The Extra Zone (working title), a comedy about the life of a film extra, is a project that again teams up star Tony Yang (楊佑寧) and director DJ Chen (陳映蓉) as in Formula 17, which was the second-best-sold local film in Taiwan by grossing some NT$6 million and selling internationally, including at venues in the US and Japan. The film also won a Best New Performer award for actor Tony Yang.
Three Dots' third planned film is Metrosexual 101 (搶救無趣男), written by the screenwriter of Formula 17, Rady Fu. Taiwan's genre-driven films, especially those with horror themes, will come in groups in 2005.
Su Chao-pin (蘇照彬), the screenwriter of the 2002 hit thriller Double Vision (雙瞳) and the 2003 Hong Kong horror flick Three (三更), will be making an NT$3 million horror film Silk (鬼絲).
The film has received NT$400,000 from the government's Subsidy for Film Production and Taiwan DVD maker and technology giant CMC Magnetics will be among the major investors of the film.
Scheduled to start shooting in March, Silk explores the mysterious legend that one's doom is near if one finds a string of silk on one's back. Rene Liu (劉若英) and Tony Leung Kar-fai (梁家輝) from Double Vision are among the casting choices.
Also coming in on the horror-flick train is Alice Wang (王毓雅) with her Aunt Tiger (虎姑婆), which is adapted from an ancient Chinese folk tale about a child-eating old lady, and Stan Yin's (尹祺) E Yue (惡月), whose investor is Central Motion Picture Corporation (中影, CMPC), Taiwan's oldest film studio. Both films are in post production.
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