Wong Kar Wai took 6 years to give us THE GRANDMASTER after his first English language film in 2007, MY BLUEBERRY NIGHTS, but it looks hopeful that we won’t be waiting as long for his next project. Wong will be taking a short story from Zhang Jiajia’s collection I Belonged To You. The author confirmed the news on Weibo saying that he and Wong have collaborated closely on the project, but did not specify if Wong would be directing or producing.
The story chosen by Wong is FERRYMAN which is one of 38 collcted stories originally posted online as bedtime stories. The story follows an affair between a girl and a married artist, which certainly seems inline with Wong’s previous classics IN THE MOOD FOR LOVE and 2046. Other stories from the collection have been sold to different film companies, so we may be hearing more about the works of Zhang Jiajia in the future.
As a Wong Kar Wai fan this is excellent news and I hope he will step into the director’s chair. If he does so then it will be only his second adaptation, the first being ASHES OF TIME, which was a very loose translation of Louis Cha’s The Legend Of The Condor Heroes.
Source: Film Biz
