Hello everyone, I'm Hua Tsai. In 1989, Jackie Chan directed and acted in the literary film "Miracle", Jackie Chan was famous for action movies and always wanted to prove his acting skills, but Jiahe Film Company felt that literary and art films did not make money and were unwilling to invest in Jackie Chan. Jackie Chan had a hard time convincing Jiahe, but Jackie Chan was used to making action movies, "Miracle" actually cost 68 million to shoot, Jiahe Film Company felt wrong, so shooting is definitely going to lose money, asking Jackie Chan to design a lot of action scenes in the film, Jackie Chan resisted the pressure and did not listen to Jiahe. After the release of "Miracle", the reputation is really good, jackie Chan also won the Academy Award and the Golden Horse Award nomination for the film emperor, but the film Hong Kong box office of 34 million, because it is a literary film, the overseas market of "Miracle" is also average. So Jackie Chan proposed to make an action movie "Flying Eagle Project" to make up for the loss of "Miracle".
"Flying Eagle Project" is the sequel to "Dragon Brother tiger brother" directed by Jackie Chan and Zeng Zhiwei in 1987, and "Dragon Brother Tiger Brother" also has a title of "God Armed Forces". In 1991, another title of "Flying Eagle Project" when it was released was "God Armed Forces 2", interestingly, "Flying Eagle Project" was sold in North America, "Dragon Brother and Tiger Brother" was also introduced to the North American market, and the result was released by the filmmakers as "Flying Eagle Project 2", fortunately, this series of plots is independent, otherwise the North American audience must be the head, for this series Jackie Chan has been obsessed, in 2012 also filmed a sequel "Flying Eagle Project 3", but the copyright of "Flying Eagle Project" is in the hands of Jiahe, so it was renamed "Zodiac". This series has also witnessed the growth of Jackie Chan, "Flying Eagle Project" Jackie Chan self-directed and self-written, "Zodiac" Jackie Chan concurrently produced, producer, director, starring, screenwriter, martial arts director and other 15 positions, creating a Guinness record of the most concurrent filmmakers in a film.
When filming "Flying Eagle Project" Jiahe was afraid of Jackie Chan, it is good to say that Jackie Chan was required to reduce expenses, after all, the last movie "Miracle" has lost money, but Jackie Chan wants to make an international blockbuster, just the filming location crosses the three continents of Asia, Africa and Europe, the film shooting has accidents continuously, in Morocco, the local wind and sand machine is always a problem, resulting in slow shooting progress, Jackie Chan big brother is generous to the staff, think of hundreds of people in a foreign country, clothing, living and eating is a huge expense, located in the desert conditions are very difficult, the crew 90% The above staff members are not satisfied, and the actresses often cry with headaches.
This side of the shooting difficulties, there are props and accidents, the props used by the crew are too realistic, do not know how to circulate in the market, the police once confiscated the film film, seeing that the shooting of several months is about to be destroyed, the crew quickly identified themselves, contacted the lawyer, a toss to get back the film, but the manager in charge of prop production squatted in prison for three months, after shooting the necessary footage, the crew did not want to stay for a moment, with the wounded rushed back to Hong Kong. Jackie Chan worried about the accident and deliberately used 10 tons of sand to return to Hong Kong set, even if the later need to reshoot will not return to Morocco, until the film was overspended all the way, and finally spent 115 million Hong Kong dollars to finish filming, which was the most expensive film production in Hong Kong at that time. Unfortunately, "The Flying Eagle Project" still did not win the Hong Kong box office, and in 1991, Stephen Chow's "Truant Veyron" won 43.83 million at the box office, while "The Flying Eagle Project" ranked second at the box office with 39.05 million. Fortunately, the overseas market is the home of Jackie Chan's big brother, and the global box office of "Flying Eagle Project" broke through 39 million US dollars, easily winning the global Chinese film box office champion that year.
In 1987, "Brother Dragon Tiger Brother" in Yugoslavia when Jackie Chan wanted to jump from the castle to a tree three meters away, unfortunately slipped his hand and fell to the ground, this accident almost killed Jackie Chan, is the most dangerous time in Jackie Chan's film career, to this "Flying Eagle Project" is still a life-fighting performance, in the filming of a shot of pulling a chain down to jump down the mistake reappeared, Jackie Chan fell to the ground without any protection, chest displacement, it can be said that injury is Jackie Chan's daily routine.
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