THE WRATH OF KHAN - GENGHIS KHAN

You can't keep Haruki Kadokawa down. The guy has just come off the big success of YAMATO (which opened on Dec. 17) and now in one month he's set up and gone into preproduction on the even bigger and more expensive epic, BLUE WOLF: UNTIL THE LAND ENDS AND THE SEA FINISHES, about the life of Genghis Khan.

This flick has been a longtime dream of Kadokawa's and he's basing the film on two Japanese books about Khan, BLUE WOLF and UNTIL THE LAND ENDS AND THE SEA FINISHES. Supposedly it's going to focus more on Ghengis' ladies: his mother, his wife and his concubine. He held off on doing anything about the movie until YAMATO opened but then he leapt into action and within one month he's brought Shochiku on board as a partner, as well as Japanese music giant Avex, and he's secured the cooperation of the Mongolian government as well as 3000 of their soldiers to play cavalry. Currently he's taking a breather and working on casting.

Good thing he's not doing cocaine anymore, or he would have finished the movie by now.

(Thanks to Hoga Central for the update)