Jackie Chan is rightfully considered the most prominent and popular world action movie star. It is not surprising that every year the attention of the actor’s fans and fans of the genre is directed to Chan’s new works. Fortunately, it’s quite obvious that old Jackie doesn’t even think about retirement. This is evidenced by the projects scheduled for 2016. For a minute, there are as many as four of them! Let's quickly go through all the upcoming Jackie Chan films.
Railroad Tigers
Filming of this war film ended before Christmas 2015, and now is in post-production.
Synopsis: December 1941, Japan expands its occupation of China and neighboring countries, the railway from Tianjin to Nanjing in East China has become a major military route, guarded by Japanese troops. The story follows courageous railroad worker Ma Yuan (Jackie Chan), who, using knowledge of the railroad, joins Chinese rebels in a guerrilla war for freedom, attempting to thwart an ambitious Japanese plan to cut off food supplies to China's disobedient population. And despite the fact that the rebels do not have weapons, their subversive activities greatly hinder the Japanese military. Ma Yuan's detachment began to be called the "Railway Tigers".
This film is the third in the creative union Jackie Chan и Dina Shenawho have already worked together on films "Little big soldier" and "Police Story 2013" Played the main antagonist Hiroyuki Ikeuchi, well known to the Russian public from the films “Yip Man" and "20199: A Space Odyssey" According to unconfirmed rumors, Jackie's son will appear in the film. Jaycee Chan and this will be his first film appearance since his drug scandal and jail time.
Kung Fu Yoga
Filming of this film, which happened at the suggestion of his wife Jackie Lin Fengjiao, have not yet been officially completed, but the main action scenes have already filmed in Dubai and in China. To the subsequent filming of the film directed by old friend Jackie Stanley Tonga (“Police Story 3,” “Rumble in the Bronx”), the lead actor will return immediately after the filming of another potential 2016 hit, “The Foreigner,” which is discussed below.
Synopsis: Chan plays a famous archeology professor who teams up with a beautiful Indian girl, also a professor, to find Magatha, the lost treasure of India. Archaeologists will search in Tibet. However, the couple is drawn into incredible adventures that will force archaeologists to travel around the world, competing and fighting with criminal gangs who also want to get their hands on the treasure. Of course, Jackie Chan's hero pursues exclusively good goals, so his rivals should not fare well.
Besides Chan, in "Kung fu yoga» are removed Lei Zhang, Miya Muki, Aarif Rahman, Bollywood stars Sonu Snood, Amira Dastur and the singer Ileana, who will play Jackie's partner. Stuntmen from Bruce Law Stunts Unlimited, and is responsible for the choreography of fights Alan Ng ("The Karate Kid", "Sorry I Love You").
"On the Trail" (Skiptrace)
This movie Jackie Chan и Renny Harlina, most likely, we will see the first in 2016. This American project stars a famous comedian Johnny Knoxville, Chinese beauty Fan Bingbing (“The Forbidden Kingdom”, “The Witch with White Hair”), a legend of Hong Kong cinema Eric Tsang ("My Lucky Stars"), WWE Diva Yves Torres and Korean movie star Yeon Jung Hoon (“My wife is a gangster”).
The plot of the picture is simple. It follows a Hong Kong detective who is forced to work with a pesky US partner to take on Chinese gangsters and the Russian mafia.
Filming for this film began back in 2014. Then a Hollywood actor was planned for the role of Chan’s “annoying partner” Sean William Scott. However, shortly after filming began, Scott left the project and was replaced by Knoxville.
«On the trail"was supposed to start in Chinese box office at the end of 2015, but the release was postponed to mid-2016. But the film's distribution will be worldwide.
"The Foreigner"
Today, Jackie Chan is busy filming in the UK, where he works along with former James Bond Pierce Brosnan above the paintingForeigner" It is still not known exactly who is the director of this project. According to one source this is Martin Campbell (“Casino Royale”), according to others - Nick Cassavetes ("The Astronaut's Wife") The film is an adaptation of Stephen Leeser's novel The Chinaman.
Synopsis: Former Vietnamese-Chinese soldier Kwan (Jackie Chan) is tired of the war and is now forced to start his life from scratch by running a Chinese takeaway shop in London. However, his life is disrupted again when members of Kwan's family are killed in a terrorist bombing. The modern justice system can't do anything about the terrorists, and Chan's character must once again take up arms to wage his own war against the villains.
The film is planned to be dark and violent, in the spirit of “Taken” with Liam Neeson. The Foreigner is not at all in the vein of a Jackie Chan film, but both Chan and Brosnan can play dark characters when they want. And if Martin Campbell is at the helm, then we can get a good thriller with a great cast. Responsible for the action in “The Foreigner” are Hollywood movie veteran Greg Powell (“Fast & Furious 6,” “Avengers 2: Age of Ultron”) and one of the members of Jackie Chan’s stunt association, Han Guang-hua, who worked on stunts in films such as “Scott Pilgrim against everyone" and "Chinese Zodiac" by the same Chan.
In addition to the films described, rumors still loom "Rush Hour 4" and "The Karate Kid 2“, however, if these films are destined to happen, they are unlikely to be expected in 2016.
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I'm looking forward to "The Foreigner"! I have long dreamed of seeing Jackie either in the role of a villain or a hero who was very angry! Alice Cooper has a song "No more Mr. Nice Guy" - a great title for such a film!
The first film will be dark and Jackie tm. most likely, beautifully in slow motion will be riddled with bullets. The Chinese love it.
The second one about yoga will be a tramp dragging Chan onto his hump - Harleen is filming all kinds of shit. Another non-family non-comedy that Chan slipped into after moving to Hollywood.
The third one will be interesting if they don’t overdo it too much. Chan knows how to do drama, Brosnan does not disappoint. But if the plot is based on drama and not action, it will be bad. There was already such a film with Schwartz, it was called Compensation.
Kung Fu Panda 3 was recently released.