Wu Jing and Andy Lau met again.
In 2023's "The Wandering Earth 2", they will work together again.
Imagine 10 years ago, Wu Jing was still a supporting role, and Andy Lau was the absolute protagonist.
They had a fight in a movie that cost nearly 200 million yuan, who would have thought that 10 years later, the two would join forces again and become a big event in the Chinese film industry.
At that time, the director Chen Musheng, who worked with them, had already died in a hurry, not taking away a cloud.
Probably after filming the 2003 version of "Ghost of a Woman", the 29-year-old Wu Jing felt that it was not interesting to make these TV series all the time, so he decided to go to the Hong Kong film industry to develop.
This choice is very correct.
Although Hong Kong films at that time were beginning to decline, they were still second to none in the Chinese film industry to talk about kung fu and action genre films. At least there are more people willing to shoot action scenes than in the mainland.
Wu Jing came from a martial arts family and won some martial arts championships in the 90s. In 1995, he was excavated by Yuan Heping, starred in "Kung Fu Kid Breaks through the Love Pass", became the protagonist from the beginning, and also cooperated with the goddess Zhong Liti, thus starting his acting career.
Go over there, he can play to his strengths, and can follow the country's top action film filmmakers to learn some hard goods.
Yuan Heping looked for him to cultivate the next Jet Li, but the teenager Wu Jing did not go to Hong Kong to develop, but chose to stay in the mainland to shoot.
Missing the last golden age of Hong Kong cinema, when Wu Jing went to Hong Kong, the production of Hong Kong films fell sharply, and even kung fu films and action movies were no longer as brilliant as they were then.
This directly leads to a problem, it is difficult to find a scene.
Released in May 2003, "Drunken Horse Horse" was led by the righteous brothers Liu Jialiang and Liu Jiahui, but this Kind of Shaw Kung Fu Film has long been outdated, and Wu Jing, who can be regarded as the main actor, cannot use this movie to win more contracts for himself.
The harsh reality is that for the next whole year, he could not receive a single play in Hong Kong.
He was looking for major production companies, but he couldn't have a chance, if he continued like this, the final outcome would only be to return home, and perhaps, he would have to transform to continue to be an actor.
Fortunately, at that time, his agent Huang Baigao, because he hated the film company and did not look for his artists to shoot, simply invested in movies at his own expense.
Just when he cast an action movie, he let Wu Jing act.
Despite being a "special performance" with only one line, Wu Jing was very excited. He waited so long to fight for a breath, not to mention, he can also cooperate with Hong Kong film first-line actors such as Hong Jinbao, Ren Dahua and Zhen Zidan.
This cooperation he saw the improvisational skills of Hong Kong filmmakers, originally everyone came according to the designed action, but he did not expect that the director named Ye Weixin suddenly wanted Wu Jing and Zhen Zidan to really fight.
If you really hit, you will inevitably accidentally hit someone, and Wu Jing took a few sticks to complete the play.
Years later, his street fight with Zhen Zidan was regarded as a classic of Chinese action movies, and the whole movie was the most representative of this scene.
That's right, it's 2005's Kill the Wolf.
This film directly changed Wu Jing's fate.
The following year he was immediately given the opportunity to be the protagonist, and it is said that the play was tailor-made for him by director Luo Shouyao, and the story was inspired by his experience of wandering in Hong Kong.
However, due to the fact that the plot was too dark, it was still tragically deleted when it was released in the mainland, and the box office response was not good, and Wu Jingzheng failed to succeed and had to continue to play a supporting role.
In 2007, "The True Colors of Boys" found him, and the role was similar to that in "Kill the Wolf", and he was also a powerful villain.
Of course, this time the scene is more.
The difference is that only Xie Tingfeng has practiced this cooperation, and others like Yu Wenle are not good at making action movies, which is very testing for Wu Jing.
Because his force is small, the drama is not in place, and if the force is large, it is easy to hurt people.
The crew is definitely looking for the right person, Tse Tingfeng is praising Wu Jing's strength and accuracy, and many times it is a one-time shooting. With his outstanding performance, Wu Jing was encouraged by the Golden Horse Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor.
After this time, he really gained a foothold in the Hong Kong film industry.
In 2008, in addition to following Jet Li to Hollywood to shoot "The Mummy 3", he also got the opportunity to become a director, and co-directed "Wolf's Tooth" with Li Zhongzhi, which laid the foundation for him to become a director in the future.
However, there are more films, and there is a challenge of word of mouth.
At that time, Hong Kong action movies tried to transform and find new ways, one of which was to integrate science fiction elements.
Wu Jing followed the trend and filmed "Robot Man" and "Whole City Alert", but unfortunately the word of mouth was not good.
The road of science fiction does not work, and director Chen Musheng immediately turned around and wanted to shoot another version of "Shaolin Temple" with a new angle.
Chen Musheng is one of Wu Jing's important Bole in the Hong Kong film industry, and the directors of "The True Colors of Boys" and "Whole City Alert" are all him.
In this "New Shaolin Temple", Wu Jing played the master brother of the Shaolin Temple, and Andy Lau was the protagonist, who fell into the Shaolin Temple, so he staged a fight with Wu Jing.
However, the film's box office reputation ended in failure.
Wu Jing, who had the opportunity to take the opportunity to return to the mainland market, failed to make a name for himself, and in 2012, he went back to take over the drama "I Am the Blade of the Special Forces Out of the Sheath", and the response was also general.
In fact, he was trying an idea of his own.
Use military themes to fuse action movies.
Hong Kong action movies could not find a way out, and he decided to use his own way to open up a new path for Chinese action movies.
After 3 years, in addition to starring in "Kill the Wolf 2", he also brought a self-directed and self-acting "Wolf Warrior".
In the end, the box office of 525 million yuan was decent, but this did not make Wu Jing give up.
Because he has been in the Hong Kong film industry for so long, he knows the importance of persistence.
There is still a chance to persevere.
If you don't stick to it, you're a failure.
Before "Wolf Warrior 2", he also took over two Hong Kong films, "Journey to the West 3" and "Dangerous City", and unconsciously he has been struggling for 13 years in Hong Kong films.
So much so that there has been a controversy on the Internet that he does not belong to the Hong Kong circle.
This experience has brought him an invaluable wealth.
First, the spirit of hard work and persistence;
Second, the advanced shooting technology and techniques of Hong Kong action films;
Third, the connections in the Hong Kong circle.
"Wolf Warrior 2" He tried his best and wealth, personally acted as a director to control the big scenes, invited Hong Kong film experienced cinematography, editing, action direction, the heroine Lu Jingshan is his first time as a director of "Wolf's Teeth" cooperation, these are more or less thanks to his experience in Hong Kong film period.
Therefore, it is not an exaggeration to say that Hong Kong movies have made Wu Jing and achieved "Wolf Warrior 2".