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slashfilm.com - 4/30/2009

Zhang Yimou Remaking the Coen Bothers’ Blood Simple?

— slashfilm.com — Variety have announced a new project from Zhang Yimou , director of Hero and House of Flying Daggers . They call it Amazing Tales - Three Guns and describe it as having two separate parts, one a thriller and the other a comedy. It’s hard ... Zhang Yimou Remaking the Coen Bothers’ Blood Simple?

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Zhang Yimou Remaking the Coen Bothers’ Blood Simple?
/Film — Variety have announced a new project from Zhang Yimou, director of Hero and House of Flying Daggers. They call it Amazing Tales - Three Guns and describe it as having two separate parts, one a thriller and the other a comedy. It’s hard to not suspect this is the result of a bad translation and simply, the film is to be a comedy-thriller or, as we might say, one part comedy, one part thriller, just mixed parts. Here’s the bizarre bit, though. Monkey Peaches are reporting a rumor that the film is a remake of Blood Simple. Very, ...

Zhang Yimou Moving Forward with Three Guns Next
FirstShowing.net — ... , the creator/director/orchestrator and all-around genius behind the 2008 Summer Olympic Games' opening ceremony in Beijing, is starting work on his next film, called Amazing Tales - Three Guns, as reported by Variety today. The film is going to be part thriller, part comedy, and all visually stunning - if his previous films (House of Flying Daggers, Jet Li's Hero, Curse of the Golden Flower) are any indication. But the plot thickens. Those cinematic sleuths over at ...