China to Submit 'The Flowers of War' in Foreign-Language Oscar Race

Beijing New Picture FIlm Co Zhang Yimou's The Flowers of War, starring Christian Bale, is going to be China's submission for top foreign-language film Academy Award, China's Film Bureau introduced on Friday. STORY: Top U.S. Purchasers Get First Peek at Christian Bale's 'The Flowers of War' Modified by film writer Liu Heng from Yan Geling's historic novel 13 Flowers of Nanjing and created through the director's lengthy-time creating partnerZhang Weiping, the film is occur Nanking in 1937 because the Japanese Imperial Military overruns China's capital. Bale plays John Haufman, a united states missionary who assisted safeguard several schoolgirls and hookers in the entering military. PHOTOS: Toronto Film Festival: 13 Films to understand The film, with dialogue both in Mandarin and British, cost $90 million to create. It had been executive created by DengChaoyingand David Linde. Glen Basner's FilmNation Entertainment, that is handling worldwide sales, previewed footage throughout the current Toronto Worldwide Film Festival, and many U.S. purchasers are presently circling the project. The 3rd time might be the charm for Zhang, who directed the outlet events from the Beijing Olympic games. Despite getting been nominated formerly with Ju Dou and lift the Red-colored Lantern, Zhang has yet to create home an Oscar. Composer Su Cong grew to become the very first citizen of those's Republic of China to win an Academy Award, for his use David Byrne and Ryuichi Sakamoto around the soundtrack for Bernardo Bertolucci's The Final Emperor. Hunan province-born Tan Dun later won for the best Original Score for Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. Flowers will get full China domestic release in December. No U.S. release date is placed, even though Oscar nomination will spur interest. Toronto Worldwide Film Festival Academy awards Worldwide Asia Christian Bale Academy awards 2012 Zhang Yimou