Robert De Niro to bring Mao Zedong to big screen LOS ANGELES (AFP) - The rise of Mao Zedong and communism in China is to be brought to the big screen by actor-director Robert De Niro, entertainment press reported on Monday. The Oscar-winning star of "Taxi Driver" and "Raging Bull" has secured the rights to "Chasing the Dragon: A Veteran Journalist's Firsthand Account of the 1949 Chinese Revolution" written by reporter Roy Rowan, Variety reported. Rowan, a former Shanghai-based correspondent for Time and Life who was one of the few western journalists reporting from inside China at the time of Mao's rise to power, will act as a consultant on the film, the report added. I'm guessing this movie won't be available in China.
wonder who's gonna play him if this is really gonna be happening, and i respect robert de niro as a director.
