The Weinstein Co. has locked in Gong Li and is negotiating with John Cusack to star in "
Shanghai," a period drama the studio hopes to make in China early next year.
Cusack is in talks to play an American who returns to a corrupt, Japanese-occupied
Shanghai four months before Pearl Harbor and discovers his friend has been killed. While he unravels the mysteries of the death, he falls in love and discovers a much larger secret that his own government is hiding.