A brand new sequence is within the works based mostly on the books that impressed Ang Lee‘s 2000 basic “Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon,” a person with information of the challenge advised IndieWire.
The sequence is in growth from Sony Photos Tv and is meant for launch through Amazon Prime Video. Although Amazon has been good about mining the IP from the MGM library, it was Sony Photos Classics that initially launched Lee’s movie.
Jason Ning, a producer on “Lucifer,” is the author and govt producer on the brand new “Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon” sequence, which shall be based mostly on 5 Crane-Iron Pentalogy guide sequence by creator Wang Dulu. The movie from 2000 was based mostly on the fourth guide within the sequence, additionally titled “Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon,” that was serialized starting in 1941.
The movie was set in nineteenth century Imperialist China and adopted two grasp warriors and their forbidden love after the priceless Inexperienced Future sword is stolen by a grasp thief. Right here’s the official synopsis of the sequence:
Amidst gorgeous landscapes and spectacular motion, ‘Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon’ follows Shu Lien and Mu Bai, two star-crossed warriors, as they battle between forbidden love and the pull of modernity — caught between preserving their lifestyle or embracing a future collectively. Primarily based on the Crane-Iron Pentalogy guide sequence by Wang Dulu.
Ronald D. Moore can be an govt producer on behalf of his Tall Ship Productions banner, and non-writing EPs are Johnny Levin and Roy Lee for Vertigo Leisure, Maril Davis for Tall Ship Productions, and Hong Wang and Qin Wang for the Wang Dulu property. Ying Lou serves as co-executive producer.
Lee’s “Crouching Tiger” was a field workplace smash and stays acclaimed as top-of-the-line martial arts and wuxia movies of no less than the twenty first Century, if not all time. The movie was nominated for Finest Image, incomes 10 nominations and successful 4. It held the file for the worldwide movie with probably the most Oscar nominations ever up till this 12 months when “Emilia Pérez” broke it. The film additionally grossed $213.9 million worldwide and spawned a sequel, “Sword of Future” in 2016, wherein star Michelle Yeoh reprised her position from the unique. The unique movie starred Yeoh, Chow Yun-Fats, Zhang Ziyi, and Chang Chen.
Amazon earlier at present gave the official inexperienced mild to a brand new sequence based mostly on “Carrie” from creator Mike Flanagan forward of that horror basic’s fiftieth anniversary.
Deadline first reported the information.