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More on the plate for Wong Kar-Wai

Published on March 1, 2007

After nearly driving himself to the breaking point with his suicidal 5 year film project called 2046, it looks like that the Hong Kong filmmaker known to Cannes regulars as Wong Kar-wai has got a menu-full of projets ahead. Variety reports that after the release of My Blueberry Nights we can expect to see the filmmaker is climbing abord another project (yet his role is yet to be determined).

Somwhere bewteen his newest project Ashes of Time – Redux and The Lady From Shanghai, he helmer is joining a drama about lesbian love at a high school. Sounds like fun!

New pic is expected to begin shooting in Taiwan in April with Stanley Kwan will be executive producer while Yanni Wang will be behind the camera.

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Eric Lavallée is the founder, CEO, editor-in-chief, film journalist and critic at IONCINEMA.com (founded in 2000). Eric is a regular at Sundance, Cannes and TIFF. He has a BFA in Film Studies at the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema. In 2013 he served as a Narrative Competition Jury Member at the SXSW Film Festival. He was an associate producer on Mark Jackson's This Teacher (2018 LA Film Festival, 2018 BFI London). In 2022 he served as a New Flesh Comp for Best First Feature at the 2022 Fantasia Intl. Film Festival. Current top films for 2022 include Tár (Todd Field), All That Breathes (Shaunak Sen), Aftersun (Charlotte Wells).