From Reuters:
Chinese filmmaker John Woo plans to shoot a costly epic recounting the communist takeover of China.
“1949” features a love story set against the backdrop of the final years of China’s civil war before the rise to power of Mao Zedong‘s Communist Party. The Chinese-language project will star Seong Hye-kyo and Chang Chen.
Read also John Woo to direct, produce ‘1949’ from Variety.