Hollywood to make a sci-fi version of Wu Zetian movie: Driving a mecha to achieve Chinese hegemony

Recently, according to foreign media Variety, the best-selling novel "Iron Widow" by Canadian Chinese writer Zhao Xiran will be made into a movie by Hollywood. Picturestart Media has obtained the adaptation rights and hopes to make it into an IP series. JC Lee will write the script.

The Iron Widow combines Chinese history and sci-fi mechas, telling the story of a sci-fi version of Wu Zetian, who drove a giant mecha to achieve Chinese hegemony. In a fictional world called Huaxia, humans encounter alien invasions, and the only hope for resistance is giant transformable robots called "Chrysalises". Each robot requires a pair of men and women to team up to drive, but the status of men and women is unequal, and the mortality rate of female drivers on the battlefield is very high because they have to supply their vitality to male drivers.

At the age of 18, Zetian volunteered to become a "disposable female concubine pilot" in order to assassinate the male ace pilot who caused the death of her sister. Zetian succeeded in revenge in a way no one expected, killing the man through the mental connection between the pilots and emerging from the cockpit unscathed. She was labeled the Black Widow and became a feared female pilot. She then partnered with Li Shimin, the strongest and most controversial male pilot in China. After tasting the taste of power, she would not back down easily.

Zetian will not miss any opportunity to use their strength and reputation to survive fierce battle after fierce battle, until she figured out why the mecha system works in a misogynistic way and prevents more girls from being sacrificed. Although Zetian is considered a 'threat' by the authorities, she may actually be the world's only savior.

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