A Legend | Blu-ray (Well Go USA)
On January 21, 2025, Well Go USA is releasing A Legend on Digital, Blu-ray and DVD! This upcoming fantasy actioner has the legendary Jackie Chan (The Foreigner) re-teaming with Hong Kong director Stanley Tong (Rumble in the Bronx). The film is the follow-up to their 2005 collaboration, The Myth.
While investigating the history of a newly discovered ancient artifact, a renowned archaeologist (Chan) unwittingly establishes a mystical connection with a heroic Han dynasty general, blurring the lines between past and present right as the general prepares to wage war against the brutal Hun army.
A Legend also stars Bextiyar Gülnezer (Dynasty Warriors), Yixing Zhang (Ming Dynasty), Aarif Lee (Wolf Pack), Chen Li (Sky Hunter), Max Huang (Hidden Strike), Kim Hee-seon (Bichunmoo), Shawn Dou (Flowers of War) and Yecheng Zheng (Royal Nirvana).
Jackie Chan and Stanley Tong created magic together in a string of some of Chan’s most loved films of the 90s, including 1992’s Police Story 3: Supercop, 1995’s Rumble in the Bronx and 1996’s Police Story 4: First Strike. Their most recent collaboration was 2017’s Kung Fu Yoga and 2020’s Vanguard. In fact, their collaboration was the subject of last year’s retrospective, Jackie Chan & Stanley Tong: Giving the People What They Want.
Don’t miss the film’s New U.S. Trailer below:
I’d rather they do country for a Warner Archive uncut, original language Rumble in the Bronx.
Commentary.
I’d rather see them doing nothing together, as Kung fu Yoga was one of the most excruciatingly bad movies in both their careers. I have no intentions of seeing Vanguard as well, sticking to his old classics, than the recent rubbish he put on screen.
Yeah, you’re not missing much. I saw it last year, don’t remember anything other than the handsome dudes sharing the screen with Jackie or the shoddy CGI.
I liked The Foreigner
Looking forward to this. Thought The Myth would have been a better sequel to Armour of God than CZ12. Jackie has a lot of rumored films upcoming hope to see this one get made. Also I want to see a proper Blu Ray / 4k UHD Rumble release too but don’t think Jackie has anything to do with that getting done.
Great, finally a chance for a wide audience to get to know the carefree life of the people of this particular region.
Was First strike really a loved 90s JC movie. Even at the time it seemed subpar
Police story 3 is a little overrated (s… my …, Quentin). Hey, 88 Films/Eureka, the full cut of First strike would be a nice thing to put out…
the only good thing about the original cut of First Strike is that …yes ot confirms its the same Chan Ka Kui character from 1-3. Apart from that its about 40 mins longer and more zzzzzzzzzz
This. One of the few instances were less is more. The U.S. cut got rid of a lot of unnecessary stuff.
I don’t know about that. It certainly wasn’t Chekhov, and had some corny dialogue, but the cut footage had a certain charm to it.
More Jackie is never a bad thing.
But First Strike dragged in both versions, at least for me.
Generally, I feel that New Line’s editing team enhanced JC’s films, where Miramax/Dimension’s team hacked it to bits.
JC’s character is much more likeable in the New Line cut of Rumble (he isn’t two-timing his HK girlfriend with Anita and Francoise, for example), and the plot flows better. The music is more enjoyable in the New Line version too. The HK cut is more serious, the New Line cut gives us the JACKIE we know and love.
They shouldn’t be doing anything together anymore, but I’m sure there’s a great payday for them!
We are way past the days when Stanley showed what he was made of with Stone Age Warriors. That’s a film that needs to be released uncut and remastered!
They need one more sheety movie so that 88 films can release a trilogy boxset of sh1te featuring this, Vanguard and Kungfu Yoga.
‘Bleeding Steel’ would be a more than worthy candidate to make that boxset a reality already!
So we are gonna act like Kung Fu Yoga wasn’t exactly that? It was a sequel to the myth directed by Stanley tong.
I prefer this new film’s alternate title, “The Fuckness.”
Why so angry LOL Jackie is 70 year old man, he is a living legend. He broken his body to deliver us solid action stuff during 80s and 90s, and at his current age
he still making films. You want him to make stuff like in a good old days? Really? LoL
No, I don’t want him to make stuff like in the good old days … in fact, I want him to stop trying to! He should move onto something other than action movies, like serious, well written dramas, maybe crime dramas, hell, maybe romantic comedies (with leading ladies somewhere close to his own age!)! He needs to take a hint from Clint Eastwood & stop trying to be a lesser version of his youthful self!
And how is he going to get cast in those roles?
Did I say that anywhere?
I’d settle for him making good moves in old age rather than stuff like in the good old days, but judging by that clip this isn’t going to be either.
Looks like Jackie is guest-starring in his own movie again. Yeah not liking the look of this at all. But then I hated the first one as well.
I still want the otiginal KH cut of First strike (OK, with BOTH cuts) or…let people out of the USA cut their sh… 150′ blockbusters to an acceptable 90 minutes. Well, in fact I don’t care, since it’s been a few years I don’t watch ’em aymore…
Looks decent enough to watch. He sure keeps busy with so many movies on his plates. He should be shooting the new karate kid by now. I
88 films / Eureka will be prepping their new Stanley Tong/Chan trilogy of shiteness boxset with Kungfu Yoga/Vanguard/A Legend. With new artwork and commentaries by ……random man on fiverr
I must admit I did not see one single thing in that trailer which makes me want to see this movie. And once again Jackie has been digitally “de-aged” lol. Not really complaining though as I’m sure a lot of actors his age are doing the same thing these days.
A.I. de-aged Jackie Chan?! No thanks! Even the Chinese viewers are cringing over this.
This landed on Iqiyi today. What a mess. No one expected this to be any good but even with lowered expectations, it still didn’t deliver. A snorefest from beginning to end, it somehow manages to make The Myth seem like a minor masterpeice. The most interesting thing about the movie is easily the de-aged Jackie Chan which looks atrocious. Old man Jackie only takes part in a fight at the end of the movie where he moves great for a 70 yr old (with stunt doubles). Stanley Tong …..he made one masterpeice (Police story 3), two mids (Rumble, Police Story 4) one misfire (The Myth) and 3 utter trash movies (Yoga, Vanguard, A Legend) Its been 7 years since Chans last watachable movie (The Foreigner) and over a decade and a half since his last HK movie. Now he’s passed on the commie ambassador position to Donnie Yen, i am hoping he makes a few late career gems before he retires.
Stanley Tong also directed Stone Age Warriors which I constantly gush over and demand a 88 or Eureka release for.
With lower expectations for A Legend, what was there for the movie to deliver? This movie will quickly be forgotten about, and the only good movie I can see Jackie Chan doing now is the Kung fu version of Unforgiven.
I’m sure he’s kicking himself for turning down Everything Everywhere All at Once.
I’m glad he turned it down – I don’t think Chan has it in him anymore to deliver a performance that could match Yeoh’s in EEAAO. We would be hoping for Unforgiven and he would deliver Indy 5 but worse. He’s gonna be in the new Karate kid movie but instead of the down to earth humble dude in the first one, I fear they are gonna turn him into Cobra Kai Chozen where hes the comic relief to La russo’s straight man
This one is bad and that why it was a massive flop in china. Barely made a few million dollars against a budget of 50 million dollars.
Like Stanley Tong’s recent films like Vanguard, Jackie Chan is almost a walk-on in A Legend. Not to mention that he is replaced by a totally failed AI. The script written by Stanley Tong is also not a success. It is increasingly apparent that Stanley Tong is a very bad filmmaker. Police Story III, Rumble in the Bronx and First Strike were largely supervised by Jackie Chan at the height of his physical fitness. The children’s comedy Panda Plan or comedy Ride On are much better.
“I’m sure he’s kicking himself for turning down Everything Everywhere All at Once.”
That f… movie only worked in the USA. Nobody gave a flying f… about it in the rest of the world:
From boxofficemojo (crappy site but, well…):
Domestic (53.8 %)
$77,191,785
International (46.2 %)
$66,220,886
Worldwide
$143,412,671
When I heard Jamie Lee Curtis saying that it was “the movie of a generation”, I just could’t believe her stupidity…and the size of her ego. I know quality and impact have not always something/anything to do with $, but believe me, that movie is already dead and buried (outside of Hollywood n’ Co).
Regardless, it’s a successful film that’s fondly remembered. Jackie Chan would rather have a recent one of those than continue to prostitute himself like this.
Sure he regrets it…I mean, only he knows that for sure.
But even if he had done that movie, it wouldn’t have changed a thing for him, I’m sure of it. He’s 70!!!!
Even if seven or eight of “Hong Kong” movies have made big big numbers at the local box office since Anita, it doesn’t change the fact that “Hong Kong” movies’ success at the “local” box office is once more down in 2024.
Investors are going away (bye bye New police story 2, etc), big China doesn’t care anymore about Jackie Chan, Andy Lau and Co.
“Hong Kong” market has become simply too small since more than 20 years, too many films are produced there now, and it’s not a little success (not even a million £, come on!) in UK’s box office for The last dance that’s gonna change anything.
Young talents should leave Hong Kong and really join China’s film industry, doing otherwise would be just pointless melancholy.