Tsui Hark will produce and hopefully director Shin, Queen of the Sea, a feature film about the most successful pirate queen in history.
, a pioneer of the Hong Kong New Wave and one of the best action directors in the world, will co-produce the Chinese pirate epic, Dakota Group, and Facing East. The movie will be about a real-life woman who was the most successful pirate in history.Deadline
, McCarten wrote the script about Ching Shih, aka Shih Yang, aka Cheng I Sao, who dominated the South China Sea during the Qing Dynasty. Born into poverty, she worked on a"flower boat" brothel where she met the notorious pirate leader Cheng Yi, joining him at sea. Upon his death in 1807, she assumed full command of the fearsome Red Flag Fleet, commanding over 1,800 pirate ships and an estimated 80,000 pirates.
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