The new movie "Searching for the gun", directed by a graduate student now studying in the Central Drama School, has become so attractive to the overseas movie buyers and pictures making companies that even before the picture shooting starts, the overseas screening right of it has been bought out by a US movie company, the eastday.com reported.
The Columbia Pictures (Asia), a spin-off of the Sony Pictures, said it would like to pay 12 million yuan for the overseas copy right of the film. Columbia Pictures, the producer of last year's Oscar Award winner "Crouching tiger hidden dragon", then would become the only foreign distributor of the new film, which will start shooting on May 10.
It's the first time that a local movie has won overseas film producers' attraction right after its script is ready.
Lu Chuan, the scriptwriter and director of the film, is a young rising star who became famous in the country for his last TV series, the Dark Hole.
The 20-episodes TV drama was also scriptwritten by Lu, who made a small case into a nationwide hitting issue. With the TV drama making new ratings record throughout the country, Lu's fame also rose. Critics cite him as a young director, though not having graduated from his school courses, who is especially strong in mastering complicated plot and relationships in one movie.
The new movie "Searching for the gun" is about a policeman who lost his gun and went all out to get it back. The plot excites in the point that there are only three bullets left in the gun and the police's girlfriend was murdered right during that period of time.
The compactness, suspension and thrill that the movie conveys to the audience will surely make the film a new hit once it's finished, Lu promises.
Lu is son of the famous scriptwriter Lu Tianmin and nephew of a renowned novelist Lu Xin'er. His father won the best scriptwriter award in the last JinYing TV and Movie Awards. His aunt Lu Xin'er is a popular author of many children's books.
(eastday.com March 29, 2002)
