Chinese Remake of "What Women Want".

[OrlandoEastwood]

Chinese Remake of What Women Want is Happening, Starring Andy Lau and Gong Li

It's like Asia is flipping the bird for all our remakes. Gong Li is in it, so I'm for it.

The AP's Hong Kong entertainment bureau is reporting today (via io9) that veteran Hong Kong heartthrob and actor Andy Lau is teaming up with unreasonably gorgeous Chinese actress Gong Li to star in a domestic remake of What Women Want. Paramount Pictures apparently finalized the film rights sale earlier this week to Beijing's Polybona Film Distribution Company, all but ensuring that this bizarre romcom will be inflicted on the Chinese-speaking world.

The story never really made a heck of a lot of sense, but this time Lau steps in for Mel Gibson as the chauvinistic ad exec who gains the ability to read women's thoughts after being electrocuted with a hairdryer (which should have fried his brain into crispy bacon) while Li takes on Helen Hunt's character. It's like an old episode of The Flintstones where Fred drops a bowling ball on his head and becomes Frank Flimflam, conman extraordinaire, or Finch Finklestein, mob hit man. OK, neither of those every happened, but they're no less improbably than anybody ever thinking this movie would be made.

If you're just in the mood for some original Gibson/Hunt What Women Want action, look no further than the following deleted scenes from that movie after the jump.

[RocShemp]

And I'm sure this'll also get no complaints from the remake police.

Anyhoo, I'll gladly give this a shot.

[Batman1980]

Gong Li instead of Helen Hunt? Heck yeah, been wanting to see a new Gong Li movie since Hannibal Rising!

[steve_dave]

This is not the first HK remake of a US film:

Corey Yuen's The Bodyguard From Beijing is a loose remake of Mick Jackson's The Bodyguard.

Benny Chan's Connected is a remake of David R. Ellis' Cellular.

Yimou Zhang's A Simple Noodle Story is a remake of the Coen Brothers' Blood Simple.

Hong Kong even remade a French film:

Stephen Shin's Hei mao (Black Cat) is a remake of Luc Besson's La Femme Nikita.

[Michael1989]

Originally Posted by RocShemp

And I'm sure this'll also get no complaints from the remake police.

Anyhoo, I'll gladly give this a shot.

Lol I was thinking this.