Wong Kar-Wai Will Also Direct Episodes Of His ‘Blossoms Shanghai’ Series Which Is Finally Confirmed

Hong Kong filmmaker Wong Kar Wai (“In The Mood For Love”) moves secretly and at his own pace, often taking several years between projects. And per usual, the road to his latest film has been circuitous and perhaps filled with twists and turns and misinformation—perhaps some of it lost in translation or some of it warped from the notoriously controlling Chinese government, who knows. But the story of Wong Kar Wai’s latest project “Blossoms” goes a little something like this: following 2013’s “The Grandmaster,” lots of talk of projects that never come to fruition, an Amazon series called, “Tong Wars,” an 18-part online series which may or may not be the same project, a Gucci fashion/family dynasty story produced by Annapurna’s Megan Ellison, and then something called, “Blossoms.” First it’s a film, then a TV series that leads up to a film, and it’s reportedly part of the trilogy that includes “In The Mood For Love” and its loose spiritual sequel, “2046.

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