It took eight long years between Hou Hsiao-hsien's "Flight Of The Red Ballon" and his latest, Cannes Best Director prize winning "The Assassin." And the good news for fans of the filmmaker is that he's already brewing his next picture and hopefully it won't be so long to get it made it. His next project is about "a waterway enthusiast who encounters a river goddess while studying the city’s waterway system" and it will be set in the modern era. Shu Qi will return to star with Chu Tien-wen ("The Assassin," "Millennium Mambo") penning the script. No word yet on when production start. [Taipei Times]
Catherine Hardwicke will tackle another tale about young people, signing up to helm "Love Letters To The Dead." An adaptation of the book by Ava Dellaira (who will also write the script) it "centers on a character named Laurel who for an English class assignment writes a letter to a dead person, Kurt Cobain....
