Member whitesnake Posted December 9, 2018 Member Share Posted December 9, 2018 "Antoine Fuqua will develop to produce and potentially direct the historical action epic, The Devil Soldier, based on Caleb Carr's bestselling novel... The Devil Soldier is a historical epic which follows the American outlaw-turned-mercenary Frederick Townsend Ward during the Taiping Rebellion." From https://deadline.com/2018/12/antoine-fuqua-the-devil-soldier-caleb-carr-1202511374/ IMDB lists this as in development with a release date of 2020. The Devil Soldier: The American Soldier of Fortune Who Became a God in China was written by Caleb Carr, who also wrote The Alienist. "The Devil Soldier follows the American outlaw turned mercenary Frederick Townsend Ward during the Taiping Rebellion, which was a massive rebellion in China that was waged from 1850 to 1964 between the established Manchu-led Qing dynasty and the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom under Hong Xiuquan. Carr's book, which has sold millions of copies since its release in 1991, traces Ward's life fighting with Garibaldi in South America, William Walker in Central America, the French army in the Crimea, and specifically, in China during the Taiping Rebellion." From https://www.comingsoon.net/movies/news/1015163-antoine-fuqua-adapting-caleb-carrs-the-devil-soldier Strange that such a momentous event in Chinese history has rarely been a setting in Chinese movies, except for Shaw Brothers' The Blood Brothers (1973) and The Warlords (2007). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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