Rebirth of Xiangjiang - 1978

"Have you heard? Yuan Biao's box office this time is not as expected. Jiahe is planning to support a martial arts star. I heard that that person is Jackie Chan."

"No way, Jackie Chan's "Snake" only received 2.7 million, and he is also Luo Wei's employee, how can Jiahe praise him?"

"Why not? There are rumors that Jackie Chan's new drama "Drunken Master" will definitely beat "The Karate Kid" at the box office, and even Golden Harvest is very optimistic about Jackie Chan."

Golden Harvest's Ax Mountain Road studio, and Shaw Brothers' Clearwater Bay studio, there has suddenly been an additional rumor coming out in the past few days.

Everyone is rumoring that because the box office of Yuen Biao's "The Kung Fu Kid" was not as good as expected, Chou Wenhuai and He Guanchang plan to promote another martial arts star.

Now, the only martial arts star behind Yuen Biao is Jackie Chan, who previously won 2.7 million box office with "Snake".

At first, neither Jiahe nor the Hong family class took this seriously.

But precisely because they ignored the rumor, the incident became more and more widespread.

Even later, everyone thought that Jiahe's failure to respond was tantamount to acquiescing to the matter.

"You go find some reporters to explain it and put this rumor to rest as soon as possible."

After a few days, Zou Wenhuai finally couldn't bear it anymore. He was worried that if this rumor continued to spread, Sammo Hung and Yuen Biao would believe it to be true.

But the strange thing is that after Zou Wenhuai finished speaking, He Guanchang did not agree immediately.

"Mr. Zou, I think this rumor is actually not a bad thing for us."

Upon hearing this, Zou Wenhuai suddenly raised his head and looked at the other party, because He Guanchang's words made him mistakenly believe that he was the one who spread the rumor.

"Mr. Zou misunderstood. This rumor has nothing to do with me. I just want to use this rumor to see who has more potential, Yuan Biao or Jackie Chan."

In fact, after Jackie Chan's "Snake" won 2.7 million at the box office, He Guanchang began to pay attention to this young man.

Only later, because of Yuan Biao's emergence, did he give up the idea of ​​signing Jackie Chan.

But what I didn't expect was that Yuan Biao's second film actually showed a clear downward trend, which made He Guanchang turn his attention to Jackie Chan again.

"Do you think Jackie Chan is better than Yuan Biao?"

Zou Wenhuai found He Guanchang's idea incredible, because no matter how bad Yuan Biao was, he still got at least five million at the box office.

Jackie Chan only has one film "Snake" that he can handle. No matter how you look at it, you should continue to praise Yuan Biao. There is no reason to switch to Jackie Chan.

"Mr. Zou misunderstood me. I never thought about giving up Yuan Biao. I just think Jackie Chan has great potential. Why can't we include him in Jiahe?"

After listening to He Guanchang's words, Zou Wenhuai showed a thoughtful expression. He did not directly object, but seemed to be a little moved.

"If we only rely on Yuan Biao now, if something happens to him, we won't even have a replacement."

It has to be said that because of Bruce Lee's sudden death, Zou Wenhuai's dream of entering Hollywood was abruptly cut off.

For him, this is the biggest regret in his life, not being able to join hands with him to break into Hollywood.

The inability to spread Xiangjiang movies to the world has always been something that Zou Wenhuai cannot let go of.

In fact, Zou Wenhuai has been looking for an actor who can replace Bruce Lee these years, but unfortunately he has never been able to find someone who can compare with Bruce Lee.

At this time, Yuan Biao suddenly appeared, giving Zou Wenhuai hope.

He originally wanted to lift Yuen Biao up and take him to Hollywood to make him a martial arts superstar in the Chinese world.

However, the box office performance of "The Karate Kid" was not as good as expected, which was a wake-up call for Zou Wenhuai.

If Jiahe really invests all its resources in Yuan Biao, it seems to be a very risky thing now.

"Then what are you going to do?"

After Zou Wenhuai thought about it, he wanted to hear what He Guanchang planned to do.

"It's very simple. Let Yuan Biao's "Mr. Zan and Zhao Qianhua" compete with Jackie Chan's "Drunken Master" to see who is more popular."

Zou Wenhuai never expected that He Guanchang would want to make the two films compete. Doing so would definitely affect their box office revenue.

If the person standing opposite was not He Guanchang, Zou Wenhuai might have thought that the other person had gone crazy.

"No matter how bad Yuen Biao is, he can still win at least five million. Do you think "Drunken Master" can win more than Yuan Biao's new film?"

Zou Wenhuai was very suspicious of this. If he hadn't known that He Guanchang was very optimistic about Jackie Chan, he would have even suspected that the other party wanted to use this trick to destroy Jackie Chan.

He Guanchang smiled and shook his head. Although he had confidence in Jackie Chan, it was not the kind of blind trust.

"If Jackie Chan wins, it will be more convincing to recruit him. Even if he loses, it doesn't matter. At least it will be easier to talk to Luo Wei when poaching him."

He Guanchang is interested in Jackie Chan's future, so the success of Drunken Master will not have any impact on his idea of ​​recruiting Jackie Chan.

Unless "Drunken Master" only earns tens of thousands at the box office, then He Guanchang will immediately give up the idea of ​​recruiting Jackie Chan, but this is obviously impossible.

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"What? The schedule of "Drunken Master" will be postponed by a month? Why?"

When Wu Siyuan received a call from He Guanchang, he felt baffled. It was clearly promised to be released in October, but why was it suddenly moved to November?

"I really can't arrange the October schedule, so please forgive me, brother Siyuan."

"Mr. He, are you kidding me? We had already agreed to release it in October, why did we suddenly change our minds now?"

Wu Siyuan is not a newcomer. He is already experienced in the film industry. How could he be fooled by He Guanchang's two sentences?

He knew very well that He Guanchang had a purpose in doing this, and the other party would never move "Drunken Master" to November without any reason.

"Brother Siyuan, don't be angry, because there are several movies to be released in October, and if they are all clustered together, it will affect the box office, so I moved "Drunken Master" to a good schedule. I did this for your own good.

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Wu Siyuan didn't believe He Guanchang's lies. He originally planned to get to the bottom of it and find out what purpose He Guanchang and the others had in doing this.

But it was a pity that He Guanchang did not tell him the truth, but kept insisting that it was for his own good, and in the end the two could only break up on bad terms.

"What's going on?"

After putting down the phone, Wu Siyuan still couldn't figure out why He Guanchang insisted on moving "Drunken Master" to November?

He had already inquired before and found that Jiahe did not have any strong films to be released in October, so he chose to have "Drunken Master" released in October.

And just a few days later, Wu Siyuan, who was puzzled, finally found the real reason why "Drunken Master" suddenly changed gears.

"He Guanchang, this bastard, actually wants "Drunken Master" to compete with Yuan Biao's "Mr. Zan and Looking for Money"..."