{"id":26072,"date":"2013-01-24T19:08:03","date_gmt":"2013-01-25T00:08:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/?p=26072"},"modified":"2013-01-24T19:12:23","modified_gmt":"2013-01-25T00:12:23","slug":"crouching-tiger-hidden-dragon-sequel-prepping-for-may-shoot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2013\/01\/24\/crouching-tiger-hidden-dragon-sequel-prepping-for-may-shoot\/","title":{"rendered":"CROUCHING TIGER, HIDDEN DRAGON Sequel Prepping For May Shoot"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"CrouchingTigerHiddenDragon\"<\/a>The Weinstein Company is prepping a sequel to Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon<\/strong>, Ang Lee’s 2000 Academy Award-winning martial arts drama.<\/p>\n

Deadline is reporting that the production company has a screenplay from The Forbidden Kingdom scripter John Fusco and are in talks with the director of the classic Hong Kong film The Bride With White Hair<\/strong> Ronny Yu to helm. Lee is reportedly not involved in the project.<\/p>\n

Fusco’s screenplay is reportedly based on Silver Vase, Iron Knight, the fifth novel in Chinese writer’s Wang Du Lu’s wuxia romance Crane-Iron<\/em> Pentalogy. Lee’s Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon<\/strong> was based on the fourth novel in the series, though the film did appropriate some plot points from earlier the three earlier novels in the series.<\/p>\n

The Crane-Iron<\/em> books have never been translated into English, but Silver Vase, Iron Knoight focuses on Yu Shu Lien, the character played by Michelle Yeoh in Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon<\/strong>. Fusco explained the plot of the film in broadstrokes to Deadline<\/a> –<\/p>\n

This introduces a new generation of star-crossed lovers, and a new series of antagonists in a battle of good and evil. It has a Knights Errant quality. There is an alternate universe in the books, a martial forest that exists alongside the real world, full of wandering sword fighters, medicine men, defrocked priests, poets, sorcerers and Shaolin renegades. It\u2019s so vast and rich, and I found characters from the second and third books in the series to create a most interesting stew while being as true to the source material as I could be.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Casting should get underway once Yu finalizes his deal with the Weinsteins. Fusco states that he expects Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon<\/strong> fight choreographer Wo Ping Yuen to return for the film.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ang Lee won’t be involved but BRIDE WITH WHITE HAIR director Ronny Yu is being line up.<\/div>\n