Filming of The Rape of Nanking Starts in January

Ummm... Is this the same Simon West who directed LARA CROFT: TOMB RAIDER and WHEN A STRANGER CALLS? If so, hahahahaha!

Not to mention Con bloody Air. Oh dear.

Is that really safe? Is that really a wise move - espically this moment in time? Will it make the countries relations stronger? Christ sake I know it was horrific what the Japanese did but are the so Chinese innocent (Tibet) and are the Americans the best to make it. Being English I'm sick of seeing Hollywood remake our history (which isnt so spotless). I just want to know when will we watch big budget movies about American war crimes. Well something other than Vietnam. Thats my rant over!

I might be interested if they had given those $38 million to Tun Fei Mou (who directed MAN BEHIND THE SUN and BLACK SUN: THE NANKING MASSACRE) and let him make the movie instead.

oh dear, please either get a chinese director or a chinese writer, this sounds like a disaster

Simon West? Does not bode well for this production. btw, there's already a film about Nanking that's going to be shown at Sundance.

This should be made as a Chinese-Japanese co-production.

this could never be Chinese-Japanese co-production, half the Japanese population doesn't even believe it happened. I guess my biggest worry about hollywood taking this on, is how are they going to manage to shoehorn a love story between 2 20-something white leads into the story of the Nanjing Massacre? Pearl Harbor, Titanic anyone?

I mostly think it's a bad idea to even make this movie but still I can't decide because I wonder... Are the producers trying to prove self-righteousness or do they want to show a sort of essence for why such a tragedy occurs(like in the movie Munich)? My assumption is the former. I'd like to know everyone else's guess.

You can witness the rare occasion of a Japanese ranting now.

Karl Marx said"the road to hell is paved with good wills"
You really don't need any "nationalist" to start a history war.

The real difference between Japan and Germany is that no one outside really had any ears for Japanese liberals or moderate conservatives when they had something to say about historical issues.People of the world focus eccentrics and extremist of both left and right,but never the center.Always the expert outside dictate the narrative and condemm the people they don't represent.
It was the Japanese academics who first studied anout Nanjing in 70's Journalist who wrote about Unit 731 in the 80's, civic groups started law suits for Korean comfort women against the government in the 90's.But in a reality they were needed only for some quotes.

Surely I could understand the Chinese fury ,there will be at least three movies about Nanjing on it's way for next year's 70th anniversaries but I just can't buy this idea that Hollywood is joining the bandwagon.I can already predict somebody from Japan wiil say some vicious things about this while whole country detached with ongoing events.And the foreign correspondents will dispatch the report on the latest proof of the Japan-shift-to-the-extreme-right.We have been constantly said so ever since 1948.

P.S
I still want watch the one KEKEXILI director Lu chuan is working on though.

Wait a minute, Lu Chuan's making a Nanking movie? Now that I would watch.

munich was a movie ?
I thought it was S.Spielbergs TV-version of KillBill.

and Lu chuan rules the earth. if he does this movie, i fly
to china for the premier :)

It is reported in Japan that Lu chuan is trying to make "Nanjing,Nanjing"highest production cost ever in China.
Although I got no news afterward.Any of you know about this?

When this upcoming Hollywood movie 'Rape of Nanking' is produced, the Chinese people from all over the world shall be the first ones to watch it. (Over a billion people) This movie shall be dedicated to Chinese people from all over the world, especially to the survivors and the ones who were masscared cruelly. This movie should also have Asian perspectives ... expressing how Chinese people felt in the past...

On behalf of all Chinese people, we thank you Sirs - Mr William McDonald, Simon West, and the rest of the film crew for making this movie (which is a historical fact) possible for all Chinese people.

As an overseas Chinese born in Singapore, this movie cannot be a Chinese-Japanese co-production. Why? Had Hollywood Director Steven Spielberg collaborated with the German Historians and film crews in fliming 'Saving Private Ryan' or the 'Band of Brothers Series' ??? These movies turns out to be 'blockbusters' movies widely enjoyed by people from all over the world..