"Kowloon Walled City" was a big hit, Wu Jing was not calm, and used the new film "Dart Man" to fight with it

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2024-05-26 23:14Published in Anhui film creators

Wu Jing either doesn't make a move, and he will be a hit!

Recently, at the Shenzhen 2024 Cultural Power Construction Summit Forum, someone saw Wu Jing and asked on the spot: "Teacher Wu Jing, when will your "Wolf Warrior 3" be filmed?" ”

Wu Jing trotted all the way and did not give a positive answer, however, he stretched out five fingers. Some people judge that this is a wave of the hand to indicate that there is no meaning of "Wolf Warrior 3", and some people say that five fingers mean five years later.

We didn't wait for the news of "Wolf Warrior 3", but waited for the news of Wu Jing's new film "Dart Man". I dare to say that this will definitely be a king bomb film, with a box office guarantee of 2 billion, and listen to Brother Brown's analysis as follows:

1. "Kowloon Walled City" is a big hit, and the spring of manga is coming.

It's about to be June, and almost halfway through 2024, in addition to the Spring Festival file, the mainland film market has exposed two films in the regular schedule: one is "Three Evils in the Week" starring Ruan Jingtian; The other is Louis Koo's "The Siege of the Kowloon Walled City".

Among them, after the opening of "Kowloon Walled City" on May 1st, the mainland box office hit 600 million, and it is predicted that the box office will be 700 million, and the budget cost of this film is 300 million, and the cost has been recovered by the mainland market alone.

Also, the Hong Kong market exploded directly, and on April 26, the Hong Kong box office of "Kowloon Walled City" exceeded 77.05 million Hong Kong dollars, surpassing Huang Zihua's "I Still Think You're the Best" and becoming the third runner-up film in Hong Kong Chinese film history.

Second only to "The Bad Tongue Lawyer" with 145 million Hong Kong dollars and "Tomorrow's War" with 81.82 million Hong Kong dollars, ranking third.

At present, "Tomorrow's War" is already in the bag, and some netizens proposed that Louis Koo appear to dance the famous song "This Issue", which I believe can help the movie become the champion.

In addition, "Kowloon Walled City" shined at the Cannes Film Festival, after the screening, the audience applauded for 7 minutes, and the staff of the producer Universal Pictures sold the rights to sell softly.

As a result, director Zheng Baorui announced that the prequel of the series "The Dragon Head of the Kowloon Walled City", the sequel "The Final Chapter of the Kowloon Walled City", and "The Legend of the Kowloon Walled City" have been developed one after another.

The box office explosion of "Kowloon Walled City" released a signal: manga movies have huge market potential.

As we all know, Hollywood is the pioneer of comic movies, and they have the Marvel Cinematic Universe that has been laid out for 11 years, and has sent "Iron Man", "Doctor Strange", "American Team", "Ant-Man", "Thor" and so on to the world.

There are also Sony's "Spider-Man", DC's "Superman", "Batman", and "Aquaman", all of which are adapted from comics.

We started late, and Hong Kong has also made several comic films before, such as "Fengyun", "Chinese Heroes", "Dragon Tiger Gate", etc., but none of them have formed an IP effect.

"Kowloon Walled City" has driven Hong Kong films to take off for the second time, and manga movies will also usher in spring.

Second, Wu Jing is not calm, since there is a market for mangai, let's call it out.

Guo Fan's "The Wandering Earth" opened the door to Chinese science fiction before, but there were no filmmakers to argue with it in the follow-up, everyone knows that science fiction films are too expensive, and it is better to shoot a few more "Hot and Hot" with this money.

This time, the explosion of "Kowloon Walled City" can be regarded as opening the door to China's comic reform, since science fiction films are not good, then find another way, following "Kowloon Walled City", Wu Jing also started on manga.

At this forum, Wu Jing revealed and explained that the reason why he had long hair and beard was to prepare for filming.

He will work with Yuan Heping to create the comic film "Dart Man: The Wind Rises in the Desert".

It was learned that "Dart Man" will be launched in the desert Xinjiang in July, due to the hot weather, to prevent the play from throwing out the hood, so from now on to bring your own style.

So, let's first learn about "Dartman".

In July 2015, the hard-core martial arts comic "Dart Man" created by cartoonist Xu Xianzhe was serialized on the "New Comics" platform.

The story of this comic is set in the late Sui and early Tang Dynasties, telling the story of the dart man Dao Ma who received an escort mission in the desert of the Western Regions.

The comic "Dart Man" quickly attracted a large number of readers and was widely praised for its exquisite painting style and relaxed plot, as well as the martial arts spirit it conveyed.

Subsequently, the goose factory got the animation adaptation copyright, and in June 2023, 15 episodes of the animation of the same name will be broadcast online, and it will achieve a high reputation of 8.3 points on Douban, and "Dart Man" has become a beautiful landscape in the national comic industry.

At the same time, the manga film version of "Dart Man" has also passed the project, and the screenwriter Yang Zi and Xiamen Yuan Heping Film Co., Ltd. have created it, and now with Wu Jing joining, it is equivalent to adding wings to the tiger.

The manga "Dart Man" has caused a sensation in the Japanese comic industry, and after the expansion of the anime version, the fan base has gradually grown, and the IP effect has slowly formed, and the anime is still being updated.

I have to say that Wu Jing's business sense of smell is unmatched! At present, it has been revealed that there are three investors in "Dartman", in addition to Yuan Heping's own company, Alibaba Pictures and Wu Jing's Dengfeng Pictures.

In other words, Wu Jing will join the group with pay, and throughout the years, all the movies in which Wu Jing has participated in paid and personally participated have been successful, such as "The Wandering Earth", "The Climber", "Changjin Lake", "Megalodon 2", etc.

In this way, is there any reason why the manga movie version of "Dartman" does not explode?

3. Wu Jing revealed the grapevine, with him joining, the box office is guaranteed to be 2 billion.

The most surprising thing about "Kowloon Walled City" is the inheritance of three generations, the older generation has Sammo Hung in charge, the middle-aged generation has Louis Koo, Lin Feng, Ren Xianqi and Wu Yunlong, etc., and the younger generation has Liu Junqian, Zhang Wenjie and Hu Zitong, which gives us hope for Hong Kong films.

That's right, the manga "Dart Man" also needs a team to create, in addition to Wu Jing, it was revealed that Nicholas Tse and Wang Hedi will join the starring role, the heroine has not yet been released, but the animated version of Baby Xiaoqi dubbing Wan Qian has a high voice.

In addition, Wu Jing also revealed a grapevine that heavyweights will be invited to participate in this movie, and they are also seniors. As soon as the news was exposed, fans were not calm, and they speculated who the big coffee Wu Jing was talking about?

Now the actors who are still mixing in the action circle are at the level of big names, and there are only a few people who keep in touch with Wu Jing.

We use the method of elimination.

First of all, those who are contemporaries of him, or younger than him, simply ignore them. Including Zhao Wenzhuo, Xie Miao, An Zhijie, Zhang Jin, Wu Yue, Zou Zhaolong, Shi Xingyu, etc.

Secondly, there are only two people who can be called big names, but will not rashly play supporting roles, Donnie Yen and Jackie Chan. Don't look at Jackie Chan is 70 years old, he is still active on the big screen, and he is the first actor in the summer file "Legend".

Donnie Yen is even more impossible, his film appointments are scheduled until 2030, not to mention Huang Baiming's many movies, and several Hollywood movies are waiting for him to shoot, it is impossible to find time to play supporting roles.

In the end, only Sammo Hung and Jet Li remained.

Sammo Hung and Wu Jing cooperated as early as the first "Slaying the Wolf", and starred in "Kowloon Walled City".

This time, he has to go to Xinjiang to shoot on the spot, and the local temperature will reach more than 40 degrees in summer, which may be unbearable for his body, and the probability of participating in "Dart Man" is not large.

Then, there is only the kung fu emperor Jet Li, since he collaborated with Liu Yifei on that Hollywood movie, Jet Li has been in a state of retirement, as Wu Jing's fellow brother, if he fights on the big screen again, it will definitely set off a frenzy.

In fact, we also hope to see Jet Li's chic action scenes in the cinema, after all, he is a representative of the times. If it's really Jet Li, with a box office of 2 billion, that's not to mention.

IV. Conclusion.

Comic movie, "Kowloon Walled City" has been successful, and the next thing to watch is Wu Ershan's "Under the Alien", whether it can bring the wind of Chinese martial arts to fire again, it takes a few box office hits to ignite it.

Wu Jing's high-profile entry into "Dart Man" may follow Chen Kexin's example and make an all-star lineup martial arts film, invite all those who can play, and feast the eyes of fans.

From the start of filming of "Dart Man" in July to the post-production theater, the schedule should be the Spring Festival file in 2025, as long as the quality is comparable to Lu Yang's "Embroidered Spring Knife", plus the mysterious celebrity, the box office of 2 billion is stable.

We hope that the live-action version of "Dart Man" will be a great success and push Chinese comics to a new level.

Do you think the big guy Wu Jing said is Jet Li?

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