Trailers for the films “As Cool as It Gets,” “The Stranger” and “Life After the Fight”

31.05.2023Danil Chupakhin

The American-Chinese action film has an original title Project X an extremely unenviable fate. about the project started talking back in 2016, then the stars of the world action movie were supposed to appear in the film Jackie Chan и Sylvester Stallone, but Hollywood's Rambo couldn't fit in with his work schedule and turned down the role.

The film began filming in 2017, and Chan's partner got it former professional wrestler and actor John Cena. In 2018, the action film had already been filmed, but Sina’s public statements about the annexation of Hong Kong to China turned out to be scandalous, and the release of the project was postponed. Then the pandemic happened, and it seemed that the action movie was simply forgotten; the press only changed the title of the film: Project X, Ex-Baghdad, SNAFU...

Finally, an action-comedy directed by Scott Waugh (“Law of Valor”, “Need for Speed”) is ready for the premiere under the title "Hidden Strike" (Hidden Strike), and in Russian box office - “It couldn’t be cooler”.

The film takes place in a Chinese oil refinery located in the Middle East. A terrorist organization takes workers hostage, and a private security operative (Jackie Chan) rushes to the aid of his compatriots. In the process, the true goal of the terrorists is revealed, and then a private security company employee enlists the help of a former Marine (John Cena).

Besides Jackie Chan (Police Story franchise) and John Cena (“Bumblebee”, “Fast and Furious 9-10”) took part in the film: Pilu Asbaek ("Samaritan"), Wang Zhenwei ("Karate Kid"), Amadeus Serafini ("Smiling Killers") Gong Jun ("Unstoppable") Ma Li (“Moon Man”) and others.

Stuntmen played small roles in the action film Temur Mamisashvili ("Bleeding Steel") Diego Dati (“Upgrade. Digital Soldier”), Tim Man ("Undisputed 4") and Max Huang (“Mortal Kombat”), the latter is also a stunt co-coordinator.

In domestic box office “It couldn’t be cooler” will appear with July 13, 2023.

Next in our selection today is a French hand-to-hand action film called "Stranger" (Farang).

The film was written and directed by Xavier Jeans (“The ABCs of Death”, “Atlantis”, “Bachelor Party in Europe”), who directed several episodes of the successful crime series "Gangs of London".

Synopsis: Sam, a professional boxer recently released from prison, breaks his probation, flees to a remote island in Thailand and starts a family there. But when the local godfather blackmails him into becoming a drug smuggler, things go straight to hell...

The main role in the film was played by the French-Algerian martial artist and actor Nassim Si Ahmed (“The Last Mercenary”, “Overdose”), the rest of the cast includes: Olivier Gourmet ("Chocolate"), Vithaya Pansringram (“Only God will forgive”), Kenneth Vaughn ("Meg 2: The Hollow"), Mehdi Kadim (TV series "Raiders"), martial artist and stuntman Ron Smoorenburg (“Who am I?”) and others.

It is noteworthy that the author of the local action design is a martial arts practitioner, a member of the stuntmen's association Jackie Chan and fight choreography director Jude Poyer, famous for coordinating stuntmen in "Ip Man 4" (2019) and staging action scenes in the first season "Gangs of London" (2019). A name was discovered in the camp of stuntmen Charlie Rydpokanona (“Time Can’t Wait,” “One Night in Bangkok,” “Fists of Vengeance”).

For theatrical release in your home country "Stranger" will go 28 June 2023 year.

It's been a while since an Australian martial artist and actor starred in a film with a specifically hand-to-hand theme. Bren Foster, who started out as a fighting actor and later began acting in films of various genres.

The new action movie starring him is called "Life after the fight" (Life After Fighting), which the Australian himself wrote and directed.

The film follows a martial arts teacher whose life takes a dark turn when he becomes drawn into the underworld of human trafficking in hopes of saving two of his students. It’s interesting that Bren talked about this project back in August last year, when he gave an interview Scott Adkins as part of his podcast The Art Of Action.

Bren Foster (“Maximum Term”, “Punitive Squad”, “Deep Blue Sea 3”) the company consists of the following actors: Cassie Howarth (“2 graves in the desert”), Luke Ford ("Black Ball") Annabelle Stevenson (TV series "Revenge") Jake Ryan ("Left Behind") Masa Yamaguchi (Marco Polo series), athlete and fencing master Ethan Brown and others.

It is not yet known when "Life after the fight" will be released to the masses, we only know that this should happen in 2023.

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