Two versions of detective veyron.

The Protector is another American film starring Jiahe Investment and Jackie Chan after the series of Killing Trench and Cannonball Flying, aiming at getting Jackie Chan into Hollywood. Unfortunately, if Killer is a mistake, then Detective Veyron is a disaster. At the beginning of filming, andre morgan and Chen Ziqiang, the directors of Jiahe's American branch, after analyzing the tastes of American audiences, decided to make Jackie Chan a "new york policeman" like Clint Eastwood, instead of a "clever martial arts hero" as before. Although Jackie Chan has concerns about this, the American branch has absolute control.

In the end, director James Glickenhaus turned Detective Veyron into a Hollywood action movie full of old routines. Action scenes are not only pitiful, but also very rigid and slow, completely without Jackie Chan's style. Jackie Chan is quite dissatisfied with such an action film. During the filming process, he and the director had many arguments, even swearing, and asked each other if they knew how to shoot action movies. But Glickenhaus said that from the beginning, he told Jackie Chan that this was his movie and that he would design the whole martial arts process, which was completely different from Jackie Chan's. Jackie Chan got angry and called He Guanchang to tell him that either Glickenhaus left or he left the crew. Unfortunately, the answer is not optimistic, because Glickenhaus signed a very strict contract with Jiahe, and it is not easy to replace him. Even if it is a mistake, the production will be completed. Although Jackie Chan was annoyed with the action scene that had been filmed for four days, he was helpless. As long as he continues to work according to the director's intention, he sometimes almost cries during the embarrassing filming. Jackie Chan's only benefit from "Detective Veyron" is the inspiration for filming "Never admit defeat".

Although Detective Veyron has achieved some success in European and American markets, it was rated as the only failure after Jackie Chan signed a contract with Jiahe. When the Asian version of Detective Veyron was released, Jackie Chan proposed to modify the film in his own way and got the consent. Jackie Chan invited the screenwriter Edward Tang to add a lot of subplots to the film, add a few new characters, and delete the inexplicable scenes and fortune-telling scenes in the American version. What you saw was the plot performed by singer Sally Yeh and martial artist Li Haisheng, which was added later. In addition, Jackie Chan also brought back the starring Dami Errol and boxer Bill Wallace from the United States, and re-filmed the fighting scene of the last World War, making it longer and more complicated, with faster action arrangement and more faithful to Yu Chenglong's fighting style. For Asian audiences, this version is much better than the American version.