Not a genre movie, but who can resist John Woo’s return to Asia – and, if reviews and Chinese box office are to be believed, to form. New US poster art was released today for Red Cliff, Woo’s Han Dynasty epic, and it’s gorgeous – befitting the most expensive film ever made in China (at US$80M), and the most successful film ever released there, beating the record set by Titanic (the world take so far is in the region of US$240M).
It’s worth noting however, that the original Chinese poster was not so well received, thanks to some eagle eyed blogger spotting a distinctive similarity between a portion of it, and a scene from Zack Snyder's film 300. That story is told in full at observers.france24.com.
Red Cliff is released here in November, and the UK trailer can be viewed here, as ever, click on the images to see them in all their glory.
New US poster
The US “Coming Soon” poster
An alternate Chinese poster, with the offending tree now on the left hand side.
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