Hong Kong action superstar Jackie Chan is now 70 years old and is still active in front of the fluorescent screen, the new movie "Legend" was released on July 10, which is a sequel to "Myth" in 2005, but it is worth noting that due to the time and space setting of the plot, the crew specially used AI technology to rejuvenate Jackie Chan to 27 years old, but the effect was not as expected, resulting in Jackie Chan's facial expression as weird as a dummy, so that the audience watched the criticism beyond the play.
"Legend" is a sequel to the movie "Myth" launched after 19 years, inviting Cheng Long and the young generation of first-line actors Zhang Yixing, Guli Nazha and other starring roles, telling a past life love that spans thousands of years, and the main creative team has spent about 350 million yuan to produce, hoping to become a blockbuster movie like the previous work.
However, because the plot involves different time and space backgrounds, the crew used a lot of AI technology to "rejuvenate" Jackie Chan, allowing him to return to the appearance of 27 years old, only to see that his face has no obvious wrinkles, and his skin has become firm, but his expression seems to be a little weird, so that netizens can't help but give negative comments on the AI part, "Jackie Chan himself is doing well, AI face swapping is too bad", "Jackie Chan AI face swapping is embarrassing, and he can only score 2 points compared with "Myth", "Sometimes, people have to serve the old", "AI young Jackie Chan's face is particularly strange, The whole process is honey smiling, like sticking an emoji."
Popularity overturned? "Legend" became box office poison
"Legend" was originally scheduled to be released on the 12th, but due to the low pre-sale popularity, it premiered yesterday (10), but I didn't expect the box office to be only 610,000 yuan in 9 hours, and the popularity plummeted, "Legend" not only couldn't squeeze into the top 5, but even the top 10 couldn't touch the top.
"Legend" can be called the most heavyweight blockbuster in this year's summer schedule, jointly produced by a number of film companies, but the box office of the premiere was miserable, and some film critics sighed: "There is no hope for the movie to return to its original cost, and Jackie Chan's charm is lost." ”
2005's "Myth" starring Jackie Chan, Leung Ka-fai, and Kim Hee-sun is also a love story about martial arts fantasy, with thrilling plots and superb visual action scenes, becoming the third highest-grossing film in Hong Kong that year, and was nominated for 4 awards at the Hong Kong Film Awards that year.