Jackie Chan To Star And Produce NEW POLICE STORY 2, Nicholas Tse To Co-Star And Make Directorial Debut
A sequel to 2004’s New Police Story is on the horizon, according to Screen International’s digital magazine and Screen HK over at HKFilMart on Tuesday. Action star Jackie Chan will rejoin his co-stars, Nicholas Tse and Charlene Choi from the first film, with Chan producing and Tse making his directorial debut.
News comes three years after Jackie Chan reportedly announced a new Police Story installment which was to be released last year, reuniting him with Bleeding Steel helmer Leo Zhang. Plot and story details for the New Police Story sequel, as well as shooting dates and locations and other casting news remain pending.
Chan launched the Police Story film series in 1985 with producers Raymond Chow and Leonard Ho. Created in response to his own disappointing experience on the set of James Glickenhaus’s U.S. cop thriller, The Protector, Police Story became yet another template on which Chan would continue to reshape the way action cinema would be watched and perceived by audiences around the world, with a signature focus on cinematography, editing and his ultimate bread and butter: kinetic, record-setting fight choreography and grand-scale stuntwork.
In the years that followed, Chan grew the franchise with Police Story 2 in 1988, before headlining Police Story 3: Supercop with now Oscar-winning actress Michelle Yeoh who would then take the wheel for its own sequel, Supercop 2, with a cameo by Chan. The actor/filmmaker followed suit with Jackie Chan’s First Strike in 1996 with director Stanley Tong, before twice rebooting the series from 2004 with New Police Story, and Ding Sheng’s hollowed, grittier Police Story 2013 (a.k.a. Police Story: Lockdown).
Benny Chan directed New Police Story which saw starring actor Chan take the lead as a fallen hero cop given a second chance to nab a young gang of deadly terrorists. The film also starred Daniel Wu, in addition to Choi and Tse, the latter who went on to reunite with the helmer for Invisible Target with Shawn Yue, Jaycee Chan and Wu Jing. Tse would go on to star opposite leading man Donnie Yen for 2021 cop thriller, Raging Fire, where post-production was shepherded by regular Yen collaborator Kenji Tanigaki following the director’s tragic passing in August 2020.
Next to the Rush Hour franchise star’s other endeavors of late are an upcoming fourth installment of Rush Hour with Mike Tyson joining, his two-hander with John Cena in the long-awaited Snafu from XYZ Films, his VO appearance as Master Splinter in the Seth Rogen-produced Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem, and a sequel to Stanley Tong’s 2005 adventure, The Myth. On the roster for Tse is Customs Frontline from director Herman Yau, as well as a new Hong Kong cop thriller from director Dante Lam.
The New Police Story sequel hails from Albert Leung’s Emperor Motion Pictures which released a reel celebrating its production history and commitment to cinema which you can view below.
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