Zhang Yimou remakes the Coen Brothers
While the Coen Brothers films are chock full of cinematic allusions (from film noir to Preston Sturges), they have only made one remake, their 2004 The Ladykillers (which updated Alexander Mackendrick’s 1955 British comedy staring Alec Guinness). But now as Coen Brothers prepare to release their new film A Serious Man with Focus Features this Fall, Chinese director Zhang Yimou will be remaking the Coen Brothers debut feature Blood Simple. The Associated Press reports that the film, the first since the director designed the opening and closing ceremonies for the 2008 Olympics in Beijing, started shooting on June 9. While the plot is not known, the title, according to the AP, “roughly translates as "The Stunning Case of the Three Gun Shots."
I certainly hope he gets a less cardboard leading man than the Coen's had....