Thursday, July 31, 2008
Director Tran Anh Hung to Adapt Murakami's Norwegian Wood
As you may know, aside from film reviews and some of the latest breaking news articles, Screen International's website Screen Daily is a subscription-only site. So I wanted to post the basic gist of a media exclusive I wrote that went up earlier this morning.
French-Vietnamese director Tran Anh Hung will be directing an adaptation of Murakami Haruki's famed novel Norwegian Wood, in Japan with a Japanese cast (TBA). Asmik Ace and Fuji TV will co-produce.
If you happen to have an account you can read the full article here. Otherwise more details (in Japanese and English) should start getting around the rest of the internet later today or tomorrow.
Interesting project.
Update: As expected, a flood of Japanese language stories. Anything to do with Murakami is big news here. Asahi Shimbun, Variety Japan, Nikkan Sports, Sanspo, for starters.
Update 2: I posted some more info in the comments section of Todd Twitch's story. Tokyograph also has news up in English.
3 comments:
This was a delightful bit of news indeed. One of my favorite filmmakers adapting my favorite writer, can't beat that combo. If it's anywhere near as good as Ichikawa's adaptation of Tony Takitani we should be in for a real treat. Thanks for the heads up Jason!
Now if I Come With the Rain would finally come out already...
i love murakami! what a brilliant piece of news. if you ever, ever have the good fortune to meet him or if he does a book signing or any exclusive limited edition out in japan and you could get a copy i'd pay handsomely for the favour ... i'm quite a collector of his work.
ps. hope you are well :o)
No need to pay -- if I can get something signed at the premiere or sooner I'll gladly send it to you, Max. There will definitely be a reprint to tie in with the film.
x
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