Lulu Wang — whose newest movie “The Farewell” opens this weekend — has set her sights on her subsequent directorial venture in Alexander Weinstein’s “Children of the New World.”
Plot particulars for the science-fiction movie are being stored beneath wraps, however Wang is adapting the characteristic based mostly on Weinstein’s assortment of brief tales of the identical title.
Dani Melia and Peter Saraf at Big Beach introduced on Monday that they’ll produce the movie together with Votiv’s Justin Lothrop. Brent Stiefel from Votiv will function an govt producer.
“Lulu and I have been friends for years now and we’re very excited to be collaborating with her on such an incredible project,” Lothrop stated in a press release. “When we started on this journey with her, I don’t think we could have imagined a better partner than Big Beach, and we couldn’t be more pleased about working with them on this.”
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“Children of the New World,” revealed in 2016, is Weinstein’s debut work. The assortment introduces readers to a near-future stuffed with social media implants, reminiscence producers, dangerously immersive digital actuality video games, and frighteningly intuitive robots, in accordance with Weinstein’s web site. Many of the characters within the tales reside in a utopian way forward for instantaneous connection and technological gratification that belies an unbridgeable human distance, whereas others inhabit a post-collapse panorama made primitive by catastrophe.
Big Beach additionally collaborated with Wang on “The Farewell,” starring Awkwafina (Nora Lum), which premiered earlier this yr on the Sundance Film Festival. “The Farewell” gained the Audience Award at Sundance London, Atlanta Film Festival, LA Asian Pacific Film Festival and Cinetopia, and will probably be launched in choose theaters by A24 on Friday.
“I could not have made ‘The Farewell’ without my fantastic producers at Big Beach, so I’m looking forward to this new collaboration, with them and Votiv, to continue exploring the evolving dynamics of family,” Wang stated in a press release.
In “The Farewell,” which Wang additionally wrote based mostly on actual experiences, Awkwafina stars as Billi, a Chinese-born author who moved to America when she was six years outdated. The movie facilities round Billi’s household’s choice to not inform their beloved matriarch, Nai Nai, that she has been recognized with lung most cancers and doesn’t have lengthy to reside. Instead, they throw collectively a marriage again in China so that everybody within the household can, in impact, say their goodbyes.
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“We had an incredible experience collaborating with Lulu Wang on ‘The Farewell’ and are thrilled to be making another film with this visionary director, this time working alongside Votiv and exploring a completely different space and genre,” Melia stated in a press release.
In addition to “The Farewell,” Big Beach’s upcoming movie releases embody TriStar’s “It’s A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood” from Marielle Heller and starring Tom Hanks and Matthew Rhys. The manufacturing hub can be behind Starz’s new collection “Vida,” presently in its second season, and “Sorry For Your Loss,” which is getting ready to shoot its second season for Facebook Watch.
Votiv movies, a growth finance and manufacturing firm, is finest identified for his or her work on “Free In Deed,” “As You Are” and “Obvious Child.”
Lulu Wang is represented by UTA and Circle of Confusion.
