MUMBAI: China‘s commercial director, Feng Xiaogang, has said that his upcoming film would be set against the 1942 drought that killed three million of his Chinese brethren.

He announced that he will adapt Liu Zhenyun‘s 1993 novel ‘Remembering 1942’ that examines the suffering in China‘s Henan province when the then-ruling Nationalist Party was pre-occupied with a Japanese invasion.

Right now Feng is designing the sets of the film and is looking for a summer 2012 release of his yet unnamed film.

Chinese studio Huayi Brothers will invest 150 million Chinese yuan ($23 million) in the project. Feng released another disaster drama last year. The earthquake epic Aftershock brought in 673 million yuan ($103 million).