Speaking with Allocine, "Steamboy" Director Katsuhiro Otomo claims to have read the first draft of the live action script of "Akira", which was "not very good" and so has asked for a lot of rewrites. Otomo meanwhile is working on a potential "Steamboy" sequel entitled "Steamgirl" and was asked by Guillermo Del Toro about directing "Domu".
Meanwhile, <em>The Beijing News</em> reports that John Woo and producer Terence Chang have arrived in Beijing to setup his "Battle of Red Cliff" project. A team of three are working on the screenplay, with pre-production to take at least a year and shooting will begin in late 2005 or early 2006. Budget of the project is a record of US$ 50 million. Woo's long overdue "Land Of Destiny" was still not ready, because the American writers were unable to come out a script portraying the Chinese correctly.
Thanks to 'Antoine'
