After the new film's release, Richie Jen has not promoted it The Juno Mak directed SONS OF THE NENO NIGHT not only had a poor reputation and box office, but also caused controversy courtesy of on.ccIn SONS OF THE NEON NIGHT Richie Jen played Takeshi Kaneshiro's bodyguard The team reveals the reasons Juno Mak replaced Xiong Xinxin courtesy of mingpao.comThe Louis Koo Tin Lok, Takeshi Kaneshiro (Gum Sing Mo) and Sean Lau Ching Wan starred film SONS OF THE NEON NIGHT (FUNG LUM FOR SHAN) since its release has had a tidal wave of negative reviews and ample gossips. Early on Gum Sing Mo and Richie Jen (Yam Yin Chai, Siu Chai) refused additional shoot for SONS because they were at odds with director Juno Mak Chun Lung. The day before yesterday the reason for the "fallout" was that Juno almost killed Siu Chai's stand-in during the shoot, which made Siu Chai furious! The film was released for 3 days, but its cumulative box office was only 3.15 million. With the mainland box office also reported "loss of revenue", and the investment of 400 million yuan was "in danger"!The Juno Mak Chun Lung directed film SONS OF THE NEON NIGHT (FUNG LUM FOR SHAN) has received a lot of negative reviews since it was screened at the midnight section of the Cannes Film Festival in May this year. Recently released in Hong Kong and the mainland, the film has also attracted a large number of negative reviews. Many felt that the story was loose and in tatters, some even claimed that lasting to the final 10 minutes was very tough as they could not comprehend a lot of the story.With mediocre film reviews and audience reactions, gossips about SONS has also never stopped. Once served as the action director for the film, Xiong Xinxin a few days ago forwarded a photo of a friend watching the screening and wrote, "The works of a psychopath are not worth looking forward to." Allegedly it was a jab at Director Juno, then a lot of controversy ensued. Some pointed out that Xiong Xinxin's stunts during his tenure as action director were too ruthless, as accidents occurred almost every day. A group of front-line stuntmen was frightened and quit collectively, before another action director Tang Shui Wah replaced him.After the news came out, it has been fermenting for several days. The latest revelation was that the reason why Taiwanese artists Takeshi Kaneshiro (Gum Sing Mo) and Richie Ren (Yam Yin Chai) had a feud with Juno in their early years, which turned out to be due to the action scenes. Some who claimed to have started work on the SONS film pointed out that Siu Chai did not perform a scene where he was hung and a stunt double in stood in for him. Originally they agreed to hang for about 10 seconds, but when the actual shoot came Director Juno never shouted for a cut. He wanted the double to struggle for his life before returning him to the ground. Due to the long time strangulation, the double almost suffocated and was sent to the hospital, which made Siu Chai very angry!In addition, some pointed out that Juno also asked Siu Chai to perform a choking reaction in the scene. Siu Chai was almost strangled to suffocation, finally got angry and cursed. Gum Sing Mo was on set, and was on the same front as Siu Chai, and the two left the team after completing all the scenes. Then they all refused all make up shoots for the scenes.The safety of SONS' action scenes has been controversial. Actually Michelle Wai Sze Nga and Tony Leung Ka Fai have also had an accident. In one scene where Wai Sze Nga ran and jumped onto the back of a leaned over Leung Ka Fai, unexpectedly she accidentally injured his waist. He had to rest for a few days, which made Wai Sze Nga feel guilty. Many online also wondered about the safety of the film's stunts, due to the unusually high number of accidents.The investment of SONS is as high as HK$ 400 million, and it took 8 years from filming to release. It was released in Hong Kong and the mainland on the 1st of this month. Because it ran into a movie ticket discount in Hong Kong, the admission rate was okay. Yet the next time it took a nosedive. After 3 days in release its box office has only received HK$ 3.15 million. In the mainland, as of yesterday it has received 50.38 million yuan RMB (around HK$ 55.06 million) in an also iffy showing. Mainland industry insiders estimated that the box office would be around 100 million yuan RMB (around HK$ 109 million and would suffer a loss that cut to the bone.