Taiwanese Filmmakers Explore Overseas Markets; Good Image Bets On Jade Y. Chen Novel Adaptation, Crime Thriller ‘Chalk’
deadline.comTaiwanese filmmakers Nelson Yeh and Herb Hsu and U.S.-based, Taiwan-born writer-director Weiko Lin discussed strategies for taking Taiwanese content global at a seminar during Taiwan Creative Content Fest (TCCF) on Wednesday.
Lin is gearing up to direct Chalk, a thriller with U.S. and Taiwanese elements to be produced by Yeh’s Taipei-based Good Image and US producer Dave A.
Liu’s Lucrative Media (Didi, Sasquatch Sunset). The film revolves around a single mother who witnesses a murder, then is assigned a policeman to protect her who turns out to be her estranged son.
Lin, who is repped by Anonymous Content and UTA, has recently been scouting locations in Boston. Lin originally wrote the script as a wholly English-language project, but then decided to bring in Taiwanese characters and changed the script to include dialogue in both English and Chinese.
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