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Ever since the box office in China started to explode, Hollywood has been trying to find ways to court the country’s viewers, whether it’s remaking The Karate Kid and setting it in China or shooting Chinese-only scenes for Iron Man 3.

A couple of years ago Legendary, the company behind the likes of Godzilla and Pacific Rim, even set up a China based offshoot and announced plans for a movie about the Great Wall Of China. Now it’s moving forward with Deadline reporting the Matt Damon is circling to star and Zhang Yimou (Hero, House Of Flying Daggers) set to direct.

The film was originally due to shoot last year with with Henry Cavill and Benjamin Walker set to star and Ed Zwick directing. That all fell through though, so they’re starting over with the hope Damon will sign on.

There’s still not too much info on Carlo Bernard and Doug Miro’s script (with more recent work by Tony Gilroy), other than that it ‘reveals the mystery behind why the Great Wall was built, and the secrets hidden beneath its stones’.

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The Flowers Of War gets an Oscar-qualifying release in the US later this week, ready for a big awards run, with the hope the Chinese made movie may become the first fully made and funded in that country to win the big gongs. Whether it will remains to be seen, but if this trailer’s anything to go by, it’s a powerful and visually arresting movie. While it’s Chinese made, with Hero’s Yang Zhimou directing, the film is attempt to appeal to western audiences with most of it in English, with Christian Bale starring. The film sees Bale as a priest caught up in the events following the fall on Nanjing to the Japanese in 1937, with the plot revolving around a group of Chinese sex workers who volunteer to replace university students as forced escorts for invading soldiers. No UK release is currently fixed.

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The Flowers Of War Trailer