According to Chinese tradition, if someone picks up a red envelope left on the ground by family members of a deceased person, that someone has to go marry the dead person via a “ghost marriage” or suffer a lifetime of misfortune. That idea kicks off “Marry My Dead Body,” a comedy-action-thriller from Taiwan in which a cop (played by Greg Hsu) unintentionally summons the ghost of Mao Mao (Austin Lin) and must marry him.
“In our movie, a macho, straight police officer picks up the red envelope and has to marry a gay ghost,” director Wei-Hao Cheng explained during a discussion with TheWrap’s Joe McGovern that was part of TheWrap Screening Series.
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