‘Dracula’: Chloé Zhao To Write & Direct A Sci-Fi Western Reimagining Of The Classic Vampire

Chloé Zhao's Oscars favorite Nomadland has been given the green light for a limited theatrical release in China. The neo-Western's pacing and themes would usually make for a challenging fit for China's commercially driven film market, but the director's Chinese origins —and the acclaim her work already has received — have generated excitement among some Chinese film buffs.

The Vancouver Film Critics Circle has named Chloé Zhao's Nomadland as its best international feature of 2020 as the American road movie continued its run as an early award season contender. Zhao also picked up the best director honor, while Frances McDormand earned the best actress trophy for her role in Nomadland.The late Chadwick Boseman was voted best actor for his star turn in Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom.

Chloe Zhao is having a moment. She’s won almost every possible Best Director accolade for a film released over the past 14 months and “Nomadland,” the motion picture in question, is expected to be a major Oscar player when the nominations are announced next month.

Chloé Zhao would have had one helluva end to 2020: The plan was to release both of her new films back-to-back — first, her superhero blockbuster,, followed by her awards contender, — but then the pandemic changed everything.Her Marvel movie — which stars Angelina Jolie, Salma Hayek, Kumail Nanjiani and more as the immortal protectors of humankind — was postponed a full year to Nov.

By all accounts that we’ve heard so far, it would appear that Marvel Studios basically gave Chloe Zhao a ton of creative independence in developing her upcoming superhero blockbuster, “Eternals.” She’s already talked about how she is a writer on the script (a fairly rare feat in terms of Marvel films) and how she’s still using a lot of the same filming techniques (natural lighting, small camera rigs, etc…) that she has mastered with her previous indie features such as “The Rider” and the recent

“One of the things I love most about this life, is there’s no final goodbye’s, let’s just say, I’ll see ya down the road,” a nomad and non-professional actor says to Frances McDormand in Chloé Zhao‘s critically acclaimed drama “Nomadland.”Co-starring David Strathairn, the film, a soulful, sad American Western drama about economic hardship and life on the open road is otherwise, free of stars and populated with real nomad, non-professional actors, many of whom are excellent revelations like Linda

For Nomadland, writer-director Chloé Zhao adapted Jessica Bruder’s 2017 book Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century into a screenplay, got Frances McDormand to star in the movie, and hasn’t looked back since.

Chloé Zhao has made three feature films to date, each of them blending narrative storytelling with non-fiction. Her debut, Songs My Brothers Taught Me, told the story of Native American siblings struggling to find their place in a changing world.

The Toronto Film Critics Association named Chloe Zhao's Nomadland as its best picture of 2020 as the American road movie continued its run as an early award season contender. On Sunday, Zhao picked up the best director honor for Nomadland, which also earned Frances McDormand the best actress trophy for her role in the film, while Riz Ahmed earned a win for best actor for his performances in Sound of Metal.

Fresh off the criminally underseen “Birds of Prey,” director Cathy Yan has found her next project: an adaptation of Rachel Khong‘s sci-fi comedy short story, “The Freshening.” READ MORE: Cathy Yan Talks About ‘Dead Pigs’ Finally Coming To The U.S.

A new Dracula movie is in the works!

Brent Lang Executive Editor of Film and MediaCathy Yan, fresh off her success with “Birds of Prey,” will write and direct “The Freshening,” an adaptation of Rachel Khong’s short story. FilmNation, the company behind “Promising Young Woman” and “Arrival,” acquired rights to the story and will back the feature.The science-fiction comedy will be set in a near future where tensions over race and gender have reached a boiling point.

Universal Pictures is developing an original futuristic sci-fi western inspired by Universal’s classic monster Dracula with Chloé Zhao who recently received two Golden Globe nominations for Nomadland in the directing and screenwriting categories.  She’ll write, direct and produce through her production company Highwayman.

Adam B. Vary Senior Entertainment Writer“Nomadland” director Chloé Zhao is tackling the classic Universal monster Dracula, as the writer, producer, and director of a new take on the character in the vein of a futuristic sci-fi Western.“I’ve always been fascinated by vampires and the concept of the Other they embody,” Zhao said in a release.

Also Read: 'Nomadland': How Frances McDormand Got Amazon to Agree to Shooting in a Real WarehouseIt’s worth noting that this will be a separate feature from another “Dracula” project Blumhouse is producing from director Karyn Kusama.

The actors are always full of surprises when it comes to the SAG Awards. Sometimes they are good (“Parasite” winning Ensemble last year), sometimes they perplexing (remember when Emily Blunt won for “A Quiet Place” just two years ago?) and often you wonder what they were thinking (remember that “Trumbo” ensemble nomination?).

Multihyphenate Chloé Zhao wrote, directed, edited and produced Nomadland, but she notes, "I'm happier in the editing room than I am anywhere else in the process. "I grew up with manga.

recognized a record number of women in one of its most coveted brackets.The announcement was made on Wednesday morning, when the Hollywood Foreign Press Association revealed their nominations for Best Director. Regina King received a nod for One Night in Miami, Chloé Zhao for Nomadland, and Emerald Fennell was nominated for Promising Young Woman.

Women filmmakers are finally getting some real representation in awards season.

The nominations for the 78th annual Golden Globe Awards left much to be desired when it came to representation and inclusion (no love for Da 5 Bloods, I May Destroy You, really?) but there were some strides worth celebrating when it came to diverse nominees. One notable nod was for Nomadland filmmaker Chloe Zhao who became the first director of Asian descent to receive a Golden Globe nomination.