Michelle Yeoh said she had been contacted for playing parts in both Mission: Impossible 3 and The Lecter Variation, the prequel for The Silence of the Lamb.

Yeoh is getting somewhat close to seal the deal with M:I3 and was unexpectedly contacted by the production of The Lecter Variation when she was in Cannes last week. According to an earlier report, her co star of Memoirs of Geisha, Gong Li was offered a role in The Lecter Variation but Yeoh said the producers would decide whom to cast after they did their test shots. This tells us one thing. Zhang Ziyi is a lucky charm to her co-stars.