Chapter 1805 1807 [Plan A]
Jackie Chan then flipped through the script and immediately fell in love with it.
The story of "Project A" is very exciting. It tells the story of Ma Rulong, an upright and brave instructor, Hong Tianci, an upright and brave instructor, and Zhuo Yifei, a hero who is both righteous and evil.
This story is completely different from the routines of feud, martial arts, and revenge in previous kung fu movies.
It is similar to "Police Story", the only difference is that "Police Story" takes place in a modern city, while "Plan A" takes place in the late Qing Dynasty.
Since "Police Story" can be popular, "Plan A" must be the same.
So Jackie Chan likes this script very much, and is very grateful to Xiang Nan for his contribution, "Mr. Ning, thank you for giving me such a good script, I like it so much."
"As long as you like it." Xiang Nan nodded, "Then make preparations as soon as possible."
"Okay." Jackie Chan nodded.
…
Xiang Nan then submitted the project to Golden Harvest for review.
Jiahe was also very satisfied after watching it. Although the investment in this film is a bit large, more than seven million Hong Kong dollars, but considering Jackie Chan's performance in the past year, they think the risk is worth taking.
If Jackie Chan can be popular, then Golden Harvest will have a second action superstar. Moreover, since there are three male leads in this film, Golden Harvest is also planning to cast Sammo Hung as one of them.
Sammo Hung is a free man. He has previously filmed films for Golden Harvest such as "Monk Sande and Chongmi Liu", "Mr. Zan and Changqianhua", "Lin Shirong", and "The Miscellaneous Boy". But he has also collaborated with Mai Jia in "Salted Fish Reborn", "Tiger Frog", "Face and Heart" and so on.
Jiahe didn't pay much attention to him. Because it already had Xiang Nan at that time, his box office appeal alone was far better than the others, so Golden Harvest didn't pay much attention to Sammo Hung.
After all, Golden Harvest still had many talents such as the Yuan Brothers and Xu Brothers. Sammo Hung is considered talented, but not indispensable.
However, "Beware of Little Hands", which was released at the beginning of the year, won more than 10 million Hong Kong dollars at the box office, and it was screened in the Golden Princess Cinema. This made Golden Harvest notice the value of Sammo Hung, so they are willing to make great efforts to recruit him. .
This "Plan A" needs three protagonists, and it just happened to be him. In this way, Golden Harvest has more talents, and Sammo Hung can also star in big productions, which can be said to be the best of both worlds.
After receiving the invitation, Sammo Hung readily agreed.
On the one hand, after all, he and Jiahe have been in love with each other for many years. After Bruce Lee's death that year, Xiangjiang kung fu movies were not popular at one time, and all movies that tried to imitate Bruce Lee all hit the street.
Sammo Hung was having a hard time at the time, and even considered changing careers to become a chef. At that time, it was Golden Harvest who gave him monthly funding to allow him to spend those years.
And Sammo Hung is a very loyal and nostalgic person. With this kindness, it is naturally difficult for him to refuse Jiahe's solicitation.
On the one hand, Sammo Hung is a character who is used to being a big brother, but Princess Jin doesn't think much of him, and she doesn't plan to let him start his own company. He is unwilling to join New Art City or Yongjia as a younger brother.
After all, it is one thing to be loyal, but another thing to be a younger brother. He told Mai Jia and Chen Xunqi that loyalty is fine, but he must never be inferior to others.
But Golden Harvest promised him that he could set up a film industry by himself, so Sammo Hung was naturally more willing to cooperate with Golden Harvest.
After Sammo Hung joined "Project A", he also brought his junior brother Yuan Biao over and recommended him to play the third male lead, Hong Tianci.
Sammo Hung is also very worthy of this junior, and praises him for making "Lin Shirong", "Miscellaneous Boys", "Tiger and Frog" and many other movies, which makes him popular even if he is not too old.
The three heroines are ready, so the filming officially started.
…
In April, "Best Partner" was announced.
Xiang Nan is also preparing to leave for Hollywood to film the new movie "The Dragon King 2".
This film is still written by Xiang Nan, and it tells the story of a student of Professor Li who came back to the city and used Jeet Kune Do to form a gang, dominate one party, and even infiltrate evil forces into the school.
In the end, the protagonist Daniel relied on the Jeet Kune Do ultimate move taught by Li Mi to defeat the disciple and return the story of peace.
The routines of this kind of hero growth movies are actually similar, and they are basically divided into three steps, acquiring ability, reflecting ability, and mastering ability.
For example, in the "Iron Man" trilogy, in the first part Tony became Iron Man and gained superhuman abilities; in the second part, he began to reflect on his own abilities, whether it brought hope or destruction;
In the third part, even though he lost his steel suit, he still mustered up his courage and used his wisdom to defeat his opponents, proving that even without his steel suit, he was still a hero, which sublimated his spirit...
In this three-step strategy, setting up a villain with comparable abilities for the protagonist but acting evil is a very common routine.
In the "Spider-Man" trilogy, there is a dark Spider-Man possessed by venom; in the "Iron Man" trilogy, there is a whip that can also build an ark; in the "Captain America" trilogy, there is also a serum injected The Red Skull and Winter Soldier; there are more powerful abominations in "The Incredible Hulk"; the evil General Zod in "Superman: Man of Steel"...
Xiang Nan is also very familiar with these routines, so in the second part, he set up an opponent for himself, who is more capable than himself, and acts more fiercely than himself... Only in this way can the situation of two strong confrontation be interesting.
Otherwise, in the first film, the protagonist has already dominated the campus. If the second film does not have a strong opponent, then the movie will be too worthless.
…
This script, Xiang Nan, had been handed over to Warner for review at the beginning of the year.
After Warner reviewed it, he said there was no problem.
There is just one little trouble, and that is how the heroine handles it.
The previous heroine was Brooke Shields, and her salary was relatively expensive. The last time I used her, I was also worried that Xiang Nan would not be able to support the box office, so I let Brooke Shields support the scene.
But now that Xiang Nan has enough popularity and box office appeal, naturally there is no need to hire Brooke Shields. That way, you can save a fortune.
Xiang Nan has nothing to do with this.
He has an affair with Brooke Shields but has no selfish relationship, and she is fine. He has no objection to changing other actors.
So Warner set out to select new characters.
"Charles, are you going to dump me?" That night, Xiang Nan received a call from Brooke Shields.
"How did you say that? Why did you get dumped?" Xiang Nan asked puzzled.
They haven't been together at all, so how can they get rid of it?
(end of this chapter)