Exclusive: We have learned first that Sk Global has set screenwriter Elliott San to adapt Ryan Graudin’s Little, Brown Books YA novel The Walled City for Crazy Rich Asians producer Sk Global.
The novel, which is in the spirit of Maze Runner, but based in Chinese Mythology, follows teens Mei Yee and Dai, who live in the Walled City, a lawless labyrinth run by crime lords and overrun by street gangs. Teens there traffic drugs or work in brothels–or, like Jin, hide under the radar. But when Dai offers Jin a chance to find her lost sister, Mei Yee, she begins a breathtaking race against the clock to escape the Walled City itself.
Sk Global executives on the feature project are John Penotti and Xian Li. Matt Reeves’ 6th and Idaho will also produce.
Back in October 2019, San sold his untitled spec competitively to New Line with Mary...
The novel, which is in the spirit of Maze Runner, but based in Chinese Mythology, follows teens Mei Yee and Dai, who live in the Walled City, a lawless labyrinth run by crime lords and overrun by street gangs. Teens there traffic drugs or work in brothels–or, like Jin, hide under the radar. But when Dai offers Jin a chance to find her lost sister, Mei Yee, she begins a breathtaking race against the clock to escape the Walled City itself.
Sk Global executives on the feature project are John Penotti and Xian Li. Matt Reeves’ 6th and Idaho will also produce.
Back in October 2019, San sold his untitled spec competitively to New Line with Mary...
- 1/19/2021
- by Anthony D'Alessandro
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: We hear that Elliott San has sold an untitled spec competitively to New Line with Mary Lee of A-Major Media and John Cho producing.
The logline is being kept under wraps but we hear it’s a mind-bending genre tale that centers around an Asian-American protagonist.
San is a native of Libertyville, Illinois. He sold his original feature script, an erotic thriller entitled An Affair to Die For when his trajectory took a sharp turn and he was suddenly diagnosed with leukemia. Faced with getting a bone marrow transplant, San returned to his hometown of Chicago to undergo the procedure. After two years spent regaining his health, he found himself at a bit of a crossroads, but continued to pursue his love of screenwriting and returned to Los Angeles. Affair to Die for was recently released on Netflix. San draws on his unique upbringing to write at the intersection of genre and personal experience.
The logline is being kept under wraps but we hear it’s a mind-bending genre tale that centers around an Asian-American protagonist.
San is a native of Libertyville, Illinois. He sold his original feature script, an erotic thriller entitled An Affair to Die For when his trajectory took a sharp turn and he was suddenly diagnosed with leukemia. Faced with getting a bone marrow transplant, San returned to his hometown of Chicago to undergo the procedure. After two years spent regaining his health, he found himself at a bit of a crossroads, but continued to pursue his love of screenwriting and returned to Los Angeles. Affair to Die for was recently released on Netflix. San draws on his unique upbringing to write at the intersection of genre and personal experience.
- 10/8/2019
- by Anthony D'Alessandro
- Deadline Film + TV
Be careful what you lust for. Here’s an exclusive clip from Victor Garcia‘s (Mirrors 2, The Damned, Hellraiser: Revelations, Return to House on Haunted Hill) return to genre filmmaking with An Affair to Die For. In the film, “When a couple’s infidelity is discovered, they must play a twisted game of survival with their captor to save their family […]...
- 1/11/2019
- by Brad Miska
- bloody-disgusting.com
"No one leaves this room. Not you. Not her. Your family's in danger. Enjoy my wife." Aqute Media has released an official trailer for an indie thriller titled An Affair To Die For, a fun play on the title An Affair to Remember. The psychological mind games thriller is about an affair, obviously, and a secret rendezvous. A man cheats on his wife. A woman cheats on her husband. And then everything goes bad, quickly. The indie film stars Claire Forlani, Jake Abel, and Titus Welliver, along with Nathan Cooper and Melina Matthews. This looks like a very erotic mix of Fifty Shades of Grey and any other film where an affair leads to murder. Surprise, surprise. It aims to appeal to a very specific audience, for those who might be curious. Here's the official Us trailer (+ poster) for Víctor García's An Affair To Die For, direct from YouTube...
- 1/9/2019
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
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