The film is directed by John Woo and stars Tony Leung Chiu-Wai, Takeshi Kaneshiro, Zhang Fengyi, Chang Chen, Hu Jun, Lin Chi-ling and Zhao Wei. With an estimated budget of US$80 million, Red Cliff is the most expensive Asian-financed film to date.
John Woo’s epic Red Cliff recounts the Battle of Red Cliffs during the final days of the Han Dynasty.
For the past 4 years, I’ve been working at home creating an 85 minute animated CG movie. I was formerly the lead animator for Matrix Reloaded, and this is the trailer to my feature film directorial debut.
With the recent release of the Hard Boiled Ultimate Edition and the upcoming release of Stranglehold, it’s an excellent time to go over the important things we’ve learned from watching Hard Boiled. So many valuable life lessons and insights can be gained from John Woo’s tale of bullets, loyalty, honor, and more bullets.
Hammerspace (also malletspace) is a fan-envisioned extradimensional, instantly accessible storage area in fiction, which is used to explain how animated, comic and game characters can produce objects out of thin air.
It also explains how Megatron can shrink down to fit in Starscream’s hand and why you never have to reload in a John Woo movie.