SPAGHETTI VS. NOODLE story in Variety

Congratulations to ScreenplayLab member Michael Yuen!

Michael Yuen has attached Chinese action director Yuen Wo-ping and Paramount-affiliated producer Dede Nickerson to his screenplay SPAGHETTI VS. NOODLE as a $20 million action comedy with Taewon Entertainment, a South Korean company that recently raised $50M. The picture will lense for two weeks in San Francisco before completing production in China. Yuen Wo-ping is known in the U.S. for directing Uma Thurman in the action scenes in KILL BILL and for his work on THE MATRIX. More in Variety:

http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117965380.html

SPAGHETTI VS. NOODLE is Michael Yuen's first screenplay. You may remember this screenplay from when ScreenplayLab presented it at a workshop on June 4th, 2006. This romantic comedy asks the question, who had pasta first, the Italians or the Chinese?

"That first reading at ScreenplayLab was really, really helpful," says Yuen. "I found out where people laughed at the comedy, and cut the rest." Yuen said it also helped him test and hone his one-sentence pitch, and that lead to him winning the Sundance Producers Lab pitch contest. "Sundance opened a lot of doors for me," says Yuen. "After winning that I could call any producer in town and get my script read."

Yuen traveled to Sundance, Cannes, Hong Kong, and Beijing, seeking support for his film. "I may move to Beijing to produce Chinese films," says Yuen, who is bi-lingual in Chinese and English.

Way to go Michael! See you at ScreenplayLab.