Wayne Wang‘s long-gestating 920 Sacramento is finally a go.
Currently in negotiations are Annette Benning and Sienna Miller,
the pair would appear in the true life events of a San Francisco woman
who saved thousands of Chinese from slave labor in the 19th century.
After a false start which would have seen actress Ashley Judd on board and saw the production take place in Taiwan, it is now the Germans who are shelling backing the picture and setting the North Rhine-Westphalia for a month-ling shoot. The project is a German-U.S co-production between Cologne’s Pandora Film and Double Feature Films and the production will then shift over to parts of San Francisco.
After a trio of popcorn films that did fairly well at the box office (Maid in Manhattan, Because of Winn-Dixie and Last Holiday), Wang change course by working on The Princess of Nebraska and A Thousand Years
of Good Prayers: a pair of pocket change budgeted features that had a festival life but have yet to see a theatrcial run. Good Prayers will see a domestic limited late-July release.
