Tony Leung rejoins The Battle of Red Cliff

wait. I thought he spoke fluent Mandarin and Cantonese?

So will this film be full of actors trying to speak Mandarin phonetically? It doesn't seem to bother most people but I found it extremely distracting in CROUCHING TIGER and I doubt this will be any different if it's indeed what's being done. I'd rather they let them speak Cantonese or whatever they are most fluent in and then dub it if it absolutely has to be Mandarin. I'm against dubbing movies but I'll take a dub over phonetic performances any time.

I love Tony Leung and even though I'm sure that I will never see this film I think that it is a very nice thing to help a friend in this way. I like to see news like this :)

Tony is a true Hero.

Awesome. Good luck to Tony.

This. This kind of thing is why we love Tony Leung. And the really good acting only adds to it. He is the BEST. I wish him luck too though i feel he doesn't need it.

Tony speaks Cantonese, Mandarin, and English quite well. The thing is, his Mandarin is not quite as good as his Cantonese, so he wants time to learn his lines better. Trust me, all of the actors are perfectly capable of delivering lines in decent Mandarin. And in Crouching Tiger, none of them were speaking phonetically--they all know Mandarin, some of them just had accents.

I'm glad to see Tony back in this project.