At first, I just wanted to make money

Chapter 808 "The Great Wall"

After the great success of "Taking Tiger Mountain Out of Wisdom", the cooperation between Jackie Chan and Tianmei has also come to an end.

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

"Shinjuku Incident" banned in mainland...

So I collaborated with Poly Bona on "Little Soldier" and with Shanghai Film Group on "The Revolution of [-]"...

Then it was deeply bound with Qi Jianhong!

In 08, the two worked together to set up a company, and eventually there was Jackie Chan International Cinema.

Since 12, Sparkle Roll has also shifted its investment focus to the film and television field, and has exclusively owned the Jackie Chan brand.

It stands to reason that this "Chinaman" should be handed over to Yaolai...

Although Jackie Chan's current international appeal has dropped a lot—at its peak, "Dragon Rebirth" was taken away by Columbia Samsung Pictures for a copyright fee of US$5000 million...

But with his reputation, if he sold it for more than 1000 million US dollars, it shouldn't be a big problem...

——The overseas box office of "Zodiac" exceeded 5000 million US dollars!

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

Shen Xudong shook his head: "If you have an idea, it is impossible to use it on you... Your action scene has been fixed..."

Jackie Chan was 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, can I?"

"...The background of the book "Chinaman" is a bunch of historical entanglements between Britain and Northern Ireland, which few people are interested in..."

The biggest highlight of "Chinaman" or "British Showdown" is actually one person fighting 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, and took extreme actions after asking for help. The story of government officials who may know the truth of the incident and finally kill the enemy...

Movies like Die Hard, First Blood, Law Abiding Citizen...

The problem is that "Chinaman" puts the background in the United Kingdom-from the perspective of a low-level immigrant and outsider to see the contradictions between Britain and Northern Ireland.

Britain...is not the center of the world for a long time, and you have to spend time explaining the big picture.

The problem is also here, Britain is no longer the center of the world, you will feel even more boring after knowing this...

It's like Iron Lady... At first I heard the name, I think it's awesome, but after a little understanding, I feel... that's it...

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

Anyway, Shen Xudong is not interested!

Jackie Chan saw that Shen Xudong was not interested, so he changed the subject and started talking about Zhang Yimou: "I really wanted to work with director Zhang Yimou..."

"It's hard, isn't it?"

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

The same top-level movie characters have their own style of work. Without excellent ideas and compromises, it is really difficult to integrate.If one side is emphasized, the other side becomes a decoration and loses its value.

Regarding the cooperation between the two, Jackie Chan has a high intention to cooperate, and every time he talks about it, he is elated and elated.However, Zhang Yi is relatively low-key and calm in a certain way, just an official cliché that means "waiting for an opportunity in the making".

It's just... a bit like a hot face sticking to someone's cold butt!

In fact, Jackie Chan is the most suitable actor for "Detective Chinatown", provided that he is 20 years younger...

Back then, Jackie Chan was really persistent in his transformation. Zhang Yimou, Li An, Yang Dechang and other masters who made their fortunes in literary and artistic films were all searched 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 past the Great Wall by plane some time ago and looked down from the air. I really thought it was a very remarkable human miracle... Later I read the information on the Great Wall. From a purely military point of view, the Great Wall is Farming peoples have decisive fortifications against tribal nomads, and ancient Rome also built the Great Wall, Hadrian's Great Wall... The night watchmen in "A Song of Ice and Fire" guarded the Great Wall..."

"Great Wall?"

"Yes, I want to make a monster movie that fights monsters on the Great Wall... The investment is at least 1 million US dollars, refer to Hollywood's A-level production..."

"One hundred million dollars..."

"Well, after I finish filming "Detective Chinatown" in my hand, I will go to Warner and Legend..."

"They invest together?"

"Of course, the cost of [-] million U.S. dollars must be distributed globally, and the domestic market alone cannot pay back the cost!"

Jackie Chan probably understood: "When I finish "Zodiac", I will save time..."

"No rush, it won't start until 2013 at the earliest..."

……

The story core and creativity of "The Great Wall" are not bad.

It's just too Hollywood template-like "Star Trek 3"...

Even if you cut off the bells and whistles of the women's show and the crane army, you can get a passing grade at most!

Why do you say that?

Because... not cool enough!

The most important thing about popcorn cool slices is cool!
It’s better to be cool step by step. "The Great Wall" is just the opposite. Except for the monster attacking the city in the first act, which is a bit interesting, the latter part is too perfunctory.

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

The "Great Wall" conceived by Shen Xudong directly superimposed the dynasty, starting with the annihilation of a certain dragon's expedition in Cathay, and then Miaoying was ordered to defend the Great Wall in danger!

The male protagonist went south to look for reinforcements. After fighting a few games, he conquered and got acquainted with the prince of the Southern Border Dynasty in the south. Finally, just like in "The Lord of the Rings", he led the reinforcements to arrive and killed the enemy...

The plot refers to Yu Qianshou's BJ, and Miaoying is Yu Qian who has switched genders...

Uh, this drama is just for Jing Tian!
By the way, the Wuying Army was changed to Yuyong Longwei and Pegasus Knights in Cathay - the inexplicable Yangko team is very annoying to watch!
In fact, looking at the setting of the Aurora Dynasty, you can tell that they have read Zhang Yimou's "The Great Wall" with certainty, and of course they must have referred to others.In addition, when "The Great Wall" was released... a group of people in the Warhammer Post Bar were shouting "Ah, this is Cathay!"

A lot of people said, "The Great Wall" can just make up a superficial dynasty at will, and then emphasize that it is a magical world. ', I can't change it, Zhang Yimou had to fly to the US several times in order to delete the sex scenes...

During the interview of "The Great Wall", Pedro Pascal said that he had seen the script written by Zhang Yi's team and expressed his shock, but the version he filmed later made him a little bit unbearable...

In addition, the plot of "The Great Wall" is not for the audience or for the movie, but for the heroine.

It's really not easy for Lao Mouzi. There are too many things to consider in the original version of "The Great Wall". The behind-the-scenes sponsors of Datiantian, the backstage companies of Lu Han, Wang Junkai, Lin Gengxin, Zheng Kai, Peng Yuyan, etc., Hollywood bigwigs and foreign capital...

How much capital was spent by each of the above-mentioned groups, how many connections were used, and how did they insert their characters into this big drama...

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

Tsk tsk, if this is photographed, it will look very good!
……

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

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

Therefore, Jackie Chan, who has not been a director for many years, personally took the role of director!

Asian eagle!
The first one is "Dragon Brother and Tiger Brother". When I was filming the first part, I didn't think of using the name "Flying Eagle Project". I don't know if it was because of Alan Tam. I named it "Dragon Brother and Tiger Brother" played by Jackie Chan. In the first part, Feiying also tried to steal God's armed forces for his ex-girlfriend.

In the second part, it was directly renamed "Flying Eagle Project"...

In the original time and space, "Flying Eagle Project" was released in the United States earlier than "Dragon Brothers and Tiger Brothers", so the latter was renamed "Flying Eagle Project [-]" for the convenience of the release, and when it came to "Zodiac", because Jackie Chan was no longer in Golden Harvest , of course the copyright name of Flying Eagle Project cannot be used, so the name was changed to "Twelve Zodiac"...

As long as we know that these trilogy are the same series, and besides being treasure hunting and adventure themes, all of these trilogy have scenes of Jackie Chan eating chewing gum in a fancy way!

Of course, Shen Xudong acquired Golden Harvest, Jackie Chan and Golden Harvest cooperated again, "Zodiac" was renamed "Flying Eagle Project: Twelve Zodiac"...

Therefore, "Zodiac" Golden Harvest also has investment...

Tianmei took over the mainland distribution.

Shen Xudong's idea is to launch the National Day file next year...

Jackie Chan is not very satisfied, he wants to celebrate the new year even more.

(End of this chapter)