Hong Kong heartthrob Andy Lau
The director, Daniel Lee, said he has already scouted locations in China and filming will begin next June.
The new movie tracks an elder's recollections of ancient Chinese battles.
``I've worked on this story for more than 10 years,'' Lee said on the sidelines of a promotional event for his new release, Dragon Squad.
Lau is currently working on Mozi's War Strategy, another movie set in ancient China.
Ge is known for films such as To Live, Big Shot's Funeral and A World Without Thieves.
American director Terry Gilliam said in Prague that he expects to resume work on Don Quixote, which was set to be the biggest European film ever made but was shelved five days into filming.
"There is a possibility now, for the first time, that we might get the script of Don Quixote back," Gilliam said during a news conference to mark the Czech premiere of his film The Brothers Grimm.
"If we can get the film out of the hands of the lawyers, then that will be my next project," said the former Monty Python member, adding that he felt "hopeful."
Although rights to the script have been frozen for several years because of a conflict between the French producer and a German insurance company, a decision could come "before the end of the year," Gilliam said following the news conference.
Although Jean Rochefort will not be able to play Don Quixote, "the presence of Johnny Depp is secured," Gilliam added.
Like Orson Welles, GW Pabst and Grigori Kozintsev, the director of Brazil has long dreamed of adapting the Cervantes masterpiece under the title The Man Who Killed Don Quixote.
In early 2000, Gilliam gathered US$32 million in financing. But the film starring French singer Vanessa Paradis and Spanish actor Rosy de Palma, Pedro Almodovar's muse, collapsed after only five days of filming in Spain.
Aged 70 at the time, Jean Rochefort suffered from a double hernia which preventing him from mounting a horse, prompting the insurance company to cancel the project.
Oscar-winning actor Michael Douglas has signed on to star in a new comedy being produced by the acclaimed director of Sideways and About Schmidt, Alexander Payne, industry has press said.
Douglas, 61, will star in The King of California, the story of a young girl whose adolescence is complicated by an eccentric father who becomes obsessed with a belief about buried treasure, Daily Variety said.
The film, which is set to begin shooting in February, will mark the feature directing debut of Michael Cahill, best known for his Faulkner Prize-winning novel A Nixon Man.
And Spanish actress Penelope Cruz and diminutive US star Danny DeVito have joined Oscar-winning actress Gwyneth Paltrow in a new romantic comedy being directed by her brother, industry reports said.
Vanilla Sky star Cruz and Romancing the Stone star DeVito have been cast in Jake Paltrow's first movie, The Good Night, which is set to begin filming in London in less than two weeks, Daily Variety said.
Shakespeare in Love actress Paltrow, 33, and British actors Martin Freeman and Simon Pegg will also take roles in the US$15 million film.
Superstar Tom Cruise has dropped his sister as his movie publicist and hired a top Hollywood agent after coming under intense media fire for publicly mixing his religious views with his movie-making.
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