It is very strange that It has been so long for Hong Kong's action Starwar, Jackake Chan to break out in North America. He was a massive starvet in Hong Kong during the 1970s, and his films were exciting and fun. However, for some reason, that success does not translate very well to the American audience, despite several attempts by the major American study.

In 1980, for example, Warner Bros. and Golden Vestoche teamed up to make the "big fight", aka "Battle Creek Brawl", an American production that was supposed to bring Jackkeepi Chan State. The "big fight" starred Jan, playing a gentle restaurant in the 1930s Chicago, who works on the crowd. It is starring Christine Del, Jose Ferrer, Mako, Rosalind Chao and the wrestler with an important hagerti. The film was actually a hit, but Warner Bros. was disappointed that it was not as big as Bruce Lee's recent movie "Enter the Dragon". Han was only able to stay in American consciousness through Closos in films like "The Cannonball Run". The remake never happened.

Jan also didn't like the way US directors were filming scenes. He was used to having a huge team of trick fighters and performers who would practice extensively to make sure the scene was right. In America, it was only Jan, and the executives wanted to continue after two or three downloads. It would not be up to "Bronx wheels" that Jan could make a movie in his own idiom, yet with an American audience in mind. It was a hit.

After that, Studios took a chance for Jan. He was in Rush Hour in 1998, playing one half of the non-complaining duo of Buddy-Cop opposite Chris Tucker, and exploded in popularity. Rush Hour made $ 244 million with a $ 30 million budget and caused the entire franchise. It also proved to be Jan's Banking American Starwar and led directly to his work on Shanghai Noon, Comedy/Action/West, he starred with Owen Wilson. It was also a huge hit. Chan talked about his way to American West at Vintage Interview with WFAA ABC News.

Chan, it seems, wanted to do Western many, many years. Han has always been a huge fan of Hollywood films, and even in previous interviews he said his physical physical activity on the screen is deeply inspired by Buster Keaton's likes. He loves the West and aimed to do one of his at least 1980. Indeed, his experience of the "big fight" led directly to his writing at an early draft of Shanghai Noon, which Jan was forced to keep in the drawer for decades. As he said:

"20 years ago, I was supposed to make a movie in Texas and Arizona. And, I will see a lot of cowboys (...) and all of a sudden, my idea! Wow! That's a good idea; a movie from the 1800s, a Chinese man who was going west of the back east. Well, I stopped the project.

Chan was unable to bring his west in 1980 because, as US producers told him at the time, he did not speak English enough. Hence, he was facilitated to tell him that he would be allowed to speak English about "Shanghai noon". The film was renewed as a script by Alfred Goff and Miles Millar; Han is not credited as a screenwriter or producer, but he claims that his idea is to make.

"Shanghai noon" was a modest success, To make almost $ 100 million on a $ 50 million budget. Inspired a sequel called "Shanghai Knights".