“Spa Night time” and “Hearth Island” filmmaker Andrew Ahn is ready to direct Lily Gladstone and Bowen Yang in a brand new tackle “The Wedding ceremony Banquet” that has been described as a “reimagination” of Ang Lee’s beloved 1993 movie.
The brand new challenge, which was introduced on Thursday by co-producers Bleecker Avenue and Shivhans Footage and begins filming in Might, relies on a brand new script by Ahn and frequent Lee collaborator James Schamus, who co-wrote the unique movie.
Lee’s “The Wedding ceremony Banquet” received the Golden Bear on the 1993 Berlin Worldwide Movie Competition and helped cement his standing as a notable determine within the international movie neighborhood. The movie stars Winston Chao as a homosexual Taiwanese man dwelling in America who agrees to a wedding of comfort with a feminine pal, solely to seek out his life sophisticated when his overbearing mother and father journey to America to plan his marriage ceremony banquet. The movie embodies the stress between Confucian values and encroaching Western tradition that defines so a lot of Lee’s early movies.
Ahn’s up to date tackle the fabric follows two same-sex {couples} and focuses on household dynamics within the Korean neighborhood. The official synopsis for the brand new movie reads: “When Min’s boyfriend Chris rejects his spontaneous marriage proposal, he convinces his finest pal Angela to marry him as a substitute, paying for her accomplice Liz’s IVF therapies in trade for his inexperienced card. Their plans for a refined metropolis corridor elopement are turned the wrong way up when Min’s grandmother makes a shock journey from Seoul to throw them an extravagant Korean marriage ceremony banquet.”
“It warms my coronary heart to see how my movie from so a few years in the past has impressed a brand new technology to reimagine a brand new and completely different model,” Ang Lee mentioned in an announcement asserting the information. “I stay up for seeing what Andrew Ahn and his fantastic solid create.”
Along with Yang and Gladstone, Ahn’s “The Wedding ceremony Banquet” will function “Minari” star Yuh-Jung Youn, Kelly Marie Tran, and Joan Chet.