Zhang Yimou In Talks To Direct 'Quasimodo' With Josh Brolin

Briefly: Warner Bros. has been developing Quasimodo for a while, with Josh Brolin attached to star and produce. The idea, as the title implies, is to present a new vision of the title character drawn from Victor Hugo's The Hunchback of Notre Dame. We don't know who Brolin would play, or what direction the story is taking. But there's a script (one draft is by Kieran and Nichele Mulroney) and now there's a director. We told you about this back in 2011, when Tim Burton was rumored to be in the picture to direct. That never quite came together, but the film hasn't died.Zhang Yimou (Hero, Raise the Red Lantern, House of Flying Daggers) is now in talks to make the movie. While Yimou's last film, The Flowers of War, recreated WWII China, this could be an opportunity for the director to exercise some of his visual flair as seen in his crowd-pleasing wuxia films. [Variety]