It’s been nearly 20 years since Tom Tykwer‘s heart-pounding “Run Lola Run” took the film scene by storm, culminating in an audience award at the 1999 Sundance Film Festival and a slew of trophies at 1999’s German Film Awards — including Outstanding Feature Film, Best Direction, and German Film of the Year. And now, in a move that seems destined to coincide with the film’s 20th anniversary, Chinese production company Road Pictures has announced that they’ve secured the rights to the film and plan to make a Mandarin-language remake of the film.

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There’s apparently a whole lot of adapting going on, as Tykwer told Film School Rejects that he’s also working on an adaptation of McSweeney’s founder David Eggers’ “What is the What: The Autobiography of Valentino Achek Deng.” Egger’s novel is a fictionalized account based on the real life of one of the Lost Boys of the Sudan, and the novel’s title sounds like a dope hip-hop album.

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