Woo Woo Sen and Joel Kinnaman
Cover news reporter Yang Fan
On October 30, according to foreign media reports, 75-year-old Wu Yusen returned to Hollywood and will direct a lineless American action film "Silent Night", which is said to have no lines in the whole film. Starring Joel Kinnaman (Task Force X: All Assembled). The story tells of an ordinary father who enters the underworld world because of the death of his son and wants revenge. The project has recently been unveiled at the AFM Film & TV Show.
What is Wu Yusen doing recently, which has not appeared in a new work for a long time? In May this year, a photo of a secret meeting between Liao Baojun, CEO of a website, and Wu Yusen, a well-known director, was exposed, and it was reported that the two were negotiating to adapt the movie "Chibi" into a super big web drama, and hoped to invite the original team members Ma Liang Chaowei and Lin Zhiling to star together again. After this matter broke out, many people said that they were a bit unreliable, because after "Chibi" was released in two parts that year, the box office was very poor, and there was no recovery of investment, in a sense, this is not Wu Yusen's successful work.
After so many years of development in the mainland, Wu Yusen's directorial career does not seem to be very smooth, so it is expected to return to Hollywood. This new film is planned to shoot, Wu Yusen has directed an American film for the first time after more than a decade, after he directed films such as "Changing Face" and "Mission Impossible 2" in Hollywood, and the last Hollywood action blockbuster was "Memory Rift" in 2003.
As a Chinese director with the same name as Ang Lee and enjoying an international reputation, Wu Yusen entered the film circle in 1968 as a screenwriter for the feature film "Dead Festival". In 1973, he directed his first film "Iron Man Tenderness". In 1977, it began to develop comedies as the main line of development. In 1983, he joined New Art City Film Company. In 1986, he directed the gunfight film "The True Colors of Heroes", which established its violent aesthetic film style, which won the best film at the 6th Hong Kong Film Awards.
In 1993, Wu Yusen went to Hollywood in the United States to develop. In 1997, he won the Golden Circle Award of the All-American Chinese Art Foundation for the Action Film "Changing Faces" and the Best Director Award at the 24th American Film and Television Saturn Awards. In 2000, he directed the spy film "Mission Impossible 2" and won the annual box office championship of global films. In 2004, he was awarded the Bronze Bauhinia Star by the Hong Kong Government.
In 2006, Wu Yusen returned to the Development of the Chinese film industry and served as the executive producer of the action film "Heaven's Mouth". In 2009, he won the Outstanding Contribution Award for Chinese Film at the 12th Shanghai International Film Festival. In 2010, Wu Yusen won the Lifetime Achievement Award at the 67th Venice International Film Festival.
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