Li Bingbing Starring in Arachnid Creature Feature Nest
One of China’s hottest actresses, Li Bingbing has made a mark here in America with appearances in films like Resident Evil: Retribution and Transformers: Age of Extinction, and up next she battles man-eating spiders in creature feature Nest. Read on for details!
Per Variety, Bingbing has signed on to star in the English-language sci-fi actioner being directed by Kimble Rendall (Bait). Li will also be a producer on the Chinese-Australian co-production, which is being represented by Darclight, the genre films offshoot of Arclight Films.
Pre-production ahead of a shoot in 3D is under way in Australia’s Gold Coast, and Darclight is pitching the film to distributors at the Toronto Film Festival.
The story involves a team of scientists who, while making the discovery of the century, lose a colleague in an ancient labyrinth. The group must battle their way through a swarm of deadly, man-eating funnel web spiders and discover the secret behind the insects’ power and unusual intelligence.
Nest is understood to be the largest Chinese-Australian co-production to date.
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