Tom Hanks, Tom Cruise or Brad Pitt Competing for Zhang Yimou's Next Film?

While I eagerly await for Sony Pictures Classics to release Zhang Yimou's The First Gun in the U.S. (despite the negative salutation it's ostensibly received at home in China), I can't help but leapfrog that flick in order to excitedly alter programme of the filmmaker's incoming film: The Thirteen Women of Jinling (also known as The 13 Women of Nanjing). According to a Chinese website, Jingling will ostensibly take antecedency over Yimou's another in-the-works project, Romance Under a Hawthorn Tree, and it module feature a tone A-list actor in whatever capacity.

Producer Zhang Weiping mentions exclusive the super and prizewinning as potentials, with blackamoor Hanks, blackamoor Cruise and Brad Pitt allegedly every showing interest. One of these actors could fill the persona of a pastor in the film, which module be set in a Nanjing faith during the Japanese invasion of 1937. As for the formal women, every prostitutes who wanted shelter in church, Weiping says they're hunting for unknown actresses with "good foreign module skills" (likely meaning they can intercommunicate enough arts to behave oppositeness a big tone flick star).

Jinling is described as a Schindler's List type of poem flick by the producer. And at a outlay of $100 million, the film's budget is the super yet for Yimou, who has embellish mainland China's most internationally famous administrator with arthouse dramas same Raise the Red Lantern and state spectacles same Hero. The reported toll tag also puts Jingling above Evangelist Woo's recent two-part poem Red Cliff as the most pricey continent flick yet.

With digit of those threesome actors on board, even if exclusive for a diminutive part, Yimou could also wager his highest planetary gross. He'd belike need to feature whatever of his stylish state showpieces to alter in the super gathering that went to wager Hero in dweller multiplexes, though it's questionable Jingling will feature much large-scale struggle sequences if it wants to be on the take with Schindler's List.

[via Slashfilm]