Lulu Wang has lined up yet another project. The “Farewell” filmmaker is already set to make her small-screen debut with “The Expatriates,” an original Amazon series exec produced by Nicole Kidman, and write and direct sci-fi feature “Children of the New World,” and now word comes that she’ll direct an English-language project inspired by Hirokazu Kore-eda’s 2013 Japanese family drama “Like Father, Like Son” for Focus Features.
“‘Like Father, Like Son’ follows the complicated story that arises when a businessman learns that the son he’s come to love isn’t actually his, but another set of parents’ child switched at birth,” Deadline details.
Tony Award-nominated playwright Sarah Ruhl will write the screenplay. Two of her plays, “The Clean House” and “In the Next Room or the vibrator play,” have been Pulitzer Prize finalists.
Wang’s 2019 Awkwafina-starrer “The Farewell” was one of the best-reviewed films of the year. Based on an actual lie, the pic tells the story of a family who decides not to tell their grandmother about her terminal diagnosis. She made her feature debut with 2014’s “Posthumous.”
When we asked Wang about the worst advice she’s received, she told us that it was “to be aware of the demands of the industry and marketplace in developing your early films. Finding your voice as an artist is incredibly challenging — it’s important to shut out the noise,” she emphasized.
