Taiwan-based Screenworks Asia is utilizing the Cannes Market to launch worldwide rights gross sales on “Misplaced in Perfection.” The movie, beforehand titled “Love is a Bitch,” is a female-led psychological thriller that marks the live-action debut of Sung Hsin-ying, who’s already established as an award-winning animation director.
The story follows a TV anchor, performed by Shao Yu-Wei, whose apparently excellent life unravels when she discovers that her father could have turn out to be the sufferer of a romance rip-off. To make issues worse, the scammer is accused of murdering males she dated. In an try to guard her household, the girl companions with the native prosecutor to research the crime. But, she rapidly finds herself misplaced within the twists and turns whereas uncovering the reality.
Sung has a background in journalism and wrote her authentic screenplay impressed by factual studies about Kijima Kanae, a Japanese fraudster and serial killer.
She additionally beforehand directed “On Happiness Highway,” which gained the very best animated function prize on the 2017 Golden Horse Movie Awards and performed within the Large Angle part on the Busan movie competition.
The movie’s previously-announced forged is headed by Shao Yu-Wei (“Greater than Blue: The Collection”), together with Lin Mei-Hsiu (“Zone Professional Web site”) because the homicide suspect, and Rhydian Vaughan (“Monga”) enjoying the native prosecutor.
The manufacturing additionally includes an skilled staff together with Chen Chi-Wen (“Marry My Lifeless Physique”) as director of images and Lee Cin Cin (“Paradise in Service”) because the music composer.
At present in post-production, “Misplaced in Perfection” is predicted to launch in the direction of the top of 2023.
Screenworks Asia is a three way partnership between Taiwan-based streaming platform Catchplay and Taiwan Inventive Content material Company, that operates within the manufacturing area. Its remit is to provide premium films, sequence, mini-series and factual leisure from Taiwan with a global viewers in thoughts. It really works throughout genres together with romantic comedy, suspense crime thriller and sci-fi catastrophe from Taiwan concentrating on worldwide audiences.
Its current initiatives embrace 2021 household comedy “The Making of an Abnormal Lady II,” which gained the particular award for international drama on the Worldwide Drama Competition in Tokyo; selection present “Dee’s Speak”; and Hou Hsiao-Hsien’s first government produced sequence, “Twisted Strings,” which premiered in March 2022.
