Donnie Yen sues director Tan Bing
25 Feb – It was reported that famed martial arts film star, Donnie Yen, has filed a lawsuit against Chinese film director Geng Weiguo (also known as Tan Bing) for damaging his reputation, demanding compensation of RMB 5 million in the process.
As reported on Asianpopnews, the actor released a statement about his legal decision, saying there was no contractual agreement and official employment relationship between both parties and that Tan Bing's statement had constituted defamation as they were all fabricated rumours.
Last year, Tan Bing held a media conference and publicly slammed Donnie Yen for allegedly seizing his film project, "Ultimate Codebreaker" and renaming it to "Special Identity".
He claimed that Donnie had tried to seize Jacky Chan's producer role after knowing that the latter would not be starring in the film, requested for a 10% increase in remuneration and declined former Super Junior member, Han Geng from joining the set due to the latter's popularity outshining his own.
Tan Bing continued, alleging that his investor had withdrawn from the project and caused him to lose his job as scriptwriter and director due to Donnie's domineering behaviour. He further claimed that the disputes between Vincent Zhao and Donnie had escalated because "Donnie Zhao's driver murdered Vincent Zhao's driver". Donnie's driver was accused of murdering Vincent's driver.
To this, Donnie has filed for four lawsuits and demanded that the defendant, Geng Weiguo, stop all actions that will infringe upon other party's legitimate rights, make a written apology on the media, compensate RMB 5 million for economic loss and emotional distress to plaintiff [Donnie Yen] and bear all fees related to the lawsuit, lawyer and notary.
