Wong Kar-Wai Preparing Hurricane Katrina Movie

from the ever vigilant monkeypeaches.com:

Wong Kar-Wai Will Do Hurricane Katrina Inspired Movie

Hong Kong's Apple Daily reports that Wong Kar-Wai is planning to make a drama based on moving true events in New Orleans when the city was attacked by hurricane Katrina last year. Wong is hoping to cast Adrian Brody as the leading man but Brody will not make the commitment before reading the final script, which Wong is still working on. Wong just completed a location scout in and around New Orleans but producers of the film concluded that the damage in New Orleans was still too severe and decided to shoot the $50 million project largely in New York with a small number of shots to be made in the real New Orleans. Wong Kar-Wai is famous for shooting movies with briefly written scripts or even no script at all. He is also known for finalizing movie projects at painfully low speeds. He spent almost five years on the production and post-production of his last movie, 2046. Wong Kar-Wai is still attached to make The Lady from Shanghai with Nicole Kidman and a biopic of Ye Wen, Bruce Lee's trainer, with Leung Chou-Wai.