SKIPTRACE Fires A Dragon Through The Desert In The Latest Poster

Make room on your plate for the next few years because action star Jackie Chan hasn’t gone away just yet. Kung Fu Yoga, Civilian, Rush Hour 4, Shanghai Dawn and STX Entertainment’s The Foreigner are all worth bearing in mind as the devout action cinema mainstay and newly established film school dean keeps his focus just about everywhere in relation to anything involving film, specifically nowadays with director Renny Harlin‘s globetrotting sleuth buddy comedy, Skiptrace, in post-production.

The film is certainly another sizeable up in antee for a China-based Chan film production following Daniel Lee’s Dragon Blade, and though Chan may be getting older and unable to do a lot of what he used to, he always manages to find a way to deliver grand-scale impact which is always refreshing. Of course, the accidental death of veteran cinematographer Chan Kwok-hung off the coast of Lantau Island back in December can’t go without mentioning, particularly for someone who has contributed well over twenty years to Hong Kong movie history behind the camera. Alas, it will surely be a parting treat and poignant farewell for those who are familiar with the legendary lensman’s career in lieu of what some can expect will be a continuance of his fine work on the action star’s latest craft.

SYNOPSIS:

One of the last good cops around, Hong Kong detective Bennie Black (Chan) has been tracking dangerous crime boss Victor Wong for over a decade. When Bennie’s beautiful young niece Samantha (Fan Bingbing) gets into trouble with Wong’s crime syndicate, he must track down the one man who can help her: fast-talking, American gambler Connor Watts (Knoxville). Watts, who is also on the run from the same mob and a dangerous Russian assassin. Eventually catching up with Connor in Siberia, Bennie races against the clock to bring him back to Hong Kong. The unlikely pair embark on a hilarious, perilous adventure from the windswept dunes of the Gobi Desert, to the rocky spires of the Huangshan Mountains. 

Cultures collide in this buddy comedy which takes us to places on earth we have never seen before. 

The new HD poster is out and leering over the Gobi Desert with what appears to be a dragon-shaped river smoking out of muzzle. Interesting.

Check it out below along with several promotional images courtesy of City On Fire via SuperChanBlog.