Asian Movie News - Written by AdminHQ on Wednesday, January 27, 2010 3:45 - 1 Comment

Zhang Ziyi Quits Snow Flower And The Secret Fan

Tags: snow flower and the secret fan, wayne wang, zhang ziyi

Zhang Ziyi has reportedly quit both her roles as lead actress and producer for the upcoming Snow Flower And The Secret Fan. According to her publicist, Zhang left the project so that she can concentrate on her part in Wong Kar-wai’s up and coming martial arts drama, The Grand Master.

Meanwhile, South Korean star Jun Ji-Hyun, who was cast alongside Zhang, has also quit forcing the project to be indefinitely postponed. The producers are rumoured to be approaching other Chinese actresses, including Fan Bingbing, Li Bing Bing, Shu Qi and Gao Yuanyuan.

Snow Flower And The Secret Fan, an English-language film about a lifetime friendship between two women set in 19th century China, is adapted from Lisa See’s novel of the same name. The film is to be directed by Chinese-American filmmaker Wayne Wang, who also helmed ‘Maid in Manhattan‘.

Zhang’s resignation has roused suspicions that it might be an aftermath of a recent confrontation between the actress and a Beijing publication. The latter carried an article fabricating Zhang as “the third woman destroying another’s family.” The actress filed a suit in a Beijing court accusing the newspaper of defamation. The case was accepted but no further information has been released.

Zhang’s agent denies that it has anything to do with the case, saying, “She’s been very busy with Wong Kar-wai’s film… Although Ziyi won’t work with director Wayne Wang this time, they will have another project together in the near future”.

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fashionbug
Jan 31, 2010 5:55

As exposed by person who are close to Ziyi Zhang on China webiste, she has been actually dumped by another producer - Wendy Murdoch because that she couldn’t keep her words to give her part of investment on time. Wendy finally ran out of patience. The split between Zhang and her rich boyfirend made the situation worse. Plus recent scandals have definitely hit Ziyi hard and damage her ‘perfect’ image.

Ziyi Zhang has been drawn into a big scandal related donation of 2008 China earthquark at the moment in China. She organized and host a fund-raising party during Cannes movie festival. They have raised US$1,000,000 as she told China media. The donators included Roberta Armani (senior manager from Armani), Tamara Mellon (JImmy Choo boss), Guy (Madonna’s agent), Eric Mika, Thierry Fremaux (Founder of Cannes festival), Christian Jeune, Caroline Gruosi-Scheufele (Chopard CEO)…

After almost two years, this large of amount donation seems disappear mysteriously. Zhang claimed couple of days ago through her official website “most of (above) donators only did an oral promise at the moment. It has been difficult for me to chase those money! But I will continue making effort to get all money”.

Her statement was not so convincing, because there was a picture on the scene clearly showed cash and check were made into the donation box. Some of reporters contacted China red cross and other related official organizations of Sichuan post-disaster reconstruction. Nowhere confirmed that they have received the donation from Ziyi Zhang. Up to now, Ziyi hasn’t showed any evidence to the public where she transferred the money to…