Article: Quartet wooed by epic.(Chow Yun-Fat, Ken Watanabe, Tony Leung Chiu-Wai and Lin Chi-Ling cast in The Battle of Red Cliff)(Brief article)

John Woo has cast Chow Yun-Fat, Ken Watanabe, Tony Leung Chiu-Wai and Taiwanese supermodel Lin Chi-Ling in his Chinese costumer "The Battle of Red Cliff," a co-production with the China Film Group.

Based on the classic Chinese novel "Romance Of the Three Kingdoms," pic is set in the final days of the Han Dynasty in the year 208 and covers the war that established the Three Kingdoms period, when China had three rulers.

Historians reckon 1 million soldiers took part in the original battle of Red Cliff. Woo plans to set up six units to simultaneously shoot various scenes for the war epic.

Woo is again teaming with longtime associate Terence Chang ...

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