Jay Chou has been filming "Pandamen" in Taipei these few days, not only is he directing and starring in it, in pursuit of realness he even used real guns sourced from Hong Kong to film the series, this move caused the police to take notice; this was especially the case last week on Friday (31st of July) when they filmed a gun fight scene in Taipei, it was so real police came to check up on it twice, it was also rumoured a crew member was injured. In order to film his new series Jay Chou sprayed bullets on the Taipei Riverside Park, but who could have though that for the realism, the guns in the actors' hands were real. The scenes with the real guns firing were very real, but if you brought this to downtown, would it make people really scared? Someone online filmed Jay Chou filming the street gun fight last week, not only were there many people surrounding the area watching, the prop car was full of holes, the actors on the side played with the real guns, which included MP5 and handgun "desert eagle", it caused the police to check up twice. Last week when Jay Chou was interviewed he said, "Usually when doing bullet dodging special effects is used, but you have to make people think it's real and you have to think about the safety of the actors, it's actually very pressurised job being the director." Jay Chou admitted using real guns brought about a lot of pressure, they sourced 16 guns from Hong Kong, every day after they finish filming they have to check they have the same amount of guns they gave out, in the filming progress there were rumours someone got hurt, but the crew expressed, the guns used blanks, it is a false rumour. Also, some citizens questioned whether it was against the law to film by the road? The police member confirmed the crew had followed the rules in applying for rights to the road. Jay Chou has just started filming his new series and there's been plenty to talk about. Source NOWnews Translated by: http://www.jaychoustudio.com
Why would anyone be scared? There are tons of cameras and offstage crew surrounding the place... you can obviously tell it's a movie.
