Film set on Silk Road planned
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鈥淭wilight鈥 director Catherine Hardwicke said she is making a sweeping romantic epic set in an ancient Silk Road city located in present-day western China.
鈥淟oulan鈥 will be based on a city and kingdom of the same name that mysteriously disappeared hundreds of years ago. Its ruins are surrounded by desert in Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, which stretches to Central Asia. One mummy unearthed from the area in recent decades is known as the 鈥淟oulan Beauty,鈥 and she was Caucasian with European features.
Hardwicke said the US$50 million China-US co-production will revolve around a princess who may be the Loulan Beauty鈥檚 鈥済reat-great- granddaughter,鈥 and who will be played by an American or English actress.
It will be set in 200 BC, at a time when Loulan was a thriving city on the Silk Road trading route that linked China to the West. The script is still being written, but the story, in what is planned to be the first part of a trilogy, will see Loulan fought over by Han Chinese and warlike nomads, the Huns.
鈥淲e have the princess who is in a kind of neutral kingdom at the nexus to the Silk Road, Loulan, and she鈥檚 trying to keep peace and stay neutral, between the Huns to the north and the Han Dynasty (206 BC-220 AD) to the east,鈥 Hardwicke said. She said the two warring sides both send 鈥測oung charismatic hot men diplomats to try to win her heart and her loyalty.鈥
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