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http://www.express.co.uk/entertainment/films/494945/Filmmakers-to-turn-Terracotta-Warriors-into-Hollywood-super-heroes
Filmmakers join forces to turn Terracotta Warriors into Hollywood super heroes
FILMMAKERS from Britain, America and China are joining forces to create one of the biggest blockbusters in cinema history, based on the ancient Terracotta Warriors.
The warriors are expected to rise from the grave in the Far East to rival Hollywood comic heroes such as Iron Man and Spider-Man.
In the first collaboration of its kind, all three countries will produce a superhero movie based on the 8,000 sculptures of soldiers which were buried in about 210BC and discovered by farmers at a city-size mausoleum in China’s Xi’an province in 1974.
The intricate and remarkably intact figures are believed to have been placed in the ground to protect first emperor Qin Shi Huang in the afterlife.
US giant Paramount and executives from Pinewood Studios, in Buckinghamshire, say the big-budget project, which will be called either Rise Of The Terracotta Warriors or Super Terracotta Warriors, could be the first of many films.
They have been in talks with Shanghai Film Group, whose president Ren Zhonglun confirmed: “A lot of projects have reached a *practical stage.
“In the last month of 2013 and the first month of this year, there have been people from Paramount and Marvel and Pinewood Studios *coming to talk to us.”
The blockbuster’s plot will see the *terracotta warriors come back to life in modern times to save the world from an alien invasion. It will be shot at Shanghai’s Chedun studio which technical experts from Pinewood will help to transform into what Mr Zhonglun describes as a “world class film city”.
