The rise of Mao Zedong in China is to be brought to the big screen
by actor-director Robert De Niro, entertainment press reported on
Monday.
The Oscar-winning star of Taxi Driver and Raging
Bull has secured the rights to Chasing the Dragon: A
Veteran Journalist's Firsthand Account of the 1949 Chinese
Revolution written by reporter Roy Rowan, Variety
reported.
Rowan, a former Shanghai-based correspondent for Time
and Life who was one of the few western journalists
reporting from inside China at the time of Mao's rise to power,
will act as a consultant on the film, the report added.
(Agencied via CRI.cn July 19, 2007)
