‘The Wedding Banquet’ reimagines a ’90s queer classic
Leon Bennett/Getty ImagesThe new movie The Wedding Banquet may share a name with Ang Lee’s queer romantic comedy from the 1990s, but director Andrew Ahn says it isn’t a direct remake.“I think the term that we’ve landed on is ‘reimagining,’” Ahn tells ABC Audio.The original The Wedding Banquet tells the story of a gay man who stages an elaborate wedding to a woman in an effort to fool his traditional Taiwanese parents. Ahn says he wanted to preserve Lee’s “themes […]