The Z Review
Thursday, September 26, 2002
La Marque Jaune Expected Release Date U.S. : (Subject to change)
Expected Release Date U.K. : (subject to change)
Expected Rental Release Date : (subject to change)
La Marque Jaune Cast : Li
Gong, Rufus Sewell and Hugh Bonneville
Director : James Huth
La Marque Jaune Written By : Charles Gassot
Producers :
Other Known Crew Members :
La Marque Jaune Based On
:La Marque Jaune is an adaptation of the French Blake and Mortimer comic books.
Premise/Synopsis :
Genre :Horror
The Hollywood Reporter
Gong Li signs for live action 'The Yellow M'
Sep. 13, 2002
PARIS -- Chinese actress Gong Li has joined the cast of the English-language
"The Yellow M," directed by James Huth for Paris-based producer Telema.
Co-written by Huth, "The Yellow M" is adapted from one of the best-known
adventures of the comic-strip characters Blake and Mortimer, created by Edgar
P. Jacobs and hugely popular in France. Set in 1950s London, the movie is due
to begin shooting in the United Kingdom in February for 16 weeks. Budgeted at
around €34 million ($33 million),
"The Yellow M" is the most ambitious French project currently scheduled for
production next year. Gong will play the enigmatic Dr. Li Mei, a scientist whose
intelligence is matched only by her icy beauty. Rufus Sewell
("A Knight'Tale") and Hugh Bonneville ("Notting Hill") will
respectively play Blake, an MI5 agent, and professor Mortimer, a
brilliant physicist.
TF1 International, the film sales arm of Gallic network TF1, which has a stake in Telema,
is selling the movie internationally. Distribution in France will be through UGC. Gong has
just completed duty as jury president at the Venice International Film Festival. Her
previous
credits include "Shanghai Triad" and "Raise the Red Lantern." Huth's
previous
movie as director was the French-language comedy "Serial Lover." (Charles
Masters )
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Allocine.com
original articles in french
English translations below -
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Gong Li in the
universe of Blake & Mortimer
Turnings , September 10, 2002
The star Chinese Gong Li joined the credits of "the
Yellow Mark" whose turning should begin in February. |
That which chaired this year
the jury of Mostra of Venice benefitted from its presence to the festival to announce in
company of the producer Charles
Gassot and the realizer James
Huth his participation in the project started here are already two years (see our
article Blake
and Mortimer with the cinema ). The turning, whose budget rises to 35 € million,
will begin in February in London for one sixteen weeks duration, including twelve in
studio. The adaptation of the most famous episode of the adventures of Blake &
Mortimer written in 1953 by Edgar P. Jacob is announced by his realizer full "with
adventure, glamour and comedy. There will be the fight of the good and the evil, with
suspense, the whole in London of the Fifties, at the time of the cold war ". The
film tells the history of a malefic creature to the supernatural capacities which would
hold the army and the police force in failure in England plunged under hypnosis. The Prime
Minister would have of another recourse only to call upon the Blake captain and his friend
professor Mortimer, incarnés respectively by Rufus
Sewell and Hugh
Bonneville .
Gong Li as a
neuropsychiatrist
The scientist interpreted by Gong
Li was personally introduced by James Huth like "a character of shades and
lights, with the temperament of fire and ice, whose intelligence has equal only
beauty" . The actress, who had liked "the fresh and new style" of
first film of James Huth Serial
to coil , also declared that even if it did not speak English "the language
did not have importance. That what counted was a good story, a good realizer and a strong
character ".
The film with the provisional title "M" should leave in October 2004.
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Blake and Mortimer
with the cinema
Turnings, 05 Juin 2000
The famous duet Blake and Mortimer, created by Edgar P.
Jacob, will have his film adaptation, produced by Charles Gassot and carried out by James
Huth. |
"By Jove! "they
will be with the cinema. Colonel Francis-Percy Blake and Professor Philip-Edgar-Agus
Mortimer, duet worship of the comic strip, will know an adaptation to the cinema. The
producer Charles
Gassot (person in charge lately for Taste
of the othersdecided to launch out in the adventure while carrying to the screen The
Yellow Mark.
This third adventure imagined by Edgar P. Jacob tells the investigation of the two heroes
into the mysterious removals perpetrated by the Yellow Mark. .. With the orders of this
project, whose budget would border 150 million francs, the realizer James
Huth (Serial
to coil). On the other hand, the distribution is still unknown for the moment.
For the neophytes, Blake and Mortimer made their first appearance in 1946 with The
Secrecy of Espadonin the weekly magazine Tintin.
Edgar P. Jacobs continues its work while drawing successively The Mystery of the large
Pyramid (1950), The Yellow Mark (1953), The Enigma of Atlantis (1955), S.
O. S. Meteors (1958), The diabolic Trap (1960), The Business of the Collar
(1965) and Three Formulas of Professor Sato (1967). After its death in 1987, the
draughtsmen Bob de Moor and Ted Benoit, associated to the scenario writer Jean Van Hamme,
will take again with fidelity the work of Edgar P. Jacobs.
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Director Huth Strikes a Gong for
'The Yellow M'
Fri, Sep 13, 2002, 08:09 AM PT
http://www.zap2it.com
HOLLYWOOD (Zap2it.com) - Chinese actress Gong Li, who recently presided over
the main jury at the Venice Film Festival, has signed on to star in James
Huth's English-language movie, "The Yellow M."
Based on Edgar P. Jacobs' comic-strip characters Blake and Mortimer, the film
will be an adventure thriller centering on MI5 agent Blake (played by Rufus
Sewell) and brilliant physicist Mortimer (played by Hugh Bonneville) who must
stop evil in 1950s London. According to the Hollywood Reporter, Gong Li will
play icy beauty and brilliant scientist Dr. Li Mei.
Produced by French company Telema for a budget of $33 million pounds, "The
Yellow M." is set to go into production in February in the United Kingdom.
The comic strip is extremely popular in France.
thanks Grace, of Vue2Sewell
Gong Li dans M,
l'adaptation de La Marque Jaune
English translation
Agence France-Presse
Venise,Italie
Photo AP
Gong Li préside cette année le jury du festival du film de Venise.
Gong Li, la «Greta
Garbo chinoise», rejoint le générique de M, l'adaptation à l'écran de La
Marque Jaune, la bande dessinée d'Edgar P. Jacobs sur les aventures de Blake et
Mortimer, dont le tournage à Londres débutera en février, ont annoncé vendredi au Lido
le producteur français Charles Gassot et le réalisateur James Huth.
M sera un film avec
de «l'aventure, du glamour, de la comédie. Il y aura la lutte du bien
et du mal, avec du suspense, le tout dans le Londres des années 50,
au temps de la guerre froide», a assuré James Huth, le réalisateur franco-britannique
de «Serial Lover», une comédie noire.
Gong Li, 36 ans, qui préside le jury de la 59e Mostra de Venise et qui est
également ambassadrice de bonne volonté de la FAO (Organisation mondiale pour
l'alimentation
et l'agriculture), interprètera «une brillante neuropsychiatre au tempérament de
feu et
de glace, dont l'intelligence n'a d'égal que la beauté, un personnage d'ombres et
de lumières», a précisé James Huth (36 ans).
En 1953, une créature maléfique, dotée de pouvoirs surnaturels sème la terreur, pille
et tue sans pitié, tenant en échec l'armée et la police de sa majesté. M
asservit l'Angleterre en plongeant le pays sous hypnose. Le sort du monde libre est en
jeu...
Le premier ministre fait alors appel au capitaine Blake (Rufus
Sewell, qui a joué dans A Knight's tale et Dark City»), agent du
MI5, et au professeur Mortimer (Iris, Notting Hill), physicien de génie.
Deux femmes hors du commun croisent leur chemin.
Ce film tourné en 16 semaines, dont 12 en studio, a un budget de 35 millions d'euros.
Il est produit par la société Téléma de Charles Gassot (Tanguy, La
vie est un long
fleuve tranquille, Un air de famille, Ceux qui m'aiment prendront le
train, Intimité).
La sortie du film est prévue en octobre 2004.
Gong Li, la star de Épouses
et concubines, primée à Venise pour Qiu Ju, une femme chinoise, a précisé
qu'elle avait vu Serial Lover et qu'elle aimait «le style frais et nouveau» de
James Huth. L'actrice, qui ne parle pas anglais et qui est accompagnée
aux projections par un interprète, a déclaré par son truchement que «la langue
n'avait
pas d'importance. Ce qui compte c'est une bonne histoire, un bon
directeur et un personnage fort».
Révélée par Le sorgho rouge de Zhang Yimou, Gong Li n'a joué que dans un seul
film étranger - tourné à Hong Kong - Chinese Box de
l'Américain d'origine chinoise Wayne Wang avec Jeremy Irons. Elle doit jouer dans
Erotic Story, le chapitre réalisé par Wong Kar-waï (In the Mood for
Love) pour la trilogie Eros avec Michelangelo Antonioni et Pedro Almodovar.
thanks to Grace of Vue2Sewell
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