Would you believe it’s been FIVE (5) years since Jackie Chan and John Cena were announced for their own action adventure two-hander?…
Yes, that’s how long it’s taken for the film to arrive, between its production and completion, and mounting delays topped off with a lack of any online presence of news for what was then titled as either Project X-Traction or Snafu, or better yet, Hidden Strike, depending on who you read at the time.
The film finally made a teeny bit of headwind last year with the appearance of some standee marketing at the Marché du Film for the action flick from director Scott Waugh (upcoming The Expendables 4). The artwork came coupled with the XYZ Films logo and I was able to find out from a source close to the film that said delays were “purely down to Chinese politics completely unrelated to the film itself,” adding that it “took a long while for that stuff to resolve.”
I was also told that fans would be seeing an annoucement soon. That all was roughly a year ago, and as it stands with annoucements for the release of the Chan/Cena headliner surfacing in the Middle East and elsewhere (signaled by the recent premature leak of trailer footage now completely gone from the web), XYZ is now making its case to deliver the long-awaited action flick sometime this year.
Two ex-special forces soldiers (John Cena and Jackie Chan) must escort a group of civilians along Baghdad’s “Highway of Death” to the safety of the Green Zone.
Also starring are Pilou Asbæk, Amadeus Serafini and Rachel Holoway among others. Arash Amel (The Titan, upcoming The Ministry Of Ungentlemanly Warfare) penned the script.
Check out the trailer!
