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S C H A I R Spartacus or Kurosawa's Seven So it's very nice to finally be able to even though my film still has to be to a masterpiece like Lawrence of very happy to attempt it (laughs). wanted to show that in China, we can epic of the same scope and quality Hollywood film." What were the main challenges of together? "Even though it's actually the most expensive film ever made in Asia, not just was pretty easy getting the financ- got huge financial suppor t from we also got money from Korea, Hong Kong and China. People in movies so much and there's a lot confidence there in the market, so it was- problem. But getting the script right hard and it took me two years in and 13 scripts and revisions. film is ver y complicated and there many different stories and charac- Also, I wanted to make the stor y appealing to international audiences. are ver y familiar with this stor y of histor y, and they all know the characters. But Western audiences don't about it at all. So it took a lot of work it work for both Asian and West- audiences, so they'd understand it all excited. It's based on the Chinese book "Romance of the Three Kingdoms," and we tried to keep it as true to the his- torical facts as possible." POST: The film was cut by three editors — Angie Lam (Hero),Yang Hogyu (In Love We Trust) and Robert Ferretti, whose credits in- clude Die Hard 11, Rocky V and Highlander : End Game." Tell us about the editing process. WOO: "This film was so big and compli- cated we needed different editors, so one could focus on the drama and one could focus on the battle scenes, and then Angie Lam and Rober t worked together at the star t to pull it all together. But then Rober t left after he'd finished working on par t one, and we brought in David Wu from Canada who helped me work on part two.We cut it all on Avids and did the editing in Beijing, and then did the sound in Australia. The editing took a long time, over half a year to finish." POST: Where did you do the post? How long was the process? WOO: "It took a ver y long time as we basically had to post and mix three different versions. For the longer Asian version we did all the post for par t one in Australia, at SoundFirm in Sydney and Melbourne. The reason was because we love the mixers there and also the facilities, and it was also before China had built this huge new studio, China Film Group, in Beijing, with 16 massive Red Cliff while filming Red Cliff: "I edit in my head while I shoot, so I know exactly what the going to look like in post."