With the working title "My Blueberry Nights," Wong Kar-Wai has pushed back the production of his film "Lady from Shanghai" with Nicole Kidman to work with Indian Jazz/Pop singer Norah Jones. Reports from the Berlinale indicate that one of the issues was failure to find a 'strong male lead' for Shanghai.
If My Blueberry Nights goes forward (and isn't just film festival white-noise), this will be wkw's english language debut film and also Ms. Jones film debut.
[Source BBC News, Screendaily]
between these two, the just announced hurricane katrina movie, and the previously announced bruce lee / grand master movie, i'm wondering which one will actually start filming first...
It's Norah Jones. And, I believe she's half-Indian. Her dad is Ravi Shankar, but I believe that her mom is White-American.
Dropped an h, yes my mistake. Yes, she is Ravi Shankar's offspring.
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After his track record with 2046, I'm pretty certain we won't see anything from WKW before 2008....and that's being optimistic.
Wong Kar-wai should just focus on finishing ONE picture...
I think WKW's English debut was The Hire: The Follow
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0285104/
Hehe. :)
As a proud owner of the BMW Issues DVD containing all the shorts, yes, you've got me there. But all semantics aside, I should have said WKW English Language FEATURE debut.
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