![]() ![]() Hidden Man was the third part of Jiang’s “Bullets” trilogy, which started with the action-packed Let the Bullets Fly and was followed by Gone With the Bullets. Now, Netflix is turning a fictional crime novel based on the murder, Midnight in Peking, into a full-blown series starring none other than Jiang Wen as the lead detective.Īt a time when Netflix is streaming more and more Chinese movies and TV shows, including sci-fi blockbuster Wandering Earth which was put up just last week, Midnight In Peking will be the streaming service’s first original series set in Mainland China - casting a Chinese actor-director as distinguished as Jiang Wen seems fitting for the occasion. ![]() ![]() The case, which actually happened at the time, was subsequently lost to the current of history, forever left unsolved. In the opening of Jiang Wen’s comedy action film Hidden Man, set in 1930s Beijing, police chief Zhu Qianlong tells surgeon Li Tianran of a disturbing case involving the murder of schoolgirl Pamela Warner, the British ambassador’s daughter. ![]() Hopefully that’s in the works though - we’d watch it. Netflix has now denied reports that it will turn Paul French‘s true crime novel Midnight in Peking into its first-ever China-set original series, or that it has tapped legendary Chinese actor-director Jiang Wen to star. Update: Seems someone jumped the gun and got us all excited without due cause. ![]()
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