Elisa Lam's mysterious death to become horror movie  

华裔女生蓝可儿离奇命案将拍成鬼片 网友炮轰低级

据美国《世界日报》报道，2013年2月发生在洛杉矶的加拿大华裔女生蓝可儿(Elisa Lam)离奇命案，早先已引起中国和香港电影界兴趣，现在好莱坞也跟进，索尼影业公司(Sony Pictures)旗下的制片团队已买下写好的剧本。由于剧本属于“鬼片”，引起网友炮轰“低级”。[查看全文]

(ECNS) – A horror movie based on the mysterious death of Chinese Canadian Elisa Lam is to be made by Sony Pictures, according to the US-based Chinese newspaper World Journal.

The project is based on a screenplay titled "The Bringing" written by Brandon Murphy and Phillip Murphy, involving a plot that has a private detective looking into homicides at the Cecil Hotel after Elisa Lam's death.

Lam, a 21-year-old Canadian tourist, mysteriously disappeared from the Cecil Hotel in Los Angeles and was found dead in a rooftop tank of the hotel on Feb 21, 2013, three weeks after she was reported missing. The case is still unsolved.

The project has sparked outrage among netizens. A Web user said the company was too eager to make a profit off a girl who has been dead only one year. And another commented that the company had no right to exploit the girl's death with a supernatural scary movie and her parents should sue.

It's not the first movie getting inspiration from Lam's death. Last August, Chinese director Liu Hao said he would make a horror movie that might have some plot elements similar to Lam's death. He even stayed at the Cecil Hotel for several days to collect clues and material. And Hong Kong director and actor Nick Cheung added "ghost incident in the elevator" to his upcoming movie.