Kate Hudson and Ken Watanabe are set to star in Bruce Beresford's "A Dream of Red Mansions" from Capitol Films reports Variety.
Inspired by a true story, it's an epic romance set against the backdrop of the Chinese Revolution in 1949. Hudson plays an American photojournalist who falls for an idealistic revolutionary (Watanabe).
Production is scheduled to start in October in Taiwan with a script by Donald Martin.
