Crouching Tiger, Snow White?
Friday, September 20, 2002
(Toronto Sun) -- HOLLYWOOD -- Disney is negotiating with the Chinese choreographer of groundbreaking action films The Matrix and Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, to direct a live-action take on Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs.
The project was until recently known as Snow White And The Seven Shao Lin. (That's a reference to the Shao Lin monks of China, who became masters of fighting concepts so they could understand the source of violence to overcome it.)
Variety says the now-untitled family action-adventure picture will mark the English-language directing debut of Yuen Wo Ping. A major name in Asia currently wrapping up work for Quentin Tarantino on Kill Bill, Yuen has already directed some 27 pictures. He is also credited for having discovered such now-familiar talents as Michelle Yeoh, Jet Li and Jackie Chan.
The Snow White update is set in the 1890s and follows a woman who returns home to Hong Kong to attend her father's funeral after 20 years abroad.
She discovers that her stepmother is plotting against her and escapes to mainland China, where she seeks solace with seven Shao Lin monks who, in turn, come to believe the woman holds the fate of the world in her hands and protect her. Josh Harman and Scott Elder wrote the script.
Friday, September 20, 2002
(Toronto Sun) -- HOLLYWOOD -- Disney is negotiating with the Chinese choreographer of groundbreaking action films The Matrix and Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, to direct a live-action take on Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs.
The project was until recently known as Snow White And The Seven Shao Lin. (That's a reference to the Shao Lin monks of China, who became masters of fighting concepts so they could understand the source of violence to overcome it.)
Variety says the now-untitled family action-adventure picture will mark the English-language directing debut of Yuen Wo Ping. A major name in Asia currently wrapping up work for Quentin Tarantino on Kill Bill, Yuen has already directed some 27 pictures. He is also credited for having discovered such now-familiar talents as Michelle Yeoh, Jet Li and Jackie Chan.
The Snow White update is set in the 1890s and follows a woman who returns home to Hong Kong to attend her father's funeral after 20 years abroad.
She discovers that her stepmother is plotting against her and escapes to mainland China, where she seeks solace with seven Shao Lin monks who, in turn, come to believe the woman holds the fate of the world in her hands and protect her. Josh Harman and Scott Elder wrote the script.