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Stan Lee of Marvel Fame Partners Chinese Media House To Produce Next Film
The screenplay was partly inspired by Stan Lee ’s 1976 daily strip, The Virtue of Vera Valiant, which is about a woman who inherits a resort hotel in space. Tianying plans to produce the film as a Chinese sci-fi comedy and hopes to be in production before the end of the year.
“We are so excited to be working with POW! Entertainment and to be able to bring the amazing script of The Last Resort to life,” said Wu Jian, CEO of Tianying Media, “We are focusing on the Chinese market, a rapidly growing audience that is extremely hungry for new ideas and a variety of different films.”
The script was initially brought to Tianying by producers Elliot Tong and Reinhard Schreiner of Los Angeles-based Roaring China, a company that connects filmmakers in Hollywood and Beijing.
Tianying Media is part of China’s state-owned Tianjin North Film Group and also has a distribution partnership with China Film Co. One of its first projects as a co-financier is the highly anticipated sci-fi disaster blockbuster Shanghai Fortress, directed by Teng Huatao and starring Shu Qi and Lu Han.
In the past few years, the 95-year-old comic book legend has been busy expanding his commercial interests in both India and China, having previously collaborated with Graphic India (partners in CR7’s latest animation project) on Chakra: The Invincible in late 2013.
