New Title, Release Date for 'Blood Simple' Remake

The upcoming Zhang Yimou remake of Joel and Ethan Coen's Blood Simple has a new title, a new release date, and a new production photo all courtesy of Sony Pictures Classics. The title is now A Woman, a Gun, and a Noodle Shop and it's coming out on September 3rd.
Click to Enlarge At one point, the movie was called The First Gun or Three Guns, and all the titles make sense when you read the synopsis. As for the remake itself, it's so far culturally removed from the Coen Bros. flick that in the hands of Zhang Yimou, one of the single best filmmakers alive, I have no worries at all.

"Wang is a gloomy and cunning noodle shop owner in a desert town in China. Feeling neglected, Wang's wife secretly goes out with Li, one of his employees. A timid man, Li reluctantly keeps the gun the landlady bought for 'killing her husband later.' Every single move they make, however, does not escape the boss's notice. Wang decides to bribe patrol officer Zhang to kill the illicit couple. It looks like a perfect plan: The affair will come to a cruel but satisfying end...or so he thinks, but the equally wicked Zhang has an agenda of his own that will lead to even more violence..."

Comments

[quin browne]

Agreed on the new director. However, to remake that film.. ACK!! I've found in my years of discussing this film that you either love it or hate it...

....I bet you can guess what camp I'm in on that statement.

[J.Bradley]

Interesting. Sounds like the way "A Fistfull of Dollars" is a remake of "Yojimbo".