Originally Posted by
Vic Vega
This is really interesting. You've got a modernized Marvel
version of a Wuxia film with a guy in the lead who HK producers would never cast as a Wuxia lead.
You either had to have Martial Arts chops, be a HK popstar or be a HK drama vet (and Jackie Chan was technically all 3).
That leaves out a lot of legitimate talent who never came up through those grinds.
Time was something like this would automatically go to a guy like Tiger Chen and only because Jackie, Jet and them have aged out of the young leading man category ( and Jackie held on for 20 after that).