It wasn’t that long ago that Chow Yun Fat vacated the lead role in John Woo’s massively expensive Mainland Chinese epic movie “The Battle of Red Cliff”, Tony Leung, who left the movie himself earlier, has now returned to assume Fat’s role. Say what? No, really. Variety says, “Leung dropped out of the film in March when he was skedded to play a different character. At the time, he said he felt unable to commit to the six-month shoot that the pic entails. He was replaced by Takeshi Kaneshiro.” So basically Leung left, was replaced by Takeshi Kaneshiro, then Fat left, and now Leung is back, but playing Fat’s role, while Kaneshiro still has his original role. Ooooh boy. I just hope all of this moving around doesn’t damage the film.
“Okay, Tony, when I say ‘action’, you should — wait, which part are you playing again?”
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