Roseanne Liang is turning her 2017 Sundance short “Do No Harm” into a feature. The Chinese-New Zealand filmmaker will direct the pic and Justine Gillmer (“The 100”) will pen the script. Deadline broke the news.
Set in 1995 Chinatown, “Do No Harm” centers on a surgeon who is “forced to break her physician’s oath to save the person she loves in the middle of a violent gang war,” the source summarizes.
“The film was inspired by my own complicated relationship with theoretical violence,” Liang said of her short. “Since motherhood, I’ve become more aware of my own murderous potential. I harbor dark thoughts, wonder about the lengths to which I would go to protect my children. My desire to make action films is a catharsis of these undignified, visceral emotions,” she explained.
Liang is among the feature’s producers. Her other credits include “My Wedding and Other Secrets” and “Banana in a Nutshell.” She’s signed on to direct “Fuse,” an action pic about a government assassin with split personality disorder.
