Remakes? They hold no interest for award-winning Chinese director Zhang Yimou.

And yet here he comes with “A Woman, A Gun and a Noodle Shop,” his remake of the Coen brothers’ 1985 debut feature, “Blood Simple.”

“At the time I was looking for material for my next film, there were no good screenplays,” Zhang, 59, says through a translator in a telephone interview. “As a principal, I like to avoid remakes. But when it comes to a situation where I couldn’t find a script I liked, then I turned to the possibility of a remake.” (More…)