Appealing to director Ang Lee to make a movie adapted from the 2012 cli-fi novel ''FLIGHT BEHAVIOR'' by Barbara Kingsolver

                       FLIGHT BEHAVIOR
Appealing to director Ang Lee to make a movie adapted from the 2012 cli-fi novel ''FLIGHT BEHAVIOR'' by Barbara Kingsolver

American actor Will Smith recently paid tribute Taipei, Taiwan -- in the home country of Hollywood director Ang Lee who was born and raised here until he was 22 -- as the place that fulfilled his lifelong wish to work with Taiwan-born and Oscar-winning film director Ang Lee (李安). Yes, Smith put out an appeal to Lee and Lee got the message eventually through the media.

“Ang Lee has been on my list for most of my adult life [as] someone that I wanted to work with. So Taipei made the dream come true,” Smith told reporters in Taiwan recently while promoting his new Lee-directed action thriller Gemini Man.

Smith was referring to the time he expressed his desire to work with Lee at a press conference in Taipei 6 years ago, which was held to promote his 2013 action adventure movie After Earth.
Smith also asked people worldwide who heard about his appeal to Lee to tell the Taiwanese-American director of his desire to someday collaborate with him.

Those wishes were finally fulfilled through their work together on Gemini Man, and Smith said the new slogan for Taiwan’s capital should be “Taipei, the place where dreams come true!”

In response, Lee said, “Yeah, I heard the mating call.”

“I was in New York, but it was all over the media and all over the newspapers and I hoped that I would fulfill his dream because the dream was bilateral,” Lee said.

[At a press conference during a previous visit to Taiwan to promote his 2013 film, "After Earth," Smith had expressed his wish to work on a film with Lee and asked his contacts to inform the Taiwanese director. Six years later, Smith on  triumphantly declared, "Ang Lee has been on my list for most of my adult life [as] someone that I wanted to work with. So Taipei made the dream come true," reported CNA.]

Lee described Smith as a very talented actor.

Smith returned the praise.

“What makes a great director great in terms of actors is that they know how to push the buttons and flip the emotional switches inside of you,” Smith said.

[ So Lee would be the perfect director to turn FLIGHT BEHAVIOR into a Hollywood movie.]

So as this blog post goes to press, here and on Twitter, I have issued a public appeal from my home in Taiwan to ask Director Lee to adapt the cli-fi novel titled FLIGHT BEHAVIOR published to global acclaim in 2012 into a Hollywood movie, helmed by Lee with a screenplay by Lee and a stellar cast chosen by Lee.

If you are reading this on Twitter or Facebook or this blog or in a newspaper, please take a moment to boost this appeal to Ang Lee to even more people around the world, getting a message to Lee: "Can you make a movie about FLIGHT BEHAVIOR after you adapt the novel and buy the film rights and choose a cast to star in the movie version of the acclaimed climate-themed novel?"

Dear Readers of the blog post and its twitter link: Please retweet this tweet you saw on Twitter and use the hashtags #AngLee and #FlightBehavior on Twitter to tro reach Lee with this appeal. It's 2019. If we are successful with this appeal and it reached the ears and eyes of Director Lee soon, it is possible that his movie version of FLIGHT BEHAVIOR could appear in world cinemas sometime in the mid to late 2020s or early 2030s.