Tuesday, March 22, 2011

Director Chou withdraws from Jordan after scare of conflict

Source: Apple Daily

The UN yesterday sent air strikes to Libya, the Middle East, conflict is rising in Northern Africa, at present Jay Chou is filming the new movie "Against War" in Jordan, EMP who are responsible for filming have already decided to withdraw, yesterday Nicholas Tse was originally supposed to meet up with the crew in Jordan but this was cancelled, but director Dante Lam wanted to continue filming, both sides were pulling, Director Chou's company JVR yesterday stated: "We will follow the arrangements of the film company."

10 days ago they went to Jordan to start filming "Against War" starring Jay Chou and Nicholas Tse, but France, UK, US and other countries have already taken military action against Libya, Libya dictator Gaddafi announced he would make the whole "Mediterranean Zone" into a battle field, the filming of "Against War" has been affected, with the situation in the Mediterranean unclear, Nicholas Tse's trip to Jordan was cancelled yesterday, the crew returned to Hong Kong early, the other scenes will be switched to Malaysia.

EMP production manager Xuan Jia Zhen yesterday stated: "This movie begins filming in May, Dante Lam and Jay Chou went to Jordan to film promotional shots, Nic was originally going to participate, but due to the unrest in the Middle East, the company evaluated the situation and decided not to let Nic go to Jordan, at present the place is calm, there are other Western movies being filmed there."

Did Director Chou request to leave due to the situation in the Middle East? Yesterday JVR responded: "At present we are following the original schedule, for any change in plan we will follow the arrangements of the film company." Xuan Jia Zhen stated that Dante Lam hopes to stay in Jordan, at present there are about 10 people there, they are expected to return to Hong Kong next week, originally it was planned they would come back to Jordan in May, under more consideration, they might change to a safer location to film.