"Flying Eagle Project" is Jackie Chan's most painstaking film, it not only has an investment cost of over 100 million, but the shooting process can also be said to be bumpy
The Chengjia class announced its dissolution after the film, the heroine Zheng Yuling refused to cooperate with Jackie Chan again, and the production manager even squatted in prison for more than three months for the film
There are also those unknown stories behind it, and today I will take you to understand that the "Flying Eagle Project" released in 1991 is actually a sequel to "Brother Dragon and Tiger Brother"
Because the earlier "Brother Dragon" won 35.46 million box office in Hong Kong, which won the first place in the box office, so that Jiahe Company made a lot of money, so Jackie Chan decided to create a big IP of treasure hunting adventure movies, but he has been repeating in the framework of kung fu comedy, which has led many people to point fingers at his acting skills
So in order to prove himself, he directed and acted in the literary film "Miracle" in 1989, which cost 68 million yuan to shoot, although the film received a good reputation after its release, and won the Chinese annual crown in Singapore, Japan, Malaysia and other places, but its Hong Kong box office was only 34 million, and overall it was still unable to make ends meet
Such a result made Jiahe executives very dissatisfied, so there was no way, Jackie Chan re-activated the big IP of "Dragon Brother and Tiger Brother", filmed the sequel "Flying Eagle Plan", hoping to make up for the deficit caused by "Miracle", but never expected that jiahe, who wanted to rely on this action film to get back a sum of Jiahe, was pit by Jackie Chan, "Flying Eagle Plan" invested a total of 115 million Hong Kong dollars before and after, more than 40 million more than the previous "Miracle", in fact, its overrun part mainly comes from transnational consumption
At that time, in order to make the film more international, Jackie Chan led the crew to shoot across the three continents of Asia, Europe and Africa, Morocco is one of the most important stops, due to the harsh local climatic conditions, the crew encountered many difficulties in the filming process, first of all, the water and soil caused many crew members to get sick, and some people were stung by scorpions
Secondly, the high temperature and wind and sand environment, so that the machinery and equipment often out of the situation, the crew had to work before four o'clock in the morning every day, so that they could shoot the required shots before noon, the heroines needed makeup to get up earlier, the actresses really had nowhere to complain, they often hugged and cried together, in order to relieve the inner pressure, although in the end they all persevered, but Zheng Yuling never participated in Jackie Chan's films later
In addition to these uncontrollable factors, the restriction of the filming progress is also hired in Morocco group performances, because the locals have a rest day every week, so when the time comes, they will not shoot, they have to go home to rest, even if Jackie Chan uses double the salary to let them participate in the shooting, these Moroccans also decisively refused, so that the shooting process was once again delayed, so delayed again and again, hundreds of crew members in a foreign country, eating, wearing and living has become a big expense, so it is not okay to think of increasing the cost
In Morocco, there was also a terrible thing, as we all know, Jackie Chan's requirements for props are very strict, so the batch of banknotes needed for filming is very realistic, but then for some reason, this batch of props banknotes were used as real money circulated locally, the Moroccan police immediately summoned Jackie Chan and the production manager Chen Zhihua, and confiscated all the film films
Seeing that all the previous efforts were going to be ruined, the crew quickly hired a lawyer to identify themselves, repeatedly negotiated several times, and finally asked for the film back, but Chen Zhihua was still detained for more than three months for the crime of spreading counterfeit money, and when he came out, he was already skinny, and the strong man in the film who was squeezed by the female savage for more than ten years was actually Chen Zhihua's true color
Because Jackie Chan felt that his image was really too appropriate, so he let him make a cameo in this role, came out to shoot a movie and even attracted the disaster of imprisonment, the production manager was afraid that he did not expect it, so after shooting the main shot, everyone immediately returned to Hong Kong, and by the way, he also brought back dozens of tons of sand in case of the occasional need for a re-shooting shot
In addition, let's talk about the dangerous scenes in the movie, when filming "Brother Dragon Tiger Brother", Jackie Chan almost died because of an action, although this time it was not to the point of death, but the body still suffered a lot of damage, when shooting a shot of pulling the chain down, because he did not pull the chain, fell on the ground without any protective measures, the result was that his sternum was displaced, which scared the crew at the time
Speaking of which, we have to mention the family class behind him, many wonderful scenes in Jackie Chan's movies, in fact, most of them are completed by the family class stand-ins, they have supported each other for many years, but "Flying Eagle Project" is the last time they have cooperated
Because the filming process of this film is very tortuous, there were many people in the family class at that time complained, they asked the boss for a salary increase, although Jackie Chan finally gave them a salary increase, but he felt that this behavior was like a threat to him, coupled with the fact that the people inside the team had been scattered before, so this time he made up his mind to disband his old team, chose to recruit new people for training, and the former close brothers became simple employment, so that the family class became Jackie Chan's hall of words, but this is more convenient to manage
In the end, the Flying Eagle Plan, which cost Jackie Chan countless painstaking efforts, still lost to Stephen Chow's "Truant Weilong" at the box office, but fortunately, it won 39 million US dollars at the overseas box office, which won the champion of the Chinese box office that year, which was also an explanation to Jiahe