It looks like hottie Michelle Yeoh is the hottest thing going right now for big budget event movies. You might remember her from TOMORROW NEVER DIES, but while she was in Cannes she was approached to star in both MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE 3… and YOUNG HANNIBAL, the prequel to the Hannibal Lecter series.
YOUNG HANNIBAL is also set to star the beautiful Gong Li, although now it’s somewhat up in the air as to who Yeoh would be playing in the story that centers around the transformation of a normal Hannibal to the flesh eating doctor we all know and love.
While she wants to do both films (she’d be stupid if she wasn’t), the filming schedules are somewhat conficting… so we’ll see which one she ends up being in (