News that Zhang Yimou would be remaking the Coen Brothers’ wonderful debut feature Blood Simple caused us to scratch our heads in puzzlement. But every new image and bit of footage from A Woman, a Gun and a Noodle Shop (formerly Amazing Tales: Three Guns and The First Gun) has suggested that, hey, maybe the whole project is actually a good idea. Now there’s a trailer for the North American release of the film, and it looks better than anything we’ve seen so far. Read More »
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This weekend sees A Noodle Story aka Three Guns, Zhang Yimou‘s daffy-sounding comedy period movie remake of Blood Simple, hit Chinese cinema screens – if you haven’t seen the trailer yet please take a moment to go and bask in its great glowing eccentricity. With that one finally over and out, however, what’s next for the director?
Well, it may be Romance Under a Hawthorn Tree or, apparently more likely, it will be The Thirteen Women of Jinling. This one will be a war time drama set during the 1937 Japanese invasion of China and will be focused on the characters of thirteen refugee prostitutes hiding out in a Nanjing church. As well as these very many roles for Chinese actresses, it seems there’s going to be a dash of Hollywood too. According to producer Zhang Weiping, the production has so far approached Tom Hanks, Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt, and each of them has already shown their interest.
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First up, Zhang Yimou‘s sorta-remake of Blood Simple, the amazing debut feature by Joel and Ethan Coen, has a new title. Once called Amazing Tales: Three Guns, the title now seems to be The First Gun. Except that in some places, as on the upload for the trailer featured below, the title Amazing Tales: Three Guns, or some variant on it, persists. But the new name was reported by Yahoo, and they’ve got to be correct, right? So for now we’ll run with it, but don’t be too surprised if you still see the Three Guns title used in the next few months.
Now, about that trailer: we’ve got it after the jump, and it is a little bit insane. We’ve already seen some images, and they were wild, but this is over the top. You won’t recognize much Coen Brothers in it, but there’s no small amount of weird, wacky style going on. Read More »
Imagine, if you will, a film by the director of House of Flying Daggers or Red Sorghum that has been remade from a picture by the directors of Raising Arizona or The Big Lebowski. What would such a thing look like? Courtesy of the first three stills from Zhang Yimou‘s Three Guns, a remake of the Coen Bros. debut Blood Simple, you don’t even need that much an imagination. Check the images out below the break.
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Variety have announced a new project from Zhang Yimou, director of Hero and House of Flying Daggers. They call it Amazing Tales – Three Guns and describe it as having two separate parts, one a thriller and the other a comedy. It’s hard to not suspect this is the result of a bad translation and simply, the film is to be a comedy-thriller or, as we might say, one part comedy, one part thriller, just mixed parts.
Here’s the bizarre bit, though. Monkey Peaches are reporting a rumor that the film is a remake of Blood Simple. Very, very odd.
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