Starring Zhou Xingchi, Wu Mengda and Zhang Min, "Truant Weilong" has brought countless joys to countless post-80s and post-90s, and many people will still search for it on the Internet until now, and even lament why there are only three such classic series. Recently, Huang Yishan, who played the role of Huang Xiaogui in the first two films, answered this question.
"Why isn't there a fourth episode?" We have a formula in the industry to shoot a sequel, if the first episode is very popular, the second episode of the audience has no freshness, the box office will be low, generally speaking, the second season of the box office has 80% of the first season, we will continue to shoot! And so on. "Truant Veyron", the second episode is barely good, and by the third episode, it is really in full swing. Huang Yishan said on a short video platform.
In fact, as he said, when it was released in 1991, "Truant Veyron 1" grossed 43.83 million Hong Kong dollars, in 1992, "Truant Veyron 2" dropped to 31.64 million Hong Kong dollars, and in 1993, "Truant Veyron 3 Dragon Over the Year of the Rooster" was only 25.78 million Hong Kong dollars in the New Year file, far from reaching the 80% passing line. Obviously, the potential of this IP has been tapped almost completely, and it can only be a chicken feather to shoot again.
Huang Yishan also said that the style of Wang Jing's "Truant Weilong 3 Dragon Year" has changed drastically, in fact, it has little to do with the first two films, "without the school background, without those students, and without the core characters such as Da Ge (Wu Mengda), in fact, the taste has been completely different." ”
Of course, Stephen Chow's rising salary and the difficulty of making money by film companies are also important factors in the stop of the sequel. Huang Yishan, who is familiar with the inside story, revealed: "In fact, the film remuneration of Xingye (Zhou Xingchi) was rising step by step, and the box office of more than 25 million sounded good, but after giving Xingye a film remuneration, there was very little left." So the boss Xiang Huasheng (Xiang Huaqiang's younger brother) thought for a long time and then thought, hey, then forget it, since many film series are the end of the trilogy, then simply take "Truant Weilong 3 Dragon Over the Year of the Rooster" as the ending. ”
In my opinion, "Truant Weilong" is a smart way to accept it when it is good, because continuing to shoot is likely to be rotten, which will destroy the reputation of the entire series and affect the position of the first two films in the history of Chinese films. In fact, most people only remember the first two, don't they?