JACKIE CHAN MOVIES
SELECTED BY DIRECTORS Gareth Evans & Edgar Wright
You’re both huge Jackie Chan fans. When did you first discover him? What was the movie that made you fall in love with him?
Edgar Wright: The first time I ever saw Jackie Chan was in The Cannonball Run on TV, when I was eight or nine. It’s not a good movie, but when you’re that age it seems like the best movie of all time. And there was this guy, Jackie Chan, who’s not in the film for long, but he’s so engaging and charming that you immediately love him. Then Jonathan Ross on Channel 4 did The Incredibly Strange Film Show, and Jackie was on that. That blew my head off, and I wanted to see everything. The film I fell in love with first was Police Story.
We saw the same stuff, but in a slightly different order. My first experience of a Jackie Chan film was quite short-lived. I convinced my mum to let us rent . We stuck it on and it’s strongly violent in the beginning. My mum stopped it and said, “You’re never watching a Jackie Chan, and he said it was different, an Indiana Jones-type thing. And I was just sold.
