Gong Li in M
the adaptation of the Yellow Mark
Arrange France-Press
Venice, Italy
Gong Li chairs this year the jury of the festival of film of Venice.
Gong Li, "Greta Garbo Chinese", joined the credits of M , the adaptation to
the screen of the Yellow Mark , the comic strip of Edgar P. Jacobs on the
adventures of Blake and Mortimer, from which turning in London will begin in
February, announced to Friday in the Lido the French producer Charles Gassot
and the realizer James Huth.
M will be a film with "adventure, glamour, comedy. There will be the fight of
the good and of the evil, with suspense, the whole in London of the Fifties,
the time of the cold war ", ensured James Huth, the Franco-British realizer
"Serial Lover", a black comedy.
Gong Li, 36 years, which chairs the jury of the 59 E Mostra of Venice and
which is also ambassadress of goodwill of the FAO (world Organization for the
food and agriculture), will interprètera "a brilliant neuropsychiatrist with
the temperament of fire and of ice, whose intelligence has equal only beauty,
a character of shades and lights", James Huth (36 years) specified.
In 1953, a malefic creature, equipped with supernatural capacities sows
terror, plunders and kills without pity, holding in failure the army and the
police force of its majesty. M controls England while plunging the country
under hypnosis. The fate of the free world is concerned...
The Prime Minister then calls upon the captain Blake (Rufus
Sewell, who
played in A Knight' S bruises and Dark City "), agent of the MI5, and with
professor Mortimer ( Iris , Notting Hill ), physicist of genious. Two women
out of the commun run cross their way.
This film made in 16 weeks, including 12 in studio, has a budget of 35
million euros. It is produced by the company Téléma de Charles Gassot (
Tanguy , the life is a long quiet river , an air of family , Those which like
to me will take the train , Intimité ). The exit of film is envisaged in
October 2004.
Gong Li, the star of Wives and concubines , preceded in Venice for Qiu Ju, a
Chinese woman , specified that it had seen Serial Lover and that it liked
"the fresh and new style" of James Huth. The actress, who does not speak
English and which is accompanied with projections by an interpreter, declared
by her intermediary that "the language did not have importance. What counts
is a good story, a good director and a strong character ".
Revealed by the red sorghum of Zhang Yimou, Gong Li did not play that in only
one foreign film - turned in Hong Kong - Chinese Box of the American of
Chinese origin Wayne Wang with Jeremy Irons. It must play in Erotic Story ,
the chapter carried out by Wong Kar-waï ( In the Mood for Love ) for the Eros
trilogy with Michelangelo Antonioni and Pedro Almodovar.
thanks to Grace of Vue2Sewell
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