"The War of the Red Cliff," Hong Kong director John Woo's latest historical war epic, is set to premiere July 10. The first movie in the two-part series will open on the Chinese mainland and in Hong Kong and Taiwan. Production of the second movie is expected to wind up within the year, and is tentatively scheduled for a December release.
In May, John Woo and the cast, which includes Tony Leung, Chang Chen
and Taiwanese supermodel Lin Chi-Ling, will go to the 61st Cannes Film
Festival to promote the films. "The War of the Red Cliff" is based on the war of the same name
during the Three Kingdoms period (220-280 BC), when China had three
rulers.
The War of the Red Cliff
