Hollywood Will Shoot A New Crown Virus Theme Movie, Focusing On Chinese Medical Care

Hollywood's film and television project around the new crown virus finally decided to take action.

According to a report by the US media "The Wall Street Journal" on June 27, the Hollywood film company SK Global Entertainment, which had produced "Golden Frog", recently revealed that they will make a movie about the new crown epidemic in the first few weeks of the outbreak in China. The story that happened.

The company has invited Charles Randolph, who has won the Academy Award for Best Screenplay, as the screenwriter.

Randolph said in an interview that the film will focus on the lens of medical workers in China.

He told the Wall Street Journal: "How the virus fell from the bat cave to Wuhan, this is not a problem that we can solve in a short time. Therefore, this movie will focus on the medical direction, rather than present it as a story The thriller of the plague."

SK Global Entertainment's co-CEOs John Pennotti and Charlie Corvin said that they hope to plan this project to be a Sino-US co-production, so they are in contact and negotiation with some film and television companies from China.

Both Pennotti and Corvin bluntly stated that Chinese film and television companies can play a key role in the production process, especially in the context that China is the world's second largest box office market after the United States.

The two also hope that the film can be successfully launched in China in early 2021.

However, they did not disclose whether the film already has a definite name and how much money will be invested in the film.

Public reports show that SK Global Entertainment is an independent film financing and production company headquartered in Los Angeles, which was merged from its predecessor SKE and Hong Kong-based language content company Ivanhoe Pictures (IP) in March 2017. Films that have been produced before include "Golden Romance" and "Going to the Fire".

In March last year, after a fierce competition, SK Global Entertainment won the filming rights of the 13 members of the cave rescue incident of the "Wild Boar" football team in Sleeping Beauty Cave, Chiang Rai Province, Thailand.

It is also understood that Li Xian, the company's senior vice president, is responsible for the development and production of global film and TV projects related to Asia in SK Global Entertainment. She has graduated from Peking University and the University of Southern California. She has led the creative development and production in the 20th Century Fox International Production in Asia. She has also worked in the 20th Century Fox International Distribution Department and has conducted more than 30 films internationally. Marketing and distribution.

The industry believes that the filming of a medical theme about the first few weeks of the outbreak of China's new crown virus should also come from Li Xian's handwriting.