The ever-busy Japanese personality star Tadanobu Asano– presently having a minute as one of the celebrities of Disney’s hit samurai collection Shōgun– has actually signed up with the actors of Thai director Pen-ek Ratanaruang‘s upcoming culinary thriller Morte Cucina. The actor and director last collaborated two decades ago on the romantic crime film Last Life in the Universe (2003), which was Thailand’ s main entry to the Oscars that year and won Asano the most effective star honor at the Venice Movie Event.
Embed in modern Bangkok, Morte Cucina complies with a skilled young women cook called Sao that has an opportunity experience with a male that sexually abused her when she was a teenager. “Using her talents in the kitchen, Sao sets her plan of revenge in motion — achieving a rather unexpected result,” the movie’s logline checks out..
The task’s manufacturers are maintaining the nature of Asano’s duty under covers in the meantime, however they have actually exposed that newbie Thanatphon Boonsang will certainly play the main duty of Sao, while Thai celebrities Nopachai Chaiyanam and Kris Srepoomseth will certainly take 2 of the man leads. Nopachai formerly starred in Pen-ek’s 2011 criminal offense thriller Headshot, which premiered at the Toronto International Movie Event.
Morte Cucina is co-written by Pen-ek and Kongdej Jaturanrasamee (Appetite, Faces of Anne). It’s Pen-ek’s very first function given that his noir criminal offense thriller Samui Tune in 2017. Professional, Asia-based cinematographer Christopher Doyle, best understood for his partnerships with Wong Kar-wai, will certainly lens the movie.
Morte Cucina will certainly be generated by Soros Sukhum of 185 Movies (which just recently generated Netflix’s Thai thriller Appetite) and Asia-based manufacturer Conor Zorn, with Manuel Chiche from Joker Movies and Alexandra Hoesdorff of Bargain Productions co-producing. Goodfellas (previously Wild Number) is managing global sales, apart from The United States and Canada, which CAA is standing for.
The movie is anticipated to enter into manufacturing in April, with the filmmakers targeting a best at a significant European celebration following year.
