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Interview: It will be Chinese Lord of the Rings: Chinese novelist Cang Yue

Xinhua, May 25, 2015 Adjust font size:

"We want to create a Chinese Lord of the Rings. There are two rings in the story and the origin of the book comes from there," Chinese novelist Cang Yue told Xinhua in Cannes.

"I finished this book eight years ago, and from the beginning I had the idea to adapt the story of the books into a movie, but at that time the visual effects technology were not good enough like today," Cang Yue told Xinhua in an exclusive interview during the presentation of the film project "The Mirror: Twin Cities" at the 68 Cannes Film Festival.

The Mirror is an epic tale of love, war and magic. Spanning decades and oceans. The story takes place in Eden, a fantastical world of powerful sorcery, tragic romance, meticulously detailed action sequences and thrilling quests, and it features a colorful cast of complex characters.

The contemporary book series, written by Chinese wuxia novelist Cang Yue, has already been sold more than seven million copies. The Mirror series consists of six books:" Twin Cities", "Po Jun", "Long Zhan", "Pi Tian", "Shen Ji" and "Zhi Meng Zhe". Yue's most recognized works include The Mirror series, Tingxue Avilion, The Feather series, Wind Flowers and Deepest Dark.

High level technology will be key for this project, Cang Yue explained.

"I'm very satisfied with the team and about this China-Canada coproduction, I would like to have in the film very high quality visual effects and I would like to reach the Hollywood top level," she said, adding that she would like to use the CGI (Computer-generated imagery) technology to make become true all the characters in the book.

According to the novelist, China can have the high level technology from other countries, like Canada and the United States. And an international vision to make the movie more competitive abroad is needed.

The project will be developed for the international market as multiple English feature films, and the books will be published in English and presented at the New York Book Expo America.

The script of this movie is not finished yet, but the story is very large and it will be necessary to cut some unnecessary parts, Yue explained.

"I will keep in touch with the screenwriter John Collee," She added.

The production of the movie will be in the hands of Liming Ke ("So Young" and "Tiny Times"), Danny Bergeron ("Jupiter Ascending", and "X-Men: Days of Future Past") and Andrew Mason ("The Matrix").

Cang Yue thinks that the emotions, affection and love among all the characters will touch the foreign audience like, for example, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon by Ang Lee.

"Even if we have a different culture, I would like to use this oriental style of love and emotion among characters and to touch western people's heart," she stressed. Endit