Chinese filmmaker Zhang Yimou (House of Flying Daggers) will remake the Coen brothers’ first feature, 1984's Blood Simple. According to Variety, Zhang will transplant the original's dusty, Texas setting to a Chinese desert restaurant, where the owner schemes to murder his cheating wife.
Jul 29
2009
12:33 PM ET
Zhang Yimou to remake Coens' 'Blood Simple'
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Will you guys please just do a little research and figure out how Asians present their names, especially when it’s someone of Zhang Yimou’s stature. FYI Zhang is his surname and Yimou is his given name. To refer to him as “Yimou” is like calling director Raimi “Sam”.