Rare Earth Media and Beijing-based Ray Production have partnered to make a movie about true-life Canadian doctor and Chinese cultural hero Norman Bethune, to be structured as a $30 million China-Canada co-production.
The film, to be unveiled at Filmart, will give the Bethune biopic a makeover. In Bethune, a 1977 Canadian TV movie, Donald Sutherland played the surgeon, who died from blood poisoning while treating wounded civilians and soldiers on a Chinese battlefield in 1939. The actor then took on the role of the legendary doctor again in Philip Borsos' 1990 feature Bethune: The Making of a Hero, which co-starred...
The film, to be unveiled at Filmart, will give the Bethune biopic a makeover. In Bethune, a 1977 Canadian TV movie, Donald Sutherland played the surgeon, who died from blood poisoning while treating wounded civilians and soldiers on a Chinese battlefield in 1939. The actor then took on the role of the legendary doctor again in Philip Borsos' 1990 feature Bethune: The Making of a Hero, which co-starred...
- 3/19/2018
- by Etan Vlessing
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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