Chapter 955 Feeling Pretty Good (Make up for Yesterday)

Chapter 955: Feeling pretty good...(make up for yesterday)

The "Five Lucky Stars" series Golden Harvest actually had a cold season. In 1996, it recruited Sammo Hung, Eric Tsang, Ng Yiu-han, Feng Suifan, Miu Qiaowei, Chen Baixiang, Zheng Peipei, Chen Guantai, Cao Dahua, Yip Fanghua, Peng Dan, Gong Xuehua, Lu Guanting, Long Fang, Mars, Cheng Kuian , Taibao, Ye Rongzu, Yuan Qiongdan, Yuan Xiangren and others compiled a film "Five Lucky Stars for Luck and Fortune"...

Unfortunately, the box office was only HK$2.08 million...

A record low in the series!

You must know that the last movie "Five Lucky Stars Collide with Ghosts" also took in a box office of 8.28 million Hong Kong dollars!

The "Five Lucky Stars" series has supported many movies, such as the "Chasing Girls" series (five movies, "Best Bad Friend" and "Hardcover Chasing Girls") in which Wang Jing followed the trend and made jokes with a bunch of young losers.

To put it simply, "Fantasy Girl" was actually originally called "Romantic Star", starring Chow Yun-fat and Maggie Cheung, and was produced by Yineng Entertainment...

Back then, when gangsters were prevalent, you had Chow Yun-fat and Cheung Manyu. You couldn't ignore the gangsters who thought they could make money, and they kept coming to ask for shares.

Then it was handed over to Wang Jing to direct. The original beautiful love story plot was transformed into a popular comedy under his hands, and was renamed "Hardcover Chasing Girls".

The cast retained Chow Yun-fat and Maggie Cheung's money-grabbing signatures, and added Feng Suifan, Chen Baixiang, and Eric Tsang to take on the hilarious scenes. There were also rose stars such as Zhang Min, Jiang Liping, Kwan Xiumei, and Cheng Yuling to support the scene. The storyline suddenly became more exciting.

It was released at the end of June 1987 and grossed HK$21.7 million in four weeks, ranking fifth this year.

In the second part, because Chow Yun-fat was not scheduled, Andy Lau from the Entertainment Group played the male lead, and the female lead was replaced by the new Miss Hong Kong runner-up Li Meifeng.

"Chasing Girls 2" was released for four weeks and earned HK$17 million at the box office. Although it was slightly lower than the previous film, the box office after it was released in Taiwan, China, the following month was better than the first film...

So we started filming the third part...

Until the fifth part, Wang Jing really couldn't spare the time - he was filming "God of Gamblers" and left it to Huang Jinghua to take care of it, but Andy Lau failed to star...

The box office revenue was only 13 million, and the sales in the market were not very good...

Yongsheng has concluded this series!

In addition to "Chasing Girls", Jackie Chan's Weihe Company also found the original cast and filmed a series of "The King of Flowers" series, led by Hu Huizhong and featuring all the married brothers. Although it is a low-cost model movie, But they are all very profitable!

Jackie Chan's original words: After the first part was filmed, the investors saw the samples and immediately took the money to start filming the second part...

By the way, the first part of "The Instructor" starring Wang Zhi has sold the Southeast Asian rights and made a small profit...

The mainland is scheduled to be released on April 23. As long as the reputation is good, the sequel will soon follow - "The Instructor" continues the world view of "Black Man", with Shi Nansheng as the producer...

Talking back to the "Five Lucky Stars" series, in fact, two thousand years ago, Sammo Hung and Wang Jing planned a "Super Five Lucky Stars", and the actors and scripts were ready. Unfortunately, Jiahe had no money to film it!

I heard that Sammo Hung proactively proposed to restart "The Five Lucky Stars" because Golden Harvest restarted "The Best Partner"...

Sammo Hung has been quite embarrassed in the past two years. No one has asked him to act...

As an actor, his roles were too limited, and there were always too few suitable roles for Fatty. Later, when he got older, it was difficult to even take the funny route of acting ugly and showing off. Fortunately, he could play roles such as gang bosses. In recent years, he The oranges are basically of this type.

A few years ago, he was approached to be the director of the "Taken" trilogy, and he regained his courage for a while...

But in subsequent "Thugs in Suits", "Slaying the Wolf", etc., it was Qian Jiale who was used...

However, Chung Lifeng arranged two plays by Sammo Hung according to the plot of "Eight Liangs of Gold" - the plot of "Eight Liangs of Gold" is about Chinese New Yorkers returning to the mainland to visit relatives in the countryside. The focus is on local sentiments, and it was changed to "My Grandpa the Agent". That kind of story about Sammo Hung, a mercenary, returning to his hometown. The plot of the first film is based on "Eight Liang Gold" + "Classic Car", with the main focus being action scenes...

It will also be released this summer.

Bringing it back, Sammo Hung still cares about the "Five Lucky Stars" series, but restarting "Five Lucky Stars"... Shen Xudong is not optimistic about it!

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""Lucky Star Tour"... Sammo Hung plans to bring Tony Leung, Yuen Qiu, and Yuen Wah together... plus some of the most popular young actors in the mainland..."

Shen Xudong was quite surprised when he saw the project plan - it really looked like that, so he quickly asked: "Made into a road comedy?"

"...No, Sammo Hung meant that the first half is comedy and the second half is fighting..."

Shen Xudong was speechless: "That's what "Five Lucky Stars Collide with Ghosts" is like. It's a 90-minute movie. The first 40 minutes have been showing the "Five Lucky Stars" "picking up girls", "smooching" and making jokes on the way to travel. It's been an hour," The small story line of "Female Drug Lord" is slowly unfolding. And in the remaining 30 minutes, it is impossible to not only show rich fighting scenes but also take into account the extension of the plot context!"

"You mean to delete the fight scene?"

"What I mean is to find a few screenwriters and redo the script, either as a road comedy, or simply this tour group is investigating the case. The main plot cannot be distracted!"

Zhong Lifang asked: "What do you mean?"

"I have no opinion…"

Shen Xudong waved his hand: "Actually, it would be good to make it into a comedy. Please refer to the French comedy "Welcome to the North"..."

"Use map cannons and stereotypes as creative modules?"

"Yes, Hong Kong movies and TV dramas used to refer to the Mainland as Bei Ku or Daquan Tsai. It can be assumed that these people have never been to the Mainland, and they are full of stereotypes and prejudices against the Mainland..."

Zhong Lifang wondered: "Can a trip change prejudices?"

"Movies are about making dreams...as long as the story is smooth and logical, the rest is left to the audience to judge!"

Zhong Lifang thought about it for a while: "Let me think about it."

"You can think of it...I'm leaving first!"

As he spoke, Shen Xudong turned around and was about to leave. Zhong Lifang immediately asked, "Where are you going?"

"Meet friends!"

"Which friend?"

Shen Xudong said casually: "Huang Baiming and Shi Nansheng!"

"...Then you bring the script of "The Best Partner"..."

Shen Xudong took the book, opened it casually, and asked by the way: "Have you chosen the actor yet?"

"Um…"

"Who?"

"Huang Zihua and Guo Jinan..."

Shen Xudong immediately asked: "Guo Jinan...is it okay?"

"It should be no problem. He is the actor who plays Ya Cha Su in our rebooted version of Once Upon a Time..."

"But the two protagonists are both Hong Kong actors...it doesn't follow the filming rules, right?"

"It's okay, it's better to use Chen as the heroine!"

"Then let me read the script..."