"Three Kingdoms" Cast Begin Shooting
2008-09-29 21:34:31 CRIENGLISH.com
The historical epic "Three Kingdoms" announced the start of their filming at a press conference on September 28, 2008. [Photo: ent.sina.com]
The ancient Chinese epic "Three Kingdoms", a new TV series version, began shooting in Zhuozhou city, in north China's Hebei province on September 29th, Beijing Morning Post reports.
The play's protagonists starring Peter Ho and Lu Xiaohe and Ringo Yu attended a press conference on Sunday.
There was widespread rumor that stars Deng Chao and Huang Xiaoming may land important roles in the play. Director Gao Xixi said he had talked with the actors who said they would have liked to act for him, but were tied up with busy schedules.
The filming of this TV drama will take at least a year during which the cast is not allowed to shoot other films.
Moreover, actors need to shave their hair and go bald at the beginning of the play. This was difficult for many actors to do since many of them had advertising deals that demand a certain look, the director disclosed.
The TV series will be shot based on the history of the Three Kingdoms period (220-280) in ancient China, the paper reports.
Director Gao also spoke about the challenge of filming a fight scene involving 56,000 actors.
In 1990, TV director and producer Zhang Jizhong produced the Chinese classic "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms" TV drama adapted from a classic Chinese novel with the same name by Luo Guanzhong at the end of Yuan Dynasty and early Ming Dynasty.
