Written by 'The World Is Not Enough' scribe, 'Alibaba' chronicles Ma's youth and the time he found the online retailer.
- September 25, 2014
AceShowbiz -
Less than a week after Jack Ma officially became the richest man in China, he's getting a biopic made. A script for feature movie, titled "Alibaba" after Ma's group of Internet-based e-commerce businesses, is already available.
Ma launched an IPO for Alibaba on Friday, September 19 on the New York Stock Exchange. With a market cap of $231 billion, the online retailer is nearly as valuable as Wal-Mart and bigger than Amazon and eBay combined. He became the richest man in China and among the richest in the world with nett worth of $26.5 billion.
"Bond" movies scribe Bruce Feirstein wrote a script based on Ma's life with Janet Yang producing. According to Deadline, Yang had a relationship with Ma and she approached Feirstein who was rewriting and producing domestic audience films in China. The script covers a period from Ma's youth, the time he founded Alibaba in his tiny apartment in Hanzhou, China 15 years ago and his battle against eBay in China.
The plan is to shoot the film in China, with some taking place in America.
