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'The Forbidden Kingdom': Q&A with Martial Arts Master Jackie Chan
'The Forbidden Kingdom': Q&A with Martial Arts Master Jackie Chan
By Fred Topel, Special to Hollywood.com
In China,
Jackie Chan
is the movie star but in his American movies, he usually plays straight man to his more comic co-stars, such as
Rush Hour
’s
Chris Tucker
and
Shanghai Knights
’s
Owen Wilson
.
But in
The Forbidden Kingdom
, he pairs up with another famous martial artist,
Jet Li
for the first time. They play kung fu masters training a modern-day American teen, who has been transported back in time to feudal China. Over the course of the film, the two legends fight each other, and alongside each other to help defeat mystical villains. Here’s what Chan had to say about the experience:
Hollywood.com: What took you so long to finally work with
Jet Li
?
Jackie Chan:
Fifteen years ago I wrote a script with him and the script was very interesting. I am the bad guy, he is the cop. He had to chase me around from bottom of Russia all the way back to Beijing. In between, something happened and even the police are looking for
Jet Li
. The bad guy is looking for
Jet Li
, then the police are looking for me. When
Jet Li
caught me, I had to get rid of him. And we cannot take the plane, we cannot take the train, we cannot take any ordinary transportation. We have to walk on the mountains, cross the river, different regions of China. There was a lot of comedy going on, lots of travel, lot of great action.
HW: What happened to that project?
JC:
When I present the script to an American writer, he didn’t like it. The company had spent another million for him to rewrite the script. After he wrote the script, I didn’t like it. He made it two brothers. Somehow I don’t know he’s my brother, but then I know he’s my brother. He just wanted money. He just wanted to get paid for the script. So this is why it doesn’t happen.
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