Via CMR I read this:
This looks pretty interesting. MTV reports:
Bale will headline “Nanjing Heroes,” a period drama about the Massacre of Nanjing, also known as the”Rape of Nanking, from award-winning Chinese
filmmaker Zhang Youmi [Zhang Yimou] (“Hero,” “Raise the Red Lantern”)… [If you haven’t seen his films…. see them. You could do worse than to start with The Road Home, a gorgeous film about tradition and continuity.]
In the film, Bale will play an American Catholic priest who shelters a group of prostitutes and female students in his church during the Massacre of Nanking, a 1937 invasion in which Japanese soldiers stormed China’s then-capital and murdered and raped thousands of Chinese citizens.
Based on Yan Geling’s novel “The 13 Women of Nanjing,” the film will begin shooting in China in January, with roughly 40 percent of the dialogue spoken in English and the rest in Mandarin.
