In 1998, "The Bodhi Patriarch" Liu Zhenwei announced the filming of "The Great Master", with Stephen Chow playing Bruce Lee, Yen Zidan as Ip Man, and the action director Yuan Kui. Donnie Yen has already received the deposit, and he was busy reading the materials to practice Wing Chun, but in the end the movie was not over. There are two versions of the reason. Liu Zhenwei said that at that moment he was tired of work and wanted to quit the film industry and go to Canada to spend time with his wife and children. The media revealed that the copyright of the film belonged to Liu Zhenwei's friend Wang Jiawei. The cast and shooting plan unilaterally announced by Liu Zhenwei were not recognized by Wang Jiawei. The two had a disagreement, and they had to shelve their uncompromising. Eighteen years later, Master Xing failed to play Bruce Lee, the only idol in his heart, for various reasons.
Since the 1980s, Jackie Chan planned to shoot "Fire Fighting Heroes", telling the heroic story of firefighters. At that time, the director mentioned in the propaganda was Xu Xiaoming. After a few years, it was changed to Tang Jili. There was a passage in the middle that said Jackie Chan directed and acted himself. In 2013, he changed hands to the mainland director Ding Sheng. Thirty years later, Jackie Chan never forgets this, but he still only hears the stairs. I don’t know if we can see this movie appear before Jackie Chan retires from the film world?
In the nineties of last century, when Xiang Huaqiang's Yongsheng company was in its heyday, it was home to three superstars Jet Li, Stephen Chow and Andy Lau. In order to open up the Japanese market, he has repeatedly negotiated with Japanese filmmakers to gather three big coffees to co-produce the giant costume "Red Cliff" with the theme of the Three Kingdoms. The director invited Tsui Hark. In terms of role configuration, Jet Li played Zhao Yun, the general of Changsheng, Zhou Xingchi played Zhuge Liang, a strategist, and Andy Lau played the suave governor Zhou Yu. Thinking about this lineup, people are very much looking forward to it, but the ending is no news.
In the 1960s, after Hu Jinquan completed the masterpiece "The Drunk Man" for Shaw Brothers, there was also a "Spy 113" filming, which is a film describing the story of Yoshiko Kawashima. It was produced by Jin Fei who just debuted ( She later became the wife of Shaw's director Sun Zhong) as the female No. 1 Yoshiko Kawashima. Yan Jun is the male lead, but a few days after filming started, director Hu Jinquan suddenly left, causing the film to be shelved. The reason is said to be because Hu Jinquan and his boss Shaw had a disagreement over the script at the time, and they left with anger. Besides, this script is not the "Spy 113" being filmed, but the "Dragon Inn" after Hu Jinquan left the Shaw Brothers and transferred to the Federation of Taiwan.
In 1988, Wong Kar-wai wrote and directed "Carmen in Mong Kok", which was well received at the box office. As a result, the 1990s "A Fei Zheng Chuan" received strong support from Deng Guangrong, with great momentum and excellent conditions: big-name celebrities, Christmas Important schedules, two theaters are screened together...Unexpectedly, the box office of "A Fei Zheng Chuan" has a disastrous box office, and the big compensation has made the original planned sequel hopeless. The appearance of Liang Chaowei at the end of the film has become the biggest in film history. The mystery.
In May 2001, Jiahe prepared for three years and spent 50 million yuan in the new film "108+" which was supposed to start shooting in the mainland, but the shooting plan was finally shelved indefinitely due to the approval of the mainland shooting. Director Chen Musheng, starring Guo Fucheng, Chen Kelly, Li Cansen, Wu Yanzu, Edison Chen... I missed the opportunity. The approval was not approved because of plots that undermine the image of law enforcement officers and promote violent superstition in the script.
In 2004, Tsui Hark deliberately put Brigitte Lin’s legendary life on the screen to prepare for the filming of Brigitte Lin, and Brigitte Lin was also moved by agreeing to write an autobiography and provide first-hand information. He also locked Cecilia Cheung as the heroine, but then Tsui Hark again said that Brigitte Lin was under great pressure. , Refused to adapt his own story, so the shooting ended up stranded.
