Tran Anh Hung to work with 'Wood'
French-Vietnamese director to adapt novel
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Fuji TV and Asmik Ace will jointly produce the Japanese-language pic. The cast has yet to be decided, but shooting is skedded to start in February in Japan for a 2010 release.
Tran won the Venice Golden Lion in 1995 for "Cyclo" and was Oscar-nommed for his 1993 debut feature "Scent of Green Papaya." His latest pic is the 2008 thriller "I Come With the Rain," starring Josh Hartnett, Elias Koteas, Lee Byung-hun, Takuya Kimura and Shawn Yue.
Published in Japan in 1987, "Norwegian Wood" depicts the loves and losses of a sensitive college boy in the 1960s who is more interested in American literature than in the era's political upheavals. The novel sold 8.7 million copies in Japan and has been translated into 36 languages.
Murakami has been reluctant to allow screen adaptations of his work, though he is reportedly enthusiastic about the choice of Tran for "Norwegian Wood."
In 2004 Jun Ichikawa helmed "Tony Takitani," a pic based on a Murakami short story that screened at fests around the world and was released in the U.S. in 2005.
