De Niro to bring Mao Zedong to silver screen
July 23, 2007 on 1:16 pm | In Actors, Celebrity, Film, Good Deed, Hollywood, News, Oscar Winner, Pictures, Politics | No Comments
The rise of Mao Zedong and communism in China is to be brought to the big screen by none other that Hollywood actor Robert De Niro. The Oscar winning star has secured rights to Chasing The Dragon: A veteran Journalist’s First hand Account of the 1949 Chinese Revolution written by reporter Roy Rowan. Rowan a former Shanghai-based correspondent for Time and Life, who was one of the few western journalist reporting from inside China at the time of Mao’s rise to power. He will now act as a consultant on the film. America loves to make movies on Chinese communism and then though he will have a journalist’s Firsthand account but surely the movie will not be showing the truth, because there are political reason which can flare up the tensions between the two nation over the issue. If De Niro can make a comedy out of this movie that would really be out of the hat stuff, because there is always a lighter side to the grim happening of our world and to portray that would be a class act.
