Photos by: Cinema Online and Loong Wai Ting
The stars of Hong Kong’s “All’s Well, End’s Well” were in town yesterday to promote their new movie and of course, to meet their fans. The stars – Raymond Wong, Sandra Ng, Louis Koo and Ronald Cheng when met during the press conference at Sunway Resort Hotel & Spa said that due to the overwhelming response from the audiences last year, that this year’s “All’s Well, End’s Well Too 2010” will be more interesting. “Audiences can expect to see something different as compared to last year’s version. This year, we decided to include some of the modern elements like the internet and social-networking into our story,” said Director Raymond Wong who also co-starred in the movie.
(L-R) Raymond Wong, Louis Koo, Sandra Ng and Ronald Cheng
Later in the night, members of the public were literally over-the-moon, when the stars made their surprise public appearances at the Centre Court of Pavilion at Kuala Lumpur. Right after the meeting, the stars were spotted letting their hair down at the Dragonfly Kuala Lumpur, located at Jalan Kia Peng at 10.30pm.
In a separate conference room later this writer had the opportunity to talk to the director in person. Below are some of the excerpts from yesterday’s conversation with the long time director, Raymond Wong.
Voize: Hello, Raymond. So, was it hard to get all three (Louis Koo, Sandra Ng and Ronald Cheng) of them together again to make “All’s Well, End’s Well 2010?”
Raymond Wong (RW): Well, after our successful “All’s Well, End’s Well 2009” it is indeed very hard to get all three of them to act in the same movie again. But, as Sandra (Ng) said in order to play a good game of Mahjong, we need four people, thus all three of them agreed almost immediately to do this one.
Voize: Tell us about the writing process of “All’s Well, End’s Well”
RW: My writer, who is also my son Edmond Wong was writing “Ip Man 2” and “All’s Well, End’s Well” at one sitting. The 2009 version, we took almost four months to make, but the 2010 version we took less than a month to complete.
Voize: What about your filming location? Mind sharing it with our readers?
RW: The film was shot entirely at Hengdian and Hangzhou.
Raymond Wong
Voize: What about ideas?How did the writing process came about especially when you’re writing for funny movies?
RW: Since the 80s until now, everyone is quite familiar that I make at least one movie especially for Chinese New Year release. And most of them broke the box office record for being the most successful film during that period. But only recently, that I decided to switch between comedy and action thriller like “Dragon Tiger Gate” and “Seven Swords.” When making a comedy movie, I always tell myself that the whole idea must be funny and suitable for everyone, doesn’t matter if your three or 80 years old.
Voize: All right. What about preference? Do you like making a modern-setting movie or a classical one?
RW: I love making both. I don’t have a specific preference, really, which is also why you see a modern version of “All’s Well, End’s Well” last year and now you see the classical version.
Voize: What about pressure? There are a lot of movies releasing the same time as “All’s Well, End’s Well” here in Malaysia.
RW: Honestly, I don’t have any pressure at all. I have confident in my movies, that this will be better than last year.
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