Source: Variety

Kate Hudson and Ken Watanabe are set to star in Bruce Beresford's A DREAM OF RED MANSIONS, reports Variety.

Inspired by a true story, it's an epic romance set against the backdrop of the Chinese Revolution in 1949. Hudson plays an American photojournalist who falls for an idealistic revolutionary (Watanabe).

Production is scheduled to start in October in Taiwan and the U.K. Script is by Donald Martin.