-the-early-warning-signs-199466.php

Release Date: Unknown; that will depend upon when/if filming eventually gets started

Distributor: Miramax Pictures (picked up out of turnaround from Columbia Pictures)

Production Company: Phoenix Pictures, Shanghai Film Studio

Cast: None announced yet.

Director: Iain Softley (K-PAX, The Wings of the Dove, Hackers, Backbeat)

Screenwriter: Hossein Amini (The Wings of the Dove, Jude; next up are Four Feathers and a rewrite of The Great Raid); rewrite by Becky Johnson (The Mothman Prophecies)

Director Note:

4/14/00 - When this was at Columbia, it was to have been directed by Mike Newell (Pushing Tin, An Awfully Big Adventure, Four Weddings & a Funeral, Donnie Brasco). (4/15/02) Before Softley signed on, Miramax favorite John Madden (Shakespeare in Love, Mrs. Brown) was in talks.

Based Upon: This movie is said to be based upon an idea by Phoenix Pictures' Mike Medavoy, who grew up in Shanghai.

Not to be Confused With: This movie doesn't have anything to do with Shanghai Noon, the western starring Jackie Chan, or for that matter, the 1935 film with the same title.

Premise (quoted from Columbia): "An American undercover intelligence agent, living in Shanghai during the Second World War, seeks the truth about the death of a fellow spy, and begins an affair with the wife fo a local drug lord. A military official with the Japanese army reveals the agent's secret identity, but in the end, allows the agent and his love to escape."

Premise (quoted from Columbia):

4/15/02 - Here's what director Iain Softley told Variety today about why he signed on for this:

"For me, this is the opportunity to make an epic film on a larger scale. Rather like 'Casablanca,' it's about maneuverings in a cosmopolitan city. It's set at a time when the Japanese were in control of China, and the Japanese fleet was in (Shanghai Bay). There was a German presence in the city, a gangster element and opium lords."

Genre: Drama, Historical, Romance

Filming: (1/17/01) There's no word when production might start on this movie. In the spring of 2000, Sony was listing it as a 2001 release, but a production date was never announced. (6/21/01) Miramax is apparently moving forward fairly quickly on this project... I expect to hear about a filming start date within the next six months or so. Production will definitely take place in Shanghai, China. (4/15/02) Production is now scheduled to start in late 2002. (10/1/02) Hmmmm... well, it's six months later, and there hasn't been a peep about this movie since. Has that late 2002 start been postponed? (2/24/03) Production is now expected to start in Shanghai sometime later this year, 2003. (11/15/03) "Variety" reports that this project has been set aside for now due to negotiation problems between Miramax and Sony.

Status: In Development

http://movies.yahoo.com/movie/preview/1808405829

Not B. Pitt (not mature enough), or Sean Connery(too damned old). I suppose I could have my arm bent to do it also.

Ziyi will be perfect.

That sounds good to me.:agree:

Zhang Ziyi, Dennis Quaid to star in crime thriller 'Horsemen'

HONG KONG (AP) - Chinese movie star Zhang Ziyi's new Hollywood project will be a crime thriller revolving around a series of killings that also stars Dennis Quaid, one of the movie's production companies said Tuesday.

In "Horsemen," Quaid plays a detective who discovers a personal connection to the suspects in a group of serial killings that are linked to the biblical characters Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, the production company, Los Angeles-based Mandate Pictures said in a statement.

Zhang plays a "manipulative young woman" who's crucial to solving the case, the statement said.

Jonas Akerlund, who made "Spun," about a drug-fuelled adventure, will direct, Mandate said.

Zhang rose to fame with her portrayal of a Chinese official's rebellious daughter in the Oscar-winning "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon." She has since gone on to a successful career that spans Chinese-language film and Hollywood.

Zhang was most recently seen in "Memoirs of a Geisha" and Chinese director Feng Xiaogang's "The Banquet," a Chinese adaptation of the Shakespeare "Hamlet."

The statement from Mandate also said Zhang will star in "Shanghai" with Clive Owen and "Seven Samurai," both produced by Harvey Weinstein's The Weinstein Co., without giving any detail.

"Seven Samurai" was earlier reported as a remake of the 1954 Akira Kurosawa classic about a group of warriors who defend a village attacked by bandits. Zhang will reportedly play a village girl who dresses as a man to protect herself.

Set during the Second World War, "Shanghai" is about an American undercover intelligence agent who investigates the death of a fellow spy and has an affair with the wife of a Shanghai drug lord, according to the movie website Greg's Previews.

Zhang's manager, Ling Lucas, declined comment on the actress' involvement in "Shanghai" and "Seven Samurai," saying in an e-mail to The Associated Press it's "too early" to discuss the movies in detail.

Zhang also confirmed earlier she's interested in another Weinstein movie about the Chinese folk hero Hua Mulan, who replaces her father in battle. The character inspired the Disney animated movie by the same name.

http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/capress/061106/entertainment/film_zhang_ziyi_1

to rumors.

It’s not a film yet, anyhow.

This film isn't a rumor. The trades (Variety) and a production company have said that Ziyi will be in this film. So it's not a rumor. It's going to happen.

I hope this film happens too.

Confirmed: the dotted line hasn't been signed yet.
however, when i have confirmed through that source before it usually means that its a "wish for", The sensation it creates is always good hype.

I tend to trust in Lings implication or hints over any other..."too earlly for yes or no"....
but, as expected.... the press are running with it..(this is not a bad thing ).but the cuteones participation is nither confimed or denied ...... to date.

The cuteone :love: is gonna be extremely busy if she takes up all the options offered to her at the moment.
I hoep she gets some spare time to see family and collect some more hats.:D


thanks MyMuseIsZiyi, your reporting is good work and much appreciated

out of the rumors section and start to focus on it.

I too think this could be perfect for Ziyi. If the script, and the director are right. There’s still a number of thing that can go wrong...and I expect if they do go wrong, Ziyi will pass.

There are thousands of other Chinese girls over there who will do this film...under any circumstances.