Jackie Chan, once the highest achiever in the Chinese film world, every work is box office guarantee, but this year, Jackie Chan's light is no longer, even out of the 2024 Spring Festival.
With the Spring Festival approaching, Lunar New year films will be released one after another this week, including Mr. Red carpet starring Andy Lau, Zhang Yimou's "Article 21" and Jia Ling's new film "Hot Hot". However, Jackie Chan's Legend seems to have disappeared and never appeared in the prime time for the Lunar New year.
It is reported that Legend, a sequel to the 2005 film Myth, began filming in Xinjiang in March last year. In addition to Jackie Chan's return with director Tang Jili, Gulinazza was also invited to be female number one, as well as Li Chen, Li Zhiting and Zhang Yixing.
At that time, it was pointed out that in the "Legend" plot, Jackie Chan and Gu Lina, the first beauty in Xinjiang, 38 years younger than him, played CP, which was ridiculed by netizens at that time, like "Grandpa and Sun Love", which was a mismatch. The film attracted a lot of discussion before filming began.Now, the film bid farewell to the Spring Festival, many netizens have complained: "80 years old can be 18 years old, no one to watch." Kung fu movies are out of date. " "I have only myself to blame for the chaos in my private life and the disgust of the audience."There are netizens said: "non-stop fried rice, poor image, box office naturally poor."In fact, the shrinking box office of Jackie Chan's New year films has a lot to do with the turmoil he has encountered since 2017. In the final analysis, the main reason is that he and Wu Qili's illegitimate daughter, Wu Zhuolin, grew up and made a series of words and deeds that aroused heated discussion in public opinion.Wu Zhuolin's various rebellious behaviors made the outside world think that it was mainly caused by her lack of fatherly love and a complete family in her childhood.Over the years, Jackie Chan has said nothing to Wu Zhuolin, still less will he publicly admit that she is his daughter. However, the biological daughter is always the biological daughter, with broken bones and tendons, and all the subsequent actions of Wu Zhuolin are tied up with Jackie Chan. The more outrageous Wu Zhuolin's behavior is, the more negative impact it will have on Jackie Chan.Jackie Chan, now 70, has been a regular during the Spring Festival more than 30 years ago. Red Fan District, which partnered with Anita Mui in 1995, broke the box office record for foreign language films in North America.In 1996, "the simple Task of Police Story 4" set a new box office record for many countries in Southeast Asia, topped the annual box office of a Chinese-language film at that time, and broke the record set by "Red Fan District" at the box office of Hong Kong in history, becoming the highest box office in Hong Kong in the 20th century.
Who am I in 1998 and the Zodiac in 2013 did well at the box office.
But since 2017, Jackie Chan's New year's movies have gone from bad to worse. "Kung Fu Yoga" grossed $1.7 billion in 2017, while "Pu Songling" in 2018 grossed only 160 million, a Waterloo at the box office.
Among them, several films aimed at the Spring Festival release, such as "Vanguard" and last year's "Dragon Horse Spirit", could not enter the prime time, and they only grossed 287 million and 211 million at the box office at the end of their release.
When the Spirit of Dragon and Horse was released last year, Jackie Chan revealed his feelings in an interview: "I also wanted to find a second Jackie Chan, but it was very difficult and the market didn't need it." No matter how good kung fu is useless, you must be good-looking now. You don't have to be good at acting, just stand there. "
However, with regard to Jackie Chan's knowledge of kung fu, Zheng Peipei revealed when he appeared on the talk show ten years ago that Jackie Chan is not really good at kung fu, but just fancy fists. With one word, Jackie Chan fell off the altar.In 2024, Jackie Chan is about to celebrate his 70th birthday. After breaking through the Chinese film industry and Hollywood, this generation of kung fu action stars in their twilight years was unable to reach new heights, and he was saddened to see that he began to go downhill.
As a filmmaker, he won the award so softly that he even took home the most valuable Oscar in the world, but now he is facing the dilemma that he can't get into the Lunar New year festival. I made a lot of money in filming in my early years, and if I go on filming like this, I may lose my doubts about my life. I wonder if Brother Jackie Chan will go all the way along the road of movies in the future.