From left to right, director Jiang Wen, cast members Chow Yun-fat and Ge You pose for a photo at a press conference for the movie "Let the Bullets Fly" in Beijing on Tuesday, November 10, 2009. [sina.com]

Director Jiang Wen revealed his secret to pool over two of China's most in-demand leading men - Chow Yun-fat and Ge You - in his upcoming film "Let the Bullets Fly."

There are two ways to snag two box office-topping actors, he said at a press conference in Beijing on Tuesday.

From left to right, cast members Chen Kun, Yao Lu, Liao Fan and Zhang Mo pose for a photo at a press conference for the movie "Let the Bullets Fly" in Beijing on Tuesday, November 10, 2009. [sina.com]

"The first way is to tell Mr. Ge that we already have Chow Yun-fat, and ask him, 'are you coming too?' And then I'll turn to Chow and tell him the same thing about Ge You," he said.

"Or, I'll tell each of them that the other one wants his role desperately."

However, he says he actually didn't have to resort to either of these tactics.

"In fact, I sent two letters to both of them, a thick one and a thin one. The thick one, which was 140 pages, was the script; the thin one, which was only one page, was a check."

"Let the Bullets Fly," the actor-turned-director's fourth project, started filming in early October with a release date set for the fall of 2010.