Tag: remake
A Woman, A Gun and Noodle Shop
The Chinese remake of Blood Simple debuted that the Berlin Film Festival. Zhang Yimou replaced small town America with the Gansu province of northwestern China. Instead of a bar owner it’s a noodle shop owner. Sounds pretty amusing. Yimou first saw Blood Simple at the Cannes film festival but without subtitles he couldn’t follow what [...]
Posted: February 14th, 2010 under Blood Simple.
Tags: Blood Simple, remake, Zhang Yimou
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Possible ‘Blood Simple’ remake
Did the Coen Brothers go back to the remake well one too many times? Is that why there’s a rumored plan to remake their debut film Blood Simple? Monkey Peaches is reporting that Zhang Yimou has bought the rights to remake the 1984 thriller. Zhang Yimou of House of Flying Daggers and Hero fame likens [...]
Posted: April 30th, 2009 under Blood Simple.
Tags: Blood Simple, remake
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