The Oscar-winning actor Kevin Spacey is to become the biggest Hollywood star ever to appear in a Chinese film production. Spacey has signed on to take a leading role in the black comedy Inseparable as a mysterious American expat who befriends a troubled young Chinese man, Variety reports.

The Chinese film industry and Hollywood have co-financed movies starring the likes of Ed Norton, Willem Dafoe and Donald Sutherland, but Inseparable marks the first occasion where a wholly locally financed production has starred an actor of Spacey's renown.

The film will be shot in Mandarin and English. Daniel Wu will play the lead, with Beibi Gong as his wife, an investigative reporter. Dayyan Eng, a Beijing-based US national who shot the Chinese cult hit Waiting Alone, is directing from his own script. Shooting is planned to start later this month in the south of the country.

Spacey, who will also take an executive producer's role on Inseparable, is taking the plunge into an increasingly important movie market. China has a growing appetite for films, including Hollywood product. A quota system that allows only 20 foreign films into the country each year is currently frustrating US efforts to capitalise on demand. That system may not last however – the World Trade Organisation upheld a ruling last month that China is illegally restricting US music, film and book imports.
Source: http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/20...y-chinese-film

Kevin is currently in Guangzhou, China, making this movie.

Recent interview with Kevin on CNN: http://edition.cnn.com/2010/SHOWBIZ/...pacey.talkasia

The supporting cast includes Gan Lu Lu, Yan Ni, Peter Stormare, Kenneth Tsang, and Zhang Mo.
  
I'm very excited about this movie and Kevin breaking into the Chinese film market.