[NEWS] Wong Kar-Wai Faces Katrina

**agent_provocateur** · 02-06-2006, 02:13 PM

This just in...WKW to direct a Katrina movie...this should be interesting, after all he is the master of establishing, building and maintaining sexual tension

http://www.chud.com/index.php?type=news&id=5857

IN THE MOOD FOR A HURRICANE
02.06.06
By Devin Faraci
Contributing sources: Nathan, Newsday

Wong Kar-Wai, the masterful Chinese director behind films like In the Mood For Love, 2046, Chungking Express and Happy Together, is coming to America. He wants to make a movie based on Hurricane Katrina, based on true stories in and around the massive disaster.

Wong wanted to shoot the film in New Orleans, and went so far as to scout locations, but decided that the damage is still too severe, so he’ll be filming in New York City. He wants Adrian Brody to star, but the emaciated thespian won’t sign on until he sees a completed script – something he had no qualms about before King Kong, which didn’t have a finished script until well into shooting.

I imagine that the film will focus on at least one bittersweet love story, in typical Wong fashion. It will probably be competing with a Spike Lee project about the hurricane – if Spike can get the investors together. Of course I imagine that Wong had an easier time rustling up his 50 million dollar budget than Spike will, since I doubt Wong is going to be spending any time showing how the US government blew up the levees.

**kryzchek** · 02-06-2006, 02:42 PM

Is the movie going to have ninjas fighting the hurricane?

**agent_provocateur** · 02-06-2006, 10:42 PM

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Originally Posted by kryzchek

Is the movie going to have ninjas fighting the hurricane?

have you ever seen a WKW film? boy meets katrina, boy falls in love with katrina, boy engulfed by katrina is more like it

**dillPickle** · 02-06-2006, 11:20 PM

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Originally Posted by kryzchek

Is the movie going to have ninjas fighting the hurricane?

i bet. Wong Kar Wai is the master of Asian action/crime drama flicks. I doubt there will be any women. or cellos.

02-06-2006, 11:22 PM

I thought they already made a movie about Katrina... it was called:

CNN

**agent_provocateur** · 02-06-2006, 11:29 PM

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Originally Posted by dillPickle

i bet. Wong Kar Wai is the master of Asian action/crime drama flicks. I doubt there will be any women. or cellos.

action? crime? are you sure you are not confusing WKW with say john woo?

/sarcasm eh?

**finn34** · 02-06-2006, 11:50 PM

I hope it'll have the same resonance as "Chung King Express" or "2046"

right on, Mr. Kar-Wai, for choosing such a perfect subject.

I'm very excited about the prospects, even vaguely assembled as they are.

My idea of this reads somewhat like Murakami's "After The Quake", a story (or series of stories) about people's reaction to disaster.

Rich with story ideas and themes to play with...

**jase** · 02-06-2006, 11:53 PM

damn, you mean no Tony Leung?

i'm sure Chris Doyle will make the disaster look trendy!

02-06-2006, 11:58 PM

I don't get it

**agent_provocateur** · 02-07-2006, 09:31 AM

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Originally Posted by jase

damn, you mean no Tony Leung?

i'm sure Chris Doyle will make the disaster look trendy!

apparently they got into major arguments during the shooting of 2046 and there were some controversies when doyle won some awards for cinematography because he wasnt there for the reshoots or something