Hero and House of Flying Daggers director Zhang Yimou has done the unthinkable (as in, I don’t know how they thought up doing it) and remade the Coen brothers directorial debut, Blood Simple. More closely translated, A Simple Noodle Story, it follows “the owner of a Chinese noodle shop’s scheme to murder his adulterous wife and her lover goes awry.” Check out the trailer for the Golden Bear-nominated film below via Apple.
Synopsis: Wang is a miserable yet cunning noodle shop owner in a desert town in China. Feeling neglected, Wang’s wife secretly goes out with Li, one of his employees. A timid man, Li reluctantly keeps the gun the landlady bought for ‘killing her husband later’. However, not a single move they make escapes the boss’s notice, and he decides to bribe patrol officer Zhang to kill the illicit couple. It looks like a perfect plan: the affair will come to a cruel but satisfying end… or so he thinks, but the equally wicked Zhang has an agenda of his own that will lead to even more violence…
A Woman, a Gun and a Noodle Shop hits theaters September 3rd, 2010.
What do you think of a Blood Simple remake? Do you like the trailer?