The Battle of Red Cliff (film)
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| Red Cliff | |
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| Directed by | John Woo |
| Produced by | Terence Chang Daxing Zhang |
| Starring | Chow Yun-Fat Takeshi Kaneshiro Liu Ye Zhao Wei Chi-ling Lin |
| Cinematography | Gu Changwei |
| Distributed by | China Film Group Corporation Lion Rock Productions |
| Country | China |
| Budget | $36,000,000 (estimated) |
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Red Cliff (Chinese: 赤壁) is the highly anticipated John Woo film based on the events of Three Kingdoms period, specifically the Battle of Red Cliffs, as portrayed in historical novel Romance of the Three Kingdoms by Luo Guanzhong, one of the Four Great Classical Novels of Chinese literature. The movie will be filmed in Hebei, China and is expected to be released sometime in 2008, possibly being used to help promote the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing.
With an estimated budget of $36,000,000, it will be John Woo's most ambitious move yet, perhaps producing his magnum opus. Some critics are concerned that such a high profile production will be difficult for Woo considering it marks his return to Chinese filmmaking following a wave of American movies.
The main parts assigned so far are for Takeshi Kaneshiro to play as Zhuge Liang, the strategist and mastermind of the Kingdom of Shu, Chow Yun Fat to play as Zhou Yu, the strategist of the Kingdom of Wu, Chi-ling Lin to play as Xiao Qiao, the wife of Zhou Yu. Liu Ye will be Sun Quan. It is rumoured that Cao Cao, the ambitious leader of the Kingdom of Wei, who will not be portrayed as the villain as in the novel, will be played by the mainland actor Zhang Fengyi. In recent news, Zhao Wei is confirmed to take the role of Sun Shangxiang, Sun Quan's sister, and later Liu Bei's wife.[1]
In the initial stages of casting, Ken Watanabe was selected for the character Cao Cao. Questions have been raised by critics as to the casting of Ken Watanabe, a Japanese actor, in an ancient Chinese film.[citation needed] When questioned about it, John Woo admits to the inaccuracy but claims it shall not affect the outcome of the movie.[citation needed] However, Zhang Fengyi later replaced Ken Watanabe to play Cao Cao instead.
Taiwanese supermodel Chi-ling Lin is expected to be the major feature of this film, since this is the supermodel's first movie, and people expect her to follow the footsteps of Zhang Ziyi to gain international fame.
The role of Zhuge Liang was initially given to Tony Leung Chiu Wai, but due to scheduling conflicts, Takeshi Kaneshiro took the role instead.
[edit] External links
- The Battle of Red Cliff at the Internet Movie Database
- http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=16305
- http://english.cri.cn/3086/2007/02/09/63@194602.htm
- http://www.monkeypeaches.com/battleofredcliff.html
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