HONG KONG: Financial backing for director John Woo's new Chinese epic has not been affected by the pullout of Cannes best actor winner Tony Leung Chiu-wai, Woo's business partner said Thursday.
Woo's US$80 million (€60.2 million) movie "Red Cliff" hit a snag earlier when Leung, one of Hong Kong's biggest stars, dropped out.
But producer Terence Chang said Leung has been replaced by another prominent actor, Taiwanese-Japanese heartthrob Takeshi Kaneshiro, and that the movie's investors are not rattled by the casting change.
