Fan Bingbing’s additional scenes have caused discontent
The preparations for “Yang Guifei” have been underway for a long time, with news released in 2009 that the story would be written by a famous Chinese and British screenwriter, and that a famous director would be sought to direct the film. The company’s investment background is Chinese and Japanese companies, with a total investment of 100 million yuan, directed by Korean director Guo Zailong and starring Fan Bingbing, Zun Long and Wang Lihong. According to the source: “Yang Guifei” was originally scheduled to shoot in November 2011 to March 2012, but due to actor schedule reasons, delayed until January 29, 2012 to start, the opening ceremony actor only Oguri Shun a person. The first few days of the opening, has been shooting the scene of Oguri Shun, shooting to the fourth day, Fan Bingbing asked to stop work to change the scene, after which additional scenes.”
Fan Bingbing allegedly added a lot of scenes to herself and also deleted a lot of actors, including Korean actor Wen Juwan, who was present at the Busan launch. The company has been able to cut a lot of scenes from Yang Guifei’s childhood, for example, Wen Juwan played Yang Guifei’s first love and the scene disappeared completely. The company is quite emotional because of this.
The conflict broke out when Guo Jairyong left the group
The conflict about the additional scenes gradually accumulated and director Guo Jairyong finally broke out. Guo Zailong allegedly left the crew alone on the afternoon of February 25, but no one knew about it, the source said: “That night also started normally, the investors and a few people from the crew went to the front of the monitor when the director, shot Zun Long’s make-up shots, that would know about the director leaving. That day Fan Bingbing is also no longer in the crew, and Wang Lihong has not yet entered the group.”
It is rumored that Guo Zailong had a disagreement with Zunlong a long time ago, and there was some disagreement with the film crew, and also dissatisfied with Fan Bingbing’s extra scenes, so various reasons led to Guo Zailong’s departure, “Guo Zailong resigned this time, and should not come back, the Korean staff almost all withdrew. Tian Zhuangzhuang entered the crew last week and began to talk about taking over, but it has not been decided yet”. Guo Jairyong has now returned to South Korea, and he responded briefly to the matter through his assistant: “I’m in a state of anger, and I don’t want to say much about it, but Fan Bingbing did make some noise, and I’m disappointed in the Chinese film system (system).” Regarding Guo Zailong’s director’s remuneration, Chunqiu Hong said he has already paid the portion stipulated in the contract.