Zhang Yimou to remake Coens' 'Blood Simple'

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Jeff Labrecque
Jeff Labrecque
Jeff Labrecque is a former senior editor at Entertainment Weekly. He left EW in 2018.
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Published on July 29, 2009 04:33PM EDT

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.

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