[bubbles20]

these 2 movies are said to be in competition and are both currently in filming and will be released next year (2008).
like curse of the golden flower, 'The Battle of Red Cliff' and 'Three Kingdoms: Resurrection of the Dragon" wil be international movies and released worldwide

The Battle of Red Cliff (directed by John Woo)

TRIVIA:
- Tony Leung orignally was given the role of Zhuge Liang but left, later returning as Zhou Yu
- Chow Yun Fat orignally was given the role of Zhou Yu but left, later returning as Huang Gai


Tony Leung as General Zhou Yu



Takeshi Kaneshiro as military strategist Zhuge Liang



Chow Yun Fat as General Huang Gai



Chiling Lin as Xiao Qiao, wife of General Zhou Yu



Zhao Wei as Sun Shangxiang



Chen Chang as Sun Quan



The Battle of Red Cliff is the highly anticipated John Woo historic epic 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 early 2008, and will be used to help promote the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing.
The movie will be a co-production between China's state-owned China Film Group and Woo's Los Angeles-based Lion Rock Productions.

On the set (secretly taken photos: Takeshi as Zhuge Liang/i]




[i]"Red Cliff" Press Conference

John Woo, the director


The cast








On the set of the film
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creds: sina

Three Kingdoms: Resurrection of the Dragon (directed by Daniel Lee)

Andy Lau as Zhao Yun


Maggie Q as Cao Ying (Cao Cao's warrior daughter & Zhao Yun's love interest)


Sammo Hung as Zhang Fei


Vanness Wu as Guan Xing, the eldest son of Guan Yu


This epic feature is based on Romance of the Three Kingdoms, a vast 600-year-old novel by Luo Guangzhong which ranks as one of China's four most important pieces of literature.

His country torn asunder by civil war, Zhao, a common man heeds the call of duty and from the humblest of roots rises through the ranks on wings of courage and cunning to command an army charged with liberating the land from an evil warlord.

Inspiring by action, honor and a dream of unifying his divided nation, Zhao's heroism becomes legend, but as the years pass and the throne changes hands the war still rages on. When a newly enthroned king decides peace can only be achieved by defeating the warlords once and for all, the ageing Zhao embarks on his final and greatest campaign, a road to adventure that will crown his name in glory for all time.

The THREE KINGDOMS starring Andy Lau, Sammo Hung and Maggie Q brings to life a towering six hundred year old epic renowned as one of the greatest classical novels of Chinese literature, in all its' staggering scale and splendor.

On set: Maggie Q as Cao Ying


(alot of people are saying Maggie looks far too Western/white to play a Chinese)

[Chiperaholic]

Both look GOOD! It's really hard to choose between the two.

[kaboom]

B/c I played DYNASTY WARRIORSS, I actually recognized those name~~ lololol

[gl0rious]

HAHAHA...first one's going to pwn. THere's just more big names (names that actually appeal to the general Chinese audience). I think Maggie Q is a far cry from what Cao Ying actually looked like. She kind of looks like a vampire in the picture... -__-''

LOL Takeshi as Zhu ge liang. You know you've aged in the public mind when they no longer cast you as the young hero in a given movie. This'll be very very interesting.

Good to see Chow young fat back on the cast. Pretty pic of Zhao wei and Chiling.

[ilovetakeshi]

Takeshi really does look like Zhuge Liang! I'm very excited! He looks intelligent lol.
I'm definately going to watch Battle of Red Cliff (Tony Leung is one of my favorite actors too) and probably download Three Kingdoms: Resurrection of the Dragon (gay name btw).

Maggie Q does NOT look Chinese at all...it's going to be very hard for me to watch the film if I'm not convinced with the characters...

[strawberrynkiwi]

The Battle of Red ClifF sounds better. The cast seems better too. I don't personally think Leon and Maggie Q are amazing actor/actree. Meanwhile, Tony Leung is amazing and looks so handsome for someone that is old enough to be my dad. To add to that, having Takeshi Kaneshiro really doesn't hurt.

[bubbles20]

well yeah okay i admit Maggie isn't a fantastic actor but i'm pretty sure that since shes in hollywood now, they wanted to cast her

[MqN]

I find a lot of people opposing to Maggie Q casting as Cao Ying becuase she's not chinese. I find it almost insulting because Zhang Ziyi was casted as Sayuri when her looks completely differ from the Japanese image and she didn't get half the nasty comments thrown at her like Maggie Q. Just something I've been meaning to get off of my chest.

Anyhow, I'll wait for both to come out and see if they live up to the hype. The ZhiLing lady looks good with her eyes closed. LOL.

[Bi=Oh]

where's jet li? i thought he ws suppsoed to be in the movie?

[ilovetakeshi]

I find a lot of people opposing to Maggie Q casting as Cao Ying becuase she's not chinese. I find it almost insulting because Zhang Ziyi was casted as Sayuri when her looks completely differ from the Japanese image and she didn't get half the nasty comments thrown at her like Maggie Q. Just something I've been meaning to get off of my chest.

Ziyi got alot of bad press from the Chinese media actually. I don't think Maggie got any bad press for being cast in this movie.

Anyway, I forgot to add that the director John Woo is also much better than Daniel Lee (for 3 kingdoms).

[bubbles20]

where's jet li? i thought he ws suppsoed to be in the movie?

umm wrong movie....i think you're talking about The Forbidden Kingdom (with Jackie Chan, Liu Yifei).

Ziyi got alot of bad press from the Chinese media actually. I don't think Maggie got any bad press for being cast in this movie.

thats true, zhang ziyi got alot of sh*t from the media while maggie is only getting sh*t from members on forums (as far as i can see), nothing frm the media (which is ironic because at least zhang ziyi is full asian while maggie is half white) although i like maggie more than zhang ziyi haha

[lovefool]

WHO IS THIS Chen Chang GUY? HE IS MAD HOT!!!!!!!!! i need more pics of him and info!

[bubbles20]

google is your friend - i want to stay on topic

[Bi=Oh]

umm wrong movie....i think you're talking about The Forbidden Kingdom (with Jackie Chan, Liu Yifei).
thats true, zhang ziyi got alot of sh*t from the media while maggie is only getting sh*t from members on forums (as far as i can see), nothing frm the media (which is ironic because at least zhang ziyi is full asian while maggie is half white) although i like maggie more than zhang ziyi haha

are u sure, im pretyt sure i saw him with andy lau, takeshi togheter for that movie. .. oh wells

[bubbles20]

are u sure, im pretyt sure i saw him with andy lau, takeshi togheter for that movie. .. oh wells

thats another movie -its called The Warlords

[<3LeeDongWook]

OHHH EMM GEE! This is great! I love these ancient chinese dramas with warriors.

[cutysweety]

wow! the battle of the red cliff has an amazing cast!!! im definitely looking forward to this in 2008!

[Tonyc402]

I like the cast members for the Battle of The Red Cliff better then 3 Kingdoms. I dont really like Maggie Q but Andy owns! Can't wait to see these movies

[huangmeixi]

I just don't get how Tony Leung is supposed to play Zhou Yu since he's old and Zhou Yu is young, whereas Takeshi is playing someone who is actually supposed to be old. Can't they reverse it? Then it'd be perfect. I'm sick of Tony and his shortness and taking up every single good role.

[precious4e]

OMG I haven't seen Leon Lai in action in ages lol

but based on the actors i'm more inclined to see Red Cliff
Tony Leung, Takeshi Kaneshiro, and Zhao Wei are some of my favorite actors/actresses in Asia!

But really there are so many historical epic movies coming out.
I'm kinda missing the old light hearted comedies HK used to put out (with these actors in them!!)......those were the days lol.