Trailer for Zhang Yimou’s BLOOD SIMPLE Remake Hits

There’s arrows.  There’s cannons.  There’s explosions.  There’s wackiness.  What more could you ask for in a remake to the Coen Brothers’ BLOOD SIMPLE.  Just going off this new trailer, you wouldn’t think it has anything to do with the 1984 original, but it’s in there.

AMAZING TALES: THREE GUNS is directed by Zhang Yimou, who brought us HERO and HOUSE OF FLYING DAGGERS, and it looks like it offers just about everything that made those films such instant classics.

Check it out:

Yimou has stated that BLOOD SIMPLE is one of his all-time favorite films, so I have no doubt that he is going to capture the mood and underlying themes of that film with this picture.  The film will, evidently, be cut into two segments, a thriller segment and a comedic segment, with two pairs of actors playing the lead roles in each segment.

Now, if someone could just get M. Emmet Walsh to wield one of those swords, we be in business.

A release is set in China for December 11th.  Expect it to hit American theaters somewhere in the middle of 2010.