Chapter 808 "The Great Wall"

After the huge success of "Taking Tiger Mountain", the cooperation between Jackie Chan and Tianmei also came to an end.

In the past two years, he has collaborated with the Emperor on "Shinjuku Incident"...

"Shinjuku Incident" is banned in the mainland...

So I collaborated with Paulie Bona on "Little Soldiers", and then collaborated with the movie "Revolution of 1911"...

Then he was deeply bound to Qi Jianhong!

In 2008, the two worked together to open a company, which eventually led to Jackie Chan International Cinemas.

Starting from 2012, Sparkle Roll also shifted its investment focus to the film and television field and exclusively owned the Jackie Chan brand.

Logically speaking, this "Chinaman" should be handed over to Yao Lai...

Although Jackie Chan's international appeal has declined a lot now - at its peak, "Rebirth of the Dragon" was taken away by Columbia TriStar Pictures for a copyright fee of US$50 million just after filming...

But with his reputation, selling for more than 10 million US dollars shouldn’t be a big problem...

——The overseas box office of "Zodiac" exceeded US$50 million!

Jackie Chan himself explained: "I watched "The Grandmaster" and I feel that you have great ideas about kung fu movies..."

Shen Xudong shook his head: "I can't use it on you even if I have an idea... Your action scenes have been fixed..."

Jackie Chan was very distressed: "I want to change!"

"There is no reason to change...your kung fu comedy is the only one in the world..."

"But I can't keep fighting, right?"

"...The background of the book "Chinaman" is a bunch of historical disputes between the United Kingdom and Northern Ireland, which not many people are interested in..."

The biggest highlight of "Chinaman", also known as "British Showdown", is actually one person against the entire system - the old man played by Jackie Chan died in an attack caused by his only daughter being involved in a political game. After being unable to appeal, he took extreme action and threatened The story of a government official who may have known the truth of the incident and ended up killing his enemy...

Similar movies "Die Hard", "First Blood", "Law Abiding Citizen"...

The problem is that "Chinaman" is set in the United Kingdom - looking at the conflicts in Britain and Northern Ireland from the perspective of a lower-class immigrant and outsider.

Britain...has long ceased to be the center of the world. You still have to spend time explaining this background.

This is also the problem. Britain is no longer the center of the world. If you understand this, you will feel even more boring...

Just like the Iron Lady... At first glance, I thought the name was awesome, but after getting to know it a little bit, I felt... just like that...

This is also the reason why this movie is obviously well-made, but its global box office is still not very good...

Shen Xudong is not interested anyway!

Seeing that Shen Xudong was not interested, Jackie Chan changed the subject and talked about Zhang Yimou: "I really wanted to collaborate with director Zhang Yimou..."

"Is it difficult?"

"Well, it's a bit difficult... there is no suitable script..."

They are both top film figures, but their work styles all have their own style. Without excellent creativity and compromise from both sides, it is really difficult to integrate. If you focus on one side, the other side will become a decoration and lose its value.

Regarding the cooperation between the two, Jackie Chan has a high intention to cooperate, and he is very happy every time he talks about it. However, Zhang Yi is relatively low-key and calm in some respects, just using official clichés that mean "it's brewing and waiting for the opportunity."

It just... feels like having a hot face against someone's cold ass!

In fact, Jackie Chan is the most suitable actor for "Detective Chinatown", provided that he is twenty years younger...

At that time, Jackie Chan was really persistent in his transformation. Masters such as Zhang Yi, Ang Lee, and Yang Dechang, who made their fortunes in literary films, were all sought out by him.

But no one answered...

Shen Xudong thought for a while: "How about I write a script?"

"What genre do you write...?"

Shen Xudong did not answer directly, but said: "I flew by the Great Wall some time ago and looked down from the air. I really thought it was a very amazing human miracle... Later I looked through the information on the Great Wall. From a purely military perspective, the Great Wall is The agrarian people have decisive defenses against the tribal nomads, and ancient Rome also built the Great Wall, Hadrian's Wall... The night watchman in "A Song of Ice and Fire" guards the Great Wall..."

"Great Wall?"

"Yes, I want to make a monster movie about fighting monsters on the Great Wall... invest at least 100 million US dollars, and refer to Hollywood A-level production..."

"One hundred million dollars..."

"Well, after I finish filming "Detective Chinatown", I will go to Warner Bros. and Legendary..."

"They invest together?"

"Of course, the cost of US$100 million must be distributed globally, and the domestic market alone cannot make up for it!"

Jackie Chan probably understood: "When I finish "Twelve Zodiac Signs", I will set aside time..."

"There's no rush, it won't start until 2013 at the earliest..."

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The core story and creativity of "The Great Wall" are pretty good.

It's just too Hollywood-style - just like "Star Trek III"...

Even if we cut off all the bells and whistles like the women's drama and the crane army, it will still only get a passing grade at best!

Why do you say that?

Because...it's not cool enough!

The most important thing about popcorn snacks is that they are delicious!

It's best to have fun gradually, but "The Great Wall" is just the opposite. Except for the monster siege in the first act, which is interesting, the rest is too perfunctory.

It's really not as good as the "Total War: Medieval Warhammer" series, especially the CG of "Chinese Empire"...

"The Great Wall" conceived by Shen Xudong directly ignores the dynasty, starting with the entire army of a certain dragon in Cathay's expedition, and then Miaoying is ordered to hold on to the Great Wall in danger!

The male protagonist went south to look for reinforcements. After several battles, he conquered the prince of the Southern Xinjiang Dynasty who got to know the south. In the end, just like "The Lord of the Rings", he led the reinforcements to arrive and defeated the enemy...

The plot refers to Yu Qian Shou's BJ, Miaoying is the gender-swapped Yu Qian...

Well, this drama is just for Jing Tian!

By the way, the Five Shadow Army was changed to the Jade Dragon Guards and Pegasus Knights from Cathay - the inexplicable Yangko team made people very unhappy!

In fact, looking at the setting of Dynasty of Sinian, we know that they definitely watched Zhang Yimou's "The Great Wall", and of course they must have also made reference to other things. In addition, when "The Great Wall" was released... a group of people in the Warhammer forum were shouting "Ah, this is Cathay!"

Many people say that "The Great Wall" can just make up an imaginary dynasty and emphasize that it is a magical world. ’, it can’t be changed, Zhang Yimou had to fly to the United States several times in order to delete the sex scenes...

When being interviewed by "The Great Wall", Pedro Pascal said that he had read the script written by Zhang Yi's team and said that it was amazing, but the version that was shot later made him a little bit intolerable...

In addition, the plot of "The Great Wall" does not serve the audience or the movie, but serves the heroine.

It is indeed not easy for Lao Mouzi. There are too many things to consider in the original version of "The Great Wall", including the financial backers behind Da Tiantian, the backstage companies of Lu Han, Wang Junkai, Lin Gengxin, Zheng Kai, Eddie Peng, etc., and Hollywood big shots. and overseas capital…

How much money did each of the above groups spend, how many connections did they use, and how did they insert their characters into this drama...

How many forces does Zhang Yi need to balance...

Gee, if this were photographed, it would probably look great!

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After talking about "The Great Wall", Shen Xudong asked about "Twelve Zodiac Signs". Jackie Chan was quite satisfied with "Twelve Zodiac Signs".

By the way, "Twelve Zodiac Signs" was originally "Eagle Project 3"...

Therefore, Jackie Chan, who has not been a director for many years, stepped into the role of director himself!

Asian flying eagle!

The first part is "Dragon Brothers and Tiger Brothers". Probably when I was filming the first part, I didn't think of using the name "Eagle Project". I don't know if it was because of the addition of Alan Tam. I named the character "Dragon Brothers and Tiger Brothers" played by Jackie Chan. In the first part, Flying Eagle also stole the God's Arms for his ex-girlfriend.

When it came to the second part, it was directly renamed "Eagle Project"...

In the original time and space, "Eagle Project" was released in the United States earlier than "Dragon Brothers and Tiger Brothers", so the publisher conveniently changed the name of the latter to "Eagle Project II". By the time of "Zodiac", Jackie Chan was no longer in Jiahe , of course we couldn't use the copyright name "Eagle Project", so we changed the name to "Twelve Zodiac Signs"...

As long as we know that these three trilogies are the same series, and in addition to being about treasure hunting and adventure, these three trilogies also have scenes of Jackie Chan eating chewing gum in a fancy way!

Of course, Shen Xudong acquired Golden Harvest, Jackie Chan and Golden Harvest reunited, and "Zodiac" was renamed "Eagle Project: Chinese Zodiac"...

Therefore, "Twelve Zodiac" Jiahe also has investments...

Tianmei takes over mainland distribution.

Shen Xudong’s idea is to release the National Day movie next year...

Jackie Chan is not very satisfied, he even wants the Lunar New Year stalls.