The news of the death of veteran actor Wang Yu with the title of “One-Armed Swordsman” came out on the 5th, which shocked many fans. And Wang Yu’s special identity and status in the entertainment circle are also praised, especially in the 1991 movie “Island of Fire”, Wang Yu, relying on his status and connections, invited Jackie Chan, Andy Lau, Tony Leung Ka Fai, Sammo Hung. Waiting for first-line actors to play. However, it was later reported that the actors in the film refused to talk regarding the film followingwards, and Jackie Chan once said in his autobiography that “it was to repay the debt of gratitude”.
It is understood that the film “Fire Island” was directed by Zhu Yanping, which started shooting in 1990 and was officially released in 1991. The film was performed by Tony Leung, Jackie Chan, Andy Lau, Sammo Hung, Tuo Zonghua and Ke Junxiong. And Wang Yu also plays the eldest brother in prison in the film. In the story, he escaped from prison with Sammo Hung, but he died at the gunpoint of the prison officers because of Sammo Hung’s betrayal. And although this film is star-studded, it can be called a grand event for the first-line actors to gather, but in the end, both the Taiwan box office and the Hong Kong box office both failed, becoming a black history for all the superstars.
According to media reports, in fact, although the director of “Fire Island” is Zhu Yanping, the main planner is the idea of a group of “big buddies”. Previously, Taiwan had carried out the “Yi Qing Project”, and many important gang members were arrested and sent to green Island Prison. Years later, many of the gang brothers who were released from prison changed the runway, and some of them moved to the entertainment industry, talking regarding what happened in the Green Island Prison that year, and the Hong Kong movie “Prison” series was well received at that time. Then the story of shooting Taiwanese prisons arose to spit out the bitterness of the past. So Wang Yu took over this heavy responsibility and found the golden horse actor Ke Junxiong to cooperate, and found Liang Jiahui, Jackie Chan, Andy Lau, Sammo Hung and others to perform together.
However, the evaluation of “Island of Fire” following its release was too bad. The box office in Hong Kong was only HK$11.73 million. In 1991, Stephen Chow’s “Fighting Dragon” dominated the annual box office with an annual box office of HK$43.83 million, followed by Jackie Chan’s “Flying Eagle Project” with a Hong Kong box office of 39.05 million yuan, and the third was “The Lame Man” starring Lu Liangwei. “, the Hong Kong box office was 38.7 million yuan. In fact, even Andy Lau starred in “The Legend of 500 Million Inspector Lei Luo 1: Thunder Tiger”, which also achieved an amazing result of 30.69 million yuan in Hong Kong. Looking at this standard, the star-studded “Island of Fire” only had a box office of 11.73 million yuan, which was a serious failure.
After the box office failure of “Island of Fire”, rumors began to spread in the entertainment industry. Some sources pointed out that Leung Ka Fai, the protagonist of “Island of Fire”, was actually filming the French film “The Lover” in Vietnam at that time. , joined the filming of “Island of Fire”, Andy Lau’s experience is almost the same as that of Tony Leung. As for the rest of the main actors, Sammo Hung himself has a good personal relationship with Wang Yu, so he didn’t have much opinion when he joined it. It is rumored that Jackie Chan nodded and agreed to join the filming in order to repay Wang Yu’s favor. It is worth mentioning that Jackie Chan was filming “Flying Eagle Project” in Spain at that time, and especially interrupted the shooting for “Island of Fire”, and he also sacrificed himself to die on the first screen in the film.
In fact, the above content has been rumored in the entertainment industry for many years, but no relevant person has made direct or indirect confirmation. Only Jackie Chan mentioned in his autobiographical book “I Am Jackie Chan” released in 1998 that when he turned to the Golden Harvest movie, he aroused the dissatisfaction of the original agent Luo Wei, and Luo Wei found a gangster to capture Jackie Chan in an attempt to Force Jackie Chan to film. In the end, it was Wang Yu who came to the rescue, which saved Jackie Chan.
Also because of this rescue, when Wang Yu spoke, Jackie Chan nodded without hesitation. The autobiographical book “I Am Jackie Chan” also mentioned this, and the rest of the actors who appeared in “Fire Island” also participated for almost the same reason.
