Yeoh’s stunt work is impeccable in Supercop, and Chan has admitted that she was so good, he had to think of even more dangerous stunts for himself so that she did not eclipse him. He always joked that when he made it to director, he would direct me in a movie.” “We used to work together when he was an assistant director. The fact that Tong was slated to direct helped her make a quick decision, she said. That’s how I feel about this project,” she told the Post ’s Kavita Daswani before the film went into production. “I am fairly impulsive, and if I have a good feeling about something, I will follow it. The marriage ended amicably after four years, and she took the role in Supercop when Golden Harvest contacted her with a proposal. Yeoh had retired from acting when she married Poon in 1988 to focus on family life. Chan jumps from a building onto a rope ladder dangling from a helicopter, and Yeoh, in an incredibly dangerous stunt, jumps onto a moving train riding a dirt bike. This leads to a showdown in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, which features two of Chan’s and Yeoh’s greatest stunts.

The pair free one of the drug smugglers from a prison camp to win his trust, and then infiltrate the gang. Chan plays a Hong Kong police officer who is sent to China to arrest a drug smuggling gang, and Yeoh plays his counterpart there. The story is just an excuse for the plentiful action. The resulting movie brought China into the storyline and added more machinery and vehicles to the stunts. Tong’s big idea was to hire the popular Michelle Yeoh, who had been in retirement for four years following her marriage to D&B Films mogul Dickson Poon, to play a police officer alongside Chan. “The studio asked me what I could do to make it different.” “I went through all of Chan’s old films to see what worked and what didn’t,” Tong told Ariane Simard. So Golden Harvest gave the job of directing Police Story 3: Supercop (1992) to Stanley Tong Kwai-lai, a former stuntman, assistant director and production executive – and also a good friend of Chan’s – who said he could deliver something new in a year. At the turn of the 1990s, producers Golden Harvest wanted to make a third instalment to refit Chan’s image for the new decade, and decided they needed to add some new elements to keep the series fresh.Ĭhan had always directed his own films for the studio, but his Operation Condor had taken two years to complete – too long for a studio which mainly ran on their top star’s box-office proceeds. Police Story and its sequel featured some of Jackie Chan’s most notable stunts, and both films had been big hits.

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