John Woo must be suღffering from w🐼hiplash. One minute Tony Leung ditches his epic war movie The Battle Of Red Cliff, because he couldn’t commit to the gruelling six-month shooting stint due to schedule clashes.

Then only this week, Woo loses pal and star Chow Yun-Fat after a clash of interests (we’re still trying to work out the exact 💞reason behin꧅d that one).

While Leung had been replaced by actor Takeshi Kaneshiro, it’s eꦛntirely possible that he’ll now step into the vacant lead role. Whatever happens, Chang seems convinced that these casting blips won’t affect the film’s schedule. "Nothing is affected because we have so many characters in the sto🗹ry and it's so complicated,” he explained. “One actor will not affect the production."

We’♔ll say this – there’d better be a hell of a Making Of featurette on the eventual DVD...

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