Fan Bingbing Promotes Upcoming Film “Yang Gui Fei”
Fan Bingbing (范冰冰) officially opened up a Sina Weibo account on December 25. In her first post, she published a still from her upcoming movie, Yang Gui Fei <楊貴妃>, which recently wrapped up filming.
In the released still, Fan Bingbing is poised as the titular Yang Guifei, valiantly riding a white horse while dressed in a graceful period costume. In a following Weibo post, she announced that the cast had finished principal filming, and that both she and male lead Leon Lai (黎明) were already engaged in their next filming projects.
Yang Gui Fei, which will focus on the love story between Emperor Ming of Tang (Leon Lai) and the beautiful consort Yang Guifei (Fan Bingbing), was originally slated to begin production in 2011. However, it was soon mired in disputes, and the original Korean director Kwak Jae Yong (郭在容) ended up resigning after an ideological conflict with the producers.
Kwak was replaced with up-and-coming director Cheng Shiqing (程十慶), also known as Shi Qing (十慶), and previously worked as the screenwriter for Operation Across Borders <超國界行動> and Codename Cougar <代號美洲豹>. Shi Qing is known for establishing a scholarship at Renmin University of China, and is good friends with many Fifth Generation filmmakers, such as Zhang Yimou (張藝謀) and Tian Zhuangzhuang (田壯壯), both of whom helped with the directing of Yang Gui Fei.
Filming for Yang Gui Fei eventually restarted in September of this year. The delay, however, forced the crew to find a replacement for Taiwanese actor Rong Xiang (戎祥), who passed away on January 25.
Yang Gui Fei will feature appearances from Taiwanese actor/singer Wu Chun (吳尊), mainland Chinese actresses Joan Chen (陳沖) and Ning Jing (寧靜), and mainland Chinese actor Wu Gang (吳剛). Well-known cinematographer Hou Yong (侯詠), as well as Hong Kong art directors Huang Jianeng (黃家能) and Chung Yee Fung (鐘移風), will also join the crew.
Source: 21CN.com
This article is written by Joanna for JayneStars.com.
Isn’t she about 50 pounds too thin to play Yang Guifei?
Thin Yang Yuhuan, short Guan Yu, (very) ordinary looking Xiao Long Nu…….
Well Yang Gui Fei was not “fat” I guess but just had some meat on her. But yea, she is a bit thin to play Yang Gui Fei.
She wasn’t had some meat, she was full figured. If those statutes are accurate, she should be plump and fair.
That’s not what I heard but I guess you wonder if she was just chubby or just “fat”.
Plump = chubby but doesn’t necessarily means fat per se. She was full figured.
Oh ok if you say chubby then that makes more sense, since I do not think she was fat.
I don’t think anyone would want to watch a plump and chubby female lead?
How ignorant…..that’s NOT a cheongsam!
In the Chinese source, it says “范冰冰古装打扮，一袭飘逸长裙，骑着白马英姿飒爽。” ……… it means a long dress.
Yup. The meaning was lost in translation perhaps.
love the pic (but not fan bing bing) … combination of blue & white colour omg so pretty! + beautiful horse and the scenery
Her boobs in the pic remind me of The Curse of the Golden Flowers.
Tang Dynasty ladies wore modestly low cut dresses, but the cleavage was over-exaggerated in Curse of Golden Flowers.
Wondering if any real beauties in China entertainment industry now… They look too fake.
Fan Bing Bing is not that plastic or fake looking. She did have some work done, but not much since she still looks like herself since I saw her childhood photos. She looks like her real self. I have seen her mom too and they look alike so she did not have that much done.
haha yeah. but i think theres a least a few that a real lol
Seriously not interested to see a doll-alike acting.
lol all male doll-alike acting get away with negatives
fan bing bing? meehh -_-
don’t like her
Same, don’t like or care about her. And again, one of the told too many time stories, wtb something new and refreshing and not another remake =_=
didn’t she already starred in a drama series as “yang gui fei”?
now a movie version?
although, she is a bit too skinny as the voluptuous concubine. I do love her in ancient Chinese costumes 🙂
Yea, she did which was why I was wondering about this movie version…
Why did they even get a Korean producer in the first place?
Seems like a trend to hire Korean actors, directors, production teams to work in China nowadays. The China market is huge and Koreans are jumping on board.
Nice picture of FBB. It looks like a painting.
is fan bing bing known to be chubby? she’s probably chosen b/c of that.
she gave herself the nickname of Fan Xiaopan
(little fatty)