Andy Lau and Maggie Q arrived at Incheon International Airport this afternoon looking less than fresh-faced. Andy Lau seems to know what to do by hiding behind super dark sunglasses, but poor Maggie could also use a pair of dark shades and a bigger (and less flowery) hat.
The Hong Kong stars are in Seoul to promote their new martial arts epic, “Three Kingdoms: Ressurection of the Dragon,” (200 
directed by Daniel Lee. The movie premiere will be held at Yongsan CGV theater on March 24th, 2008.
The film, Three Kingdoms: Ressurection of the Dragon, is based on “Romance of the Three Kingdoms” a 600-year-old novel by Luo Guangzhong is considered as one of China’s most important pieces of literature.
Three Kingdoms: Ressurection of the Dragon will be released in theaters across Asia (Korea, Singapore, China) on April 3rd, 2008.
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very interesting purple jacket..
andy is hip man…purple & vinyl? it’s like the same design of kimura takuya’s famous orange jacket on HERO. maggie looks like a man here. or tranny with clear skin.
isnt maggie q going out with daniel henney?
novel is absoutely amazing… but i ain’t looking forward to movie at all already after i’ve seen this trailer
maggie Q looks fine. andy lau is old. . .and yes, the trailer sucks balls
kick ass, i hope they enjoy there
I heard Chow Yun Fat is supposted to be in the mobie ._.
that is the ugliest jacket i ever seen… someone had to say it.
Agh, so it was Luo Guangzhong who wrote Romance of the Three Kingdoms?!! That means I just got that wrong on my Chinese Culture & Society midterm
I narrowed it down between him and another author, and I picked the wrong one. fdkggtadshxuwpa! I should’ve known.
And maggie’s hat- no.
are they releasing this movie in the states?
stick to the novel. who knows why they threw money at this turkey! it’s gotta be for non-asian markets, cos chinese viewers have OD’ed on these martial epics (donnie yen’s “empress & warriors” is doing poorly now.) oh well they did put sammo hung in a cool armor suit.
lame trailer
wow, Maggie Q looks gorgeous!
She’s really pretty!
I love her smile!!! but movie is…..
eh…
Just thought you’d like to know she was wearing basically the exact same thing earlier.
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Andy WHO??? Maggie WHO??? Don’t care about aither one of these “posers”.
that’s a nice jacket Andy got there !
Screw Maggie Q
are you kidding? maggie q looks GORGEOUS. and i LOVE her hat! it’s ballin! you guys need to go to london or something…
maggie q is cute…i think she’s half vietnamese too right?
WOW, Maggie is so pretty. Better looking than half the girls on the run way.
She’s very handsome.Almost like a guy.
Gosh, how good can this movie be?!let me see…
ALL the ‘actors’ cant act (Maggie, Vanness… just the thought of them ‘acting’ in an impt piece of traditional Chinese literature is stomach churning) or overacts/acts as his own gorgeous it desperately needs some.
Maggie Q is half Vietnamese, half Caucasian. She looks strange here..and what’s with strange hats lately? But the movie looks EPIC. MUST SEE IT! Especially since It’s based on Romance of the Three Kingdoms.
..needs some good luck for it to not be a laughin stock.
How cool, can’t wait for the movie!
Yay, Andy rocks! He’s like a great wine.
never heard of them
then again im not japanese
“then again im not japanese”
Neither are they.
you don’t know andy lau? he’s only done like 200+ movies in hong kong, china, taiwan. y’know, the guy whose role in “Infernal Affairs” was played by Matt Damon in the remake — The Departed.
He also has careers in music, business, commercial, charity, & film production to develop young filmmakers (blockbuster “Crazy Stone” was a closing film at PUSAN FILM FESTIVAL, that’s in Korea.)
He saves lives at his concerts, too.
when lee young ae was starting out in early 90s, she shot a commercial as the young starlet with andy. that was when hong kong film was more robust than korean industry.
maggie Q looked hot in that bruce willis tanker.
i like Maggie Q style…
No on her style for me. She looked more masculine than feminine.
Now on a Korean actress like, maybe like LDH, that outfit would be amazing.
grossssssss purple jacket!
Maggie Q was awesome in Die Hard 4… wow that jacket is pretty horrible ^^.
trailer is pretty crap
Big fan of Andy. I’m so glad he hasn’t gone plastic–I like the age lines…and if those are hair-plugs, they look pretty good.
None of the tigers age gracefully. Andy is too old already. He should just announce to his fans that he’s married with children already. As for the movie, it doesn’t look too bad.
HK Cinema continues to disappoint, come back from Hollywood Stephen Chow. It has to be said, anything based on Romance of the Three Kingdoms is bound to be boring even if it’s good storytelling. Many would say it’s a literary classic, but it’s a very dry part of Chinese history. Andy’s cool, but he looks kind of “FOB” in that jacket.
I like the hat (seriously, I want to own it.), and I think the movie looks epic.
Hahahaha.
I think Maggie Q looks great.
@ Meru, you are soo very wrong. Have you read the book?! For real?!
It’s in hard to understand older Chinese but Romance of Three Kingdom is such an intricate human study and war epic, with an abundance of GREAT characters… seldom done in full epic scope true to the book, and just NEVER done right. I think it’s avway better book than LOTR. read them same time when I was younger and they have same themes to me. I can bet on my head this production wont surprise me.
@ps
yup, i saw that ‘you’ chocolate cf of andy lau and lee young-ae in the early 90′. looking at them now i think andy lau looks way old compared to lya.
jeesh.. ppl and their ‘eww the purple jacket’ ..
i dont hear that whenever micky (or was it hero? -tvxq) was wearing the purple jacket -__-;;
–then again i’m not implying that those ppl who made that comments are fans of tvxq,
the trailer is………..
@ribbon
because andy’s 10 yrs older!
Maybe andy borrowed fashion tips from andre !
Is that a stay away ring i spot on maggie’s finger ? I read elsewhere she threw a divaish fit before touching down in seoul. can anyone confirm or deny it ?
I actually think Maggie Q looks alright for once in these airport pics. But she just looks odd in the film.
Andy annoys me these days.
And this movie is going to PWNED by Red Cliff.
@soohyun
if you’re Asian & you haven’t heard of Andy Lau then you need to get film-smart quickly.
@Masaya
Agreed! At Andy’s age, he would be MORE attractive married with children (which he actually is–own up to it already, Andy!).
Nothing is grosser than an “over 40″ guy still trying to be a swinging bachelor.
How can people hate on Andy? The man’s amazing…he’s like superhuman with all the stuff that he does. As for the film…well MaggieQ & Vanness together…it’s enough to sink any movie shudders…especially since it’s the three kingdoms…*shudders* Knew it was bad news since the day they announced the project.
apparently he’s a huge thing in korea :/
coz there was this variety show (jihwaza)
and siwon was jus in a movie with andy
and everyone was like WOAHHHHHHH!!! abt it and asking him how it was working with him and stuff
and i remember there was this time wen instead of hallyu wave, there was a hk wave in korea so i guess thats why ppl noe him coz well..he’s ancient!
anyways i found out that andy’s surname (lau) is yoo in korean :S doesnt sound like it haha but then i hav the same surname as him so i guess i’m call..kitty yoo? XD
Andy Lau is ‘ancient’?! He’s in his 40s but still super handsome. Maggie Q doesnt look that much younger next to him. He’s arguably still one of the biggest star in Asia.
Yeah there was a HK wave in Korea in the 80s and early 90s. And Andy Lau is just THAT huge. In many Chinese speaking places, he’s way bigger and more respected than Jackie Chan.
FYI, Jang Dong Gun has a nick of the Korean Andy Lau.
andy lau =D nice actor.
maggie Q =( Just can’t act. >.<
and they’re acutally really famous in the western world, so for those who haven’t heard of them, SHAME ON YOU.
Andy’s been in house of flying daggers, infernal affairs etc
and maggie was in mission impossible 3, all of which are world renowned films.
that’s neat, lau=yoo? if you speak cantonese it’s “lau”. in mandarin it’s “liu” - sounds close to yoo indeed!
actually, it is the same chinese character they use for surname of yu ji-tae.
more on “how big is andy?”
the biggest korean senior actor ahn sung-ki, played supporting role to andy in Battle of Wits!
it flopped in korea tho
maggie luks kewl, but i can’t beliv that the dude in that movie was andy. WTF. and andy omg… WRINKLES… so old ToT… my former fandom *aside from dbsk* wtf. T_T!! wah. the movie luks ok. i didn’t know vanness is in it 8D (doesn’t make me anticipate much tho lol)
@ HATEJJH
Have you actually read the entire novel in Chinese? If you did and still enjoyed it, I must applaud you. It’s only my own and most of my peer’s impression of it and we’re certainly not denying that it’s an influential work on Chinese culture and a lot of literary device and proverbs derived from it. If it’s done to its full epic length which I believe has been attempted with the 84 episodes TV series, and they want to compact it in a three movie installment like LOTR, the Chinese audience will drop like flies. There’s a reason why it hasn’t been made into a movie before. But I assume you agree with me about that the remakes are often poorly executed. Let’s ask Peter Jackson to give it a try
You can feel free to disagree with me about its entertainment value, whether my opinion is right or wrong is subjective, although it does lie with the public opinion.
Love him, he’s a Multitalented actor.
For some reason I just don’t like Maggie Q. She’s cute and everything, but I just can’t come to peace with her.
Meru, I did read the whole thing, quite few times, and many ppl I know did too (we certainly know diff ppl
) I’m guessing you can’t finish the whole thing. If that’s the case, then you really cant judge its merits, can you?
For ppl growing up playing PC games based on this great great work and got hooked BIG TIME and as a gamer, you’ll be amazed how revered this work is to us if you put in the time to read it (for stupid gaming reason or what nots). FYI, there are VERY good versions of it in strip comics style. Those are super enjoyable.
For gamers fluent in Chinese, this may be the only old traditional Chinese literature they ever read, and go nuts loving it.
That’s good for them and for you as well
Congratulations for being such an appreciative fan of the story. It’s not that I can’t read the entire novel, it’s more like I’m not interested and honestly, if it wasn’t for class studies, I wouldn’t even read it. I wouldn’t deter anyone from reading it if they wish, so no worries. Speaking of judging, are you going to judge my peers and me for having our own difference in opinions and taste? I hope your ability to respect someone else’s opinion is as good as your ability to read lengthy historical novels.
I know you and your pals can read, of course, and you just choose to pass on this one since you think it’s ‘boring’or not ‘entertaining’. I do respect a diff in opinions if it has basis. But if you havent read it through once, and knowing its length, it’s a very unjust and unfair judgement, that’s what I am judging on. How do you know if just the next page you missed is the best yet to come? If you’ve read it thro and thro and still think it’s most boring, I would take it st up. I do understand epics are not appealing to everybody.
But then, this is an epic based on EVERYTHING that is the human condition. If you want to understand more about leadership, strategies and tactics in war which can be applied in daily living (Art of War stems fr this), loyalty and betrayal, bravery and heroism, faith (some characters are worshipped still in Chinese temples AND homes/businesses), fate and even romance…or just the art of prose and poems in a literary standpoint it’s all there, with a whole spectrum of characters galore to keep you WIDE awake.
and again, sorry to point it out, many Chinese have read at least parts of it before 10 years old, it’s their very first book, whatever versions, it’s extremely rare to read it just for class studies.
I agree with you there, don’t know what I’m missing out that I’m not getting from other literatures. Not that curious to find out.
“But if you havent read it through once, and knowing its length, it’s a very unjust and unfair judgement, that’s what I am judging on.”
However and again, it’s not so much a judgment, but the impression I got from the portion that I’ve read. I’m not giving it a review, nor am I telling everyone not to read it because it was dry for me. It just sounds like you’re using that as an excuse to change my opinion by reiterating what a good read it was to you.
“and again, sorry to point it out, many Chinese have read at least parts of it before 10 years old, it’s their very first book, whatever versions, it’s extremely rare to read it just for class studies.”
Stories pulled from it, yes, much like Bible stories pulled and made into Sunday school stories for children. Your point?
And I didn’t know you were familiar with the education in HK in the 90’s. I had to studied parts of it when I was studying regarding the difference in myths and actual history. So perhaps it’s too bad that it got introduced to me in the academics and not a personal interest I took on because I was playing Dynasty Warrior
the movie looks good. Maggie Q…hmmm she’s half viet but i think she never considers herself having vietnamese blood in her
Interesting ” conversation” between Meru and HateJJH. Are you both Chinese by any chance?
I remember being asked to read it in school as extra curricular reading because it is a piece of chinese literary classic but I never made it past the one quarter mark
I would like to give u a pat on the back if you did ; )
It was then uncool to be well versed in chinese but strangely as I get older, I don’ mind reading it.
Hell if time permits, I’d like to pick it up to read again.
@ hatejjh :
the “jjh” does not by any chance refer to Jung Ji-hoon does it? hahaha.
” It was then considered uncool ….”
gotta say that chinese fashion is the worst ever
bottom line is that chinese actors and actresses are usually not as pretty or as fashionable as their korean (or often japanese) counterparts. it’s just a fact.
also anyone who says maggie q is pretty has got issues. in china, this half asian/half white look is exotic and revered in actresses. maggie is not the first one to strike it big because of this. even though she is not that pretty, this still get’s her points.
in korea, in contrast, any halfy has to look more korean than white - case in point: daniel henney.
i have yet to see a drop dead gorgeous chinese actress on par with koreas top hotties. even gong-li at her height was not as fine as the pop seoul korean hotties.
in fact, i have seen prettier chinese girls on facebook than in any chinese movie.
andy lau? he looks very very chinese. he’s good looking, but he is old. and his songs suck. they have a distinct 1970s chinese ballad feel to them. don’t sound modern at all. but anyway, anytime chinese is put to song is sounds funny because the language is just not a pretty language… period. mandarin is bearable, but cantonese? it’s right up there with vietnamese.
“anytime chinese is put to song is sounds funny because the language is just not a pretty language… period. mandarin is bearable, but cantonese?”
Indeed and I speak Cantonese, haha. Wouldn’t compare vietmanese with cantonese, though. Cantonese has a more dynamic stress but the intonation is clip less vowel sounds, so it sounds loud. Whereas Korean and Vietnamese are more similar in quantitative accent, they drawl out syllables, the intonation is more pronounced. To me, it sounds like whingy, but only because I don’t speak the language and I’m merely observing.
Whether or not Chinese actors/actress are as ‘pretty and fashionable’ as their Asian counterparts, well that’s a bit unfair and shallow to say, what’s your basis? That Japanese and Koreans look and dress more European? Wear all the European designer dresses and get more plastic surgeries? Case in point, look at the post and comments on PS. Just saying.
Who said Maggie never admit having Vietnamse blood? IF you read her interviews and TV talk show, you will see. She also said that she came to visit VN every now and then and she also mentioned having a lot of relatives there.
tewkewl, that is a very bigoted post. You must have been out of touch and discriminatory of anything Chinese lately or have a very shallow and limited knowledge of it. Chinese entertainment industry is still at an early stage compared to other Asian countries. And in general it’s not as anal or scrutinizing as say Korean/Jap industries on specific looks. PS is not as prevalent yet.
And your statement of anybody having this Eurasian look is more revered is such a joke. Yeah on the surface they may get more opportunities, but seldom do they acquire any critical acclaim and they have a harder time getting the respect of the industry. They may fare better in Hollywood, like Maggie, but if you are talking about Chinese industry alone. You cant be more wrong.
Also, about how a language sounds as lyrics and what is considered a ‘pretty’ language… it’s been long considered that certain dialects of Chinese are very very very easy on the ears and almost sound like music alone. eg Shanghainese so if you dont know enough about anything, shut up.
And just for argument sake, what has having a pretty pic on facebook has anything to do with being a good actress? Gong Li may not be your cup of tea, but that’s just because of your lack of taste. She’s a terrific actress highly regarded worldwide. She’s been on the judging panel on many film festival.
I dont think Jeon Do Yeon is considered classical/anatomically ‘pretty’ but she’s the best breathing Korean actress. You go worship your plastic fantastic and leave discussions of any substance alone.
How did Maggie trick the world into thinking she’s pretty?
I’m cuter than her, maybe I should go to HK and star in movies. I can have ppl dub Chinese over my speaking parts just like Maggie does.