TERENCE CHANG FINALLY GETS OFF HIS BUTT AND GOES TO WORK

Terence Chang, John Woo's producing partner in Hollywood, is known for doing...nothing much these days. Um, BULLETPROOF MONK? PAYCHECK? Nothing anyone cares about since 2000? Chang came over to Hollywood with Woo and after the two made a huge initial splash they've both sort of faded into the background, becoming famous for announcing projects that never came to completion.

But now, well, Terence Chang is going to work. Work, Terence, WORK! The latest news is that he's teamed up with Cineclick Asia for CHRISTMAS CARGO the three-years-in-the-works-so-far Korean war movie that has been developed by Blue Storm (the folks who did APRIL SNOW) and has an unnamed director attached to it, but I'll eat my hat if it's now Kang Je-Gyu (SHIRI, TAE GUK KI). Budgeted at US$20 million, the movie is about the Christmas 1950 evacuation of US and South Korean troops from Hamhung, an event sometimes referred to as "the Korean Dunkirk." It doesn't make anyone, except maybe the North Korean Army and PLA look good and you can read an eyewitness account of the retreat to Hamhung and the evacuation here.

This is the third big project Chang is undertaking. He's also producing John Woo's humungous THE BATTLE OF RED CLIFF and the Thai action film DETOUR.

Shooting for CHRISTMAS CARGO is scheduled to begin in the Fall of 2006.

Ladies and gentlemen, make way. Stand aside. Terence Chang is coming through. Terence Chang is going to work!