Ron Howard will direct a new, as-yet-untitled biopic on world-renowned pianist Lang Lang based on the memoir Journey of a Thousand Miles by Lang and David Ritz.
Stuart Ford's AGC Studios is financing the new film, which Brian Grazer will produce through his and Howard's Imagine Entertainment shingle.
Michelle Mulroney and Kieran Mulroney will adapt the book for the screen. Lang Lang and Jean-JacquesCesbron will act as executive producers on the film, together with Polygram Entertainment's Michele Anthony and David Blackman.
Journey of a Thousand Miles traces Lang Lang's extraordinary life story, from his childhood in the provincial city of Shenyang in Northern China to the peak of the global classic music industry.
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