Wayne Wang will direct a film adaptation entitled "A Thousand Years of Good Prayers" from Yiyun Li's acclaimed novel of the same title.
- Aug 3, 2006
AceShowbiz - It's another big screen adaptation project for Wayne Wang. "The Joy Luck Club" director has been tapped to helm "A Thousand Years of Good Prayers", a screen version of Yiyun Li's award-winning novel of the same title, Production Weekly has reported.
Slated to begin the production by this October in Spokane, Washington, the film version will be made based on a screenplay that centers on a Chinese man who travels to the Pacific Northwest to mend his relationship with his recently-divorced daughter. Upon landing his feet in U.S, he unexpectedly bumps into an older, Farsi-speaking Iranian woman, and though they face the inability to communicate with a common language, a bond begins to take form between them.
A collection of stories about life in modern China and the United States, "Good Prayers" was Li's debut as a novelist and has won her several honors, including those of PEN/Hemingway Award and California Book Award for the first fiction.
