jeon jihyun (and zhang ziyi) drop out of snow flower

[hoyah.livejournal.com]

Directed by Wayne Wang, filming for the English movie, Snow Flower and the Secret Fan, which is an adaptation of the bestselling Chinese novel by Lisa See, was slated to begin earlier this month but was repeatedly delayed. A few days ago, the media released news that Chinese actress Zhang Ziyi, the movie producer and lead actress of this film has decided to drop out from the production.

Apart from that, Korean actress Jeon Ji-hyun, who was supposed to take on the role of Lily in the movie, has decided to back out from the film following Zhang's decision to dropout. Zhang's manager has confirmed the news and cited that "she is too busy filming Wong Kar Wai's upcoming movie, The Grand Master" and is "unable to account for her work schedule".

Previous rumours which stated that the male lead will be acted by one of the members from Taiwanese boyband F4, was also dispelled. The production team is currently urgently scouting for male actors from China, Japan and Korea to takeover said role.

Following Zhang's and Jeon's departure from the film, industry insiders believe that Hong Kong actress Shu Qi and Chinese artistes Li Bing Bing and Fan Bing Bing are the next likely candidates to takeover the two leading roles of Lily and Snow Flower.

SG News

Damn, I was looking forward to this movie.

Comments

[tokyoduchess.livejournal.com]

oh no, i was so excited about this when i heard zhang ziyi would be in it. and i really enjoyed the book. :(

[fingertrees.livejournal.com]

same here. the book was great plus with zhang ziyi in the movie, i was looking forward to it =/

[shadowfax.livejournal.com]

shame I wanted to see them two together but this is exciting too (: "she is too busy filming Wong Kar Wai's upcoming movie, The Grand Master"

[rikayla.livejournal.com]

wow that was fast.

(and lol, i thought this was posted at aiya at first, haha)

[fingertrees.livejournal.com]

shuqi?
shuqi doesnt belong to traditional movies i guess

[kellygreen.livejournal.com]

Crap, I didn't even know that they were making this into a movie! This book is gorgeous.

[dalpaengee.livejournal.com]

Wasn't Shu Qi the one who said she didn't want to do the nude scene or something? Or maybe that was someone else, I can't remember...

But CRY I was so excited. It sounded and good, and with both Zhang ZiYi and Jeon JiHyun on board it sounded even better. :(

Though something tells me Jihyun dropped out right after Zhang Ziyi because they might be afraid the movie won't get anymore big names? I'm guessing if they want her to make it big in Hollywood, the next movie they'll want her in is one where there are big names so people will go and see it. I'm not sure anyone really famous was in Blood so :\

[spunspider.livejournal.com]

Shame pickle. :( I'd be so ecstatic if Jeon Ji Hyun did a drama though, oprzoprz. I guess she's moving to bigger and better?

[hoyah.livejournal.com]

I'd love a drama, too.

[dominique-franc.livejournal.com]

aww that sucks.

[virgo288.livejournal.com]

awww damn shame!

[shopaholism.livejournal.com]

well shit... but I do like Shu Qi, Li Bing Bing, and Fan Bing Bing though, and I'm still quite interested in this movie.

[yumi-maki.livejournal.com]

Oh wow, I didn't know they were making this into a movie - I should tell my BFF! It was such a good book. It's too bad it's delayed but I'm not too keen on Zhang Ziyi's acting (no offense) so I just hope they get some great actresses for the parts.

[gunsandsmoke.livejournal.com]

i miss this fierce lady in my icon!! she needs to come out and grace korean television/movie screens with her flawless beauty~ again

[black-silver.livejournal.com]

[black-silver.livejournal.com]

but on a serious note, OOH didn't know Wong Kar Wai was doing something new!
hope it doesn't flop horribly like My Blueberry Nights did yay i'm excited :)

[where-wordsfail.livejournal.com]

lol personally i'm glad zzy dropped out....don't like her XD and i like fan bingbing :)

[cruel-disorder.livejournal.com]

Shu Qi ♥