AUNG SAN SUU KYI MOVIE DEAL
January 16th 2008 08:03
ITALIAN FILM DIRECTOR GIUSEPPE TORNATORE TO MAKE A MOVIE ABOUT MYANMAR HEROINE AUNG SAN SUU KYI
Italian film director Giuseppe Tornatore will make a film about the Myanmar pro-democracy icon, Aung San Suu Kyi.
Mizzima News reports that it will be an English film with an estimated budget of US 30 million.
The film’s producer is Naofumi Okamoto, one of the very few foreigners who have met the detained Myanmar leader. She has been under house arrest for the last 12 years of the 18 years she has spent in Burma.
Okamoto told Mizzima, "The purpose of producing this film is to honour Noble Laureate Aung San Suu Kyi, because she chooses to be a mother to a nation instead of being a mother to a family, it is a very difficult thing for women to do."
"We are still working on the script, it may be finished by May and after that we will start shooting," Okamoto told Mizzima.
According to the producer, the film would be shot in Southeast Asia, with Thailand and Vietnam being the most likely venues. Malaysia could also be considered. However, he added that nothing had been confirmed yet.
Okamato said Italian award winning director Giuseppe Tornatore was chosen because he is famous for making women-centric films.
Meanwhile, following up MediaBlab’s recent report that Myanmar director and comedian Zargana is writing script for a movie about Aung San Suu Kyi’s father, General Aung San, Zargana has now revealed more details to Mizzima.
He said two film producing teams directly approached him about the movie. “The first one is from Europe and another one is from UK which produced 'Beyond Rangoon' before. And also the Hollywood producer Beckman, the producer of ' Charlie Wilson's War', approached me to produce this film.
Zargana said the film script has been finished as a draft and added, “My friend Vicky Bowman helped me in translation since very beginning.”
Zargana has been posting the film script on his web site bit by bit, but potential producers have asked him to stop doing this.
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