Tsui Hark boasts box-office appeal and is expected to make history as an...

Some time ago, there was news that the Chinese martial arts movie "The Legend of the Eagle Eagles and the Heroes: The Heroes of Chivalry", directed by director Tsui Hark and co-starring Xiao Zhaan and Zhuang Dafei, will be coming to the audience within this year, and they hope that the movie will be aimed at the global market, and will hit the overseas theaters along with the domestic releases.

Director Tsui Hark's statement that he will once again direct a Jin Yong martial arts movie has already attracted the collective attention of many domestic viewers. And when the "Eagle Shooting Heroes: Chivalry" directed by him announced the choice of the main actor, surprisingly, it directly caused a lot of controversy among the domestic audience.

The Legend of the Eagle-Shooting Heroes is the most well-known and influential martial arts novel written by Jin Yong, and Tsui Hark has not touched Jin Yong's novels for more than twenty years. When Tsui Hark again after more than twenty years to direct Jin Yong martial arts movie "Eagle Shooting Heroes: The Greatest of the Great", after the announcement of the starring candidate is Xiao Zhan and Zhuang Dafei, the audience more or less a little worried.

First of all, Xiao Zhan, as a very famous traffic star, his acting skills have not been widely recognized, the audience is very worried that he is difficult to play the role of the protagonist Guo Jing, after all, Guo Jing is Jin Yong's nearly perfect warrior. Secondly, Zhuang Dafei is a newcomer, the audience does not have much knowledge of her acting skills, and are also worried that she is difficult to play the role of the quirky but very smart Huang Rong.

However, as time passes, many people have changed their minds, thinking that the combination of Tsui Hark, Xiao Zhan and Jin Yong will create a very good martial arts masterpiece.

Others have said that Tsui Hark's choice to cast Xiao Zhan as the first star of "Legend of the Eagle Shooting Heroes: The Greatest Warrior", and to have him play the role of the real warrior Guo Jing in the movie, was not just a "whim". Tsui Hark once praised Xiao Zhan, saying: "He is a workaholic, his acting skills are trustworthy, and I hope to work with him in the future".

Some people even said that director Tsui Hark once said: "Xiao Zhan has box office appeal, and he is expected to become the first Chinese actor whose single movie box office exceeds 10 billion yuan.

As to whether director Tsui Hark has praised Xiao Zhan, saying that his movie box office appeal is very strong, saying that he is also expected to become a good actor but the film box office exceeded 10 billion, we are not at liberty to draw conclusions, after all, we do not have the opportunity to ask director Tsui Hark himself.

But what we can conclude is that this statement is totally chasing. As of now, Xiao Zhan doesn't have box office appeal, and none of the movies he starred in have created high box office. There's also the fact that in the next however many years, it's unlikely that there will be a domestic movie with a box office that breaks 10 billion RMB, and it's even more unlikely that this will happen to Xiao Zhan.

What is the concept of 10 billion RMB? It's more than 4 billion more than the current box office champion of Chinese movie history, Changjin Lake, and is almost equivalent to the total box office of an Avengers 4 movie. Converted into dollars that's 1.39 billion, and in 2023 that's the global box office runner-up. Our domestic movies, on the other hand, haven't really stepped out of the country and into foreign markets. Based on our mainland alone, the box office of 10 billion can be said to be a "fantasy".

However, there is one thing that "The Legend of the Eagle Eagle Heroes: Chivalry" may be able to do, that is, the box office record of Chinese martial arts movies and even the global box office record of martial arts movies, it is possible to break.