Alrighty. After a month of whispering corridors and fan buzz, the Chinese newspapers have officially announced that the cast has been set for upcoming mega-budget period film Tong Que Tai (铜雀台) starring Chow Yun-fat as the elder Cao Cao, J-actor Tamaki Hiroshi as military official Mu Shun, Alec Su as Liu Xie (referred to in history as Han Xian Di or the Emperor Han Xian), and Yoon Eun Hye as Ling Ju, the daughter of Lu Bu and his wife (the one that is not the lovelorn Diao Chan). Filming is scheduled to begin in early October in Beijing, scheduled for a tentative 100 day shoot, reportedly with over one-third of the movie consisting of battle scenes.
The story is purely fiction and stems from the scriptwriter reading about how famed general Cao Cao’s tomb was unearthed in 2009 at the location of Tong Que Tai (铜雀台) in Anyang Province. Inside the tomb they found the remains of an unidentified twenty-something female. The scriptwriter decided to show how the later day Cao Cao turned from a ruthless politician seeking to unify China and became an old man trying to achieve a cessation to all the fighting. That’s all the synopsis we have for now.
Supposedly a slew of recognizable Chinese stars have been touted to make a cameo appearance, and the director of photography will be famed director Zhang Yimou’s longtime collaborator, who held the cameras behind Hero and House of Flying Daggers. The movie is tentatively scheduled to premiere in October of 2012. This movie is the definition of a pan-Asia collaboration, with the director from China, lead actress Eun Hye from Korea, lead actor Chow Yun-fat from Hong Kong, and the two young male leads Hiroshi is from Japan and Alec is from Taiwan. I’ll be keeping a close eye on production, and am dying to see Eun Hye in Chinese period costume.
[Credit: Sina news]
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Oooo neat! A collab :)
Gawd! I love this. Like you captain I'd like to see YEH in periodic film and costume. This will be her media to showcase herself as a thespian.
Thanks captain for the confirmation. ;-)
I'm a HWANHYE shipper all the way.
WOW! Really looking forward to this now :3
OMG SOOOO EXCITED!!!
She will be lovely in period Chinese costume :) Go YEH! And the always wonderful CYF. I really miss the days of those crazy random HK movies he used to do. He really cracked me up so much. But he's just amazing in period pieces.
Yay something not from the Qing Dynasty. :) Hehe... as much as I love the half bald hair styles and long braided hair. Alec - haven't seen any of his works in a long time - he was my tw idol back then.
Looking forward to seeing this. I know it will be good.
Wow!!!! ^^ super excited to see this, YEH in Chinese drab! hahahah I wonder how they will do this, can YEH speak Chinese? anyway.. I looooove to see her in traditional dress, go Unni!!! ^^
I've always wondered how films/dramas with stars of different countries do this too. Do they usually dub? Actually learn the language?
As far as I know, they usually dub. Sometimes the actor/actress will actually learn their lines in Chinese, usually phonetically, or they might speak Chinese to begin with, but even then it's usually dubbed over by a C voice actor. It's a little weird (see the Twdrama My Lucky Star), but you get used to it if the story's good. Unless the language barrier is actually written into the story, in which case they don't dub and let the language be awkward.
Finally a confirmation. YEH fighting!
Thx koala....omo...awesome....i'm so excited.....YEH in historical movie..n with CYF, AS n TH.....
Way to Go Eun Hye!!! This will be the biggest break for her, it will surely showcase her versatility as an artist. I hope this will open new doors for wuri YEH. With a good material combine with YEH's passion in her craft, I know she will do well regardless of what project she indulge herself in. I wish her good luck to her new movie.
Finally....hahaha...so happy for YEH...can't wait!!!