Lulu Wang — whose latest film “The Farewell” opens this weekend — has set her sights on her next directorial project in Alexander Weinstein’s “Children of the New World.”Plot details for the science-fiction film are being kept under wraps, but Wang is adapting the feature based on Weinstein’s collection of short stories of the same name.Dani Melia and Peter Saraf at Big Beach announced on Monday that they will produce the film along with Votiv’s Justin Lothrop.
Brent Stiefel from Votiv will serve as an executive producer.“Lulu and I have been friends for years now and we’re very excited to be collaborating with her on such an incredible project,” Lothrop said in a statement.
“When we started on this journey with her, I don’t think we could have imagined a better partner than Big Beach, and we couldn’t be more pleased about working with them on this.
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