International Courant
The ever-busy Japanese character actor Tadanobu Asano — presently having a second as one of many stars of Disney’s hit samurai sequence Shōgun — has joined the forged of Thai director Pen-ek Ratanaruang’s upcoming culinary thriller Morte Cucina. The actor and director final collaborated 20 years in the past on the romantic crime movie Final Life within the Universe (2003), which was Thailand’s official submission to the Oscars that 12 months and gained Asano the most effective actor award on the Venice Movie Competition.
Set in up to date Bangkok, Morte Cucina follows a gifted younger feminine chef named Sao who has an opportunity encounter with a person who sexually abused her when she was an adolescent. “Utilizing her skills within the kitchen, Sao units her plan of revenge in movement — reaching a reasonably surprising consequence,” the movie’s logline reads.
The venture’s producers are conserving the character of Asano’s position underneath wraps for now, however they’ve revealed that newcomer Thanatphon Boonsang will play the central position of Sao, whereas Thai stars Nopachai Chaiyanam and Kris Srepoomseth will take two of the male leads. Nopachai beforehand starred in Pen-ek’s 2011 crime thriller Headshot, which premiered on the Toronto Worldwide Movie Competition.
Morte Cucina is co-written by Pen-ek and Kongdej Jaturanrasamee (Starvation, Faces of Anne). It is Pen-ek’s first characteristic since his noir crime thriller Samui Tune in 2017. Veteran, Asia-based cinematographer Christopher Doyle, finest recognized for his collaborations with Wong Kar-wai, will lens the movie.
Morte Cucina shall be produced by Soros Sukhum of 185 Movies (which not too long ago produced Netflix’s Thai thriller Starvation) and Asia-based producer Conor Zorn, with Manuel Chiche from Joker Movies and Alexandra Hoesdorff of Deal Productions co-producing. Goodfellas (previously Wild Bunch) is dealing with worldwide gross sales, except for North America, which CAA is representing.
The movie is predicted to enter manufacturing in April, with the filmmakers concentrating on a premiere at a serious European competition subsequent 12 months.
