Zhang Ziyi in "Horsemen"
Posted: 09 Nov 2006, 12:38
As for another remake of Seven Samurai, I would sayHONG KONG: 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-fueled adventure, will direct, Mandate said.
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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 World War II, "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 Web site 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.
But no one has said the same about Musa or Seven Swords which are sort of tributes to Seven Samurai (more so Seven Swords).http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2006/11/ ... _Movie.php
