by mr.negativity » Fri Jan 25, 2013 4:47 am
[quote=" Sean O'Neal "]More than a decade after becoming one of the most successful foreign language films to hit the U.S., inspiring a brief craze for imported martial arts movies and nearly as many horrible spoof sequences as The Matrix, the 2000 hit Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon The Weinstein Company () is moving forward on the film, apparently believing it won with Crouching Tiger’s original studio Sony over who actually owns the rights to the books that form its source material, written by the late Wang Du Lu.
Provided Harvey Weinstein is not making a bullheaded decision and openly daring someone to challenge him on it (And when has he ever?), he’ll produce the adaptation of the next and final chapter in the Crane Iron Pentalogy—which is called Silver Vase, Iron Knight, though surely the movie title will have to have Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon in it somewhere, so we’ll all know to go see it. There’s already a script from The Forbidden Kingdom (and Young Guns!) writer John Fusco, Ronny Yu is in talks to replace Ang Lee as director, and, perhaps most importantly, fight choreographer Wo Ping Yuen is expected to return for more of that often-imitated-since wire work and treetop sword fighting and so forth.
Not clear as of yet is whether Michelle Yeoh or any other Crouching stars are expected to return, even though the Silver book continues to revolve around Yeoh’s character. However, Fusco is already playing up the sequel’s “new generation of star-crossed lovers,â€