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DRAGON BLADE Shines Warrior Gold With New Character Posters!

While heavily underway with the current production with director Renny Harlin on the globe-trotting action comedy, Skiptrace, action legend Jackie Chan is poised for an epic premiere of his latest big scale action epic, Dragon Blade. Having already made a hearty impression through international sales earlier this year during Cannes, the film, directed by Daniel Lee is currently expected to begin its release run this February in Asia. As such, new posters have now gone viral for the upcoming big budget spectacle featuring a handful of the film’s key characters played by Chan, along with John Cusack, Adrien Brody and many more. SYNOPSIS: In 48BC, during the Han Dynasty, Roman general Lucius (John Cusack) crosses into China after being accused of treason. In the Gobi Desert, he fights and then befriends Huo An (Jackie Chan), a once high-ranking commander, who has been framed by corrupt court officials and forced into […]

[UPDATED] Chan And Hung Reunite To Recruit THE OLD SOLDIER

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UPDATE: Asian Film Stike has an update via HK Top 10 following The Tracking Board’s inital report 5 days ago stating Chan won’t be in the film due to scheduling conflicts, and will instead star Andy Lau (Firestorm) – H/T FCSyndicate reader Terry Cheung. Stay tuned for more info. Sammo Hung directs Jackie Chan on the set of The Medallion (2003) Thus continuing to disprove any hint or nod to retirement, it appears that multifaceted action star Jackie Chan is looking to make another movie! According to Far East Films (via Tracking Board), Chan is boarding the new project titled The Old Soldier, reuniting with longstanding collaborator, fellow legendary action thespian and superstar Sammo Hung. The news comes on the heels of Chan‘s most recently reported work on Skiptrace in Malaysia with director Renny Harlin and co-stars Fan Bingbing and Johnny Knoxville as of last month. The Old Soldier is said to […]

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Production News On DRAGON BLADE, SKIPTRACE And CHINESE ZODIAC 2!

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It took a little bit more time to bring some veracity to the latest photos news regarding the current prodiction of action star Jackie Chan‘s new epic, Dragon Blade, which just wrapped filming at Hengdian World Studios and will continue shooting in parts of the Gobi Desert this week. On Sunday, long after previous reports mentioning actors John Cusack and Adrien Brody joining the cast, official news arrived via industry site Variety formally announcing the actors who, based on a story by Chan, will respectively play Lucius, a Roman general who leads a legion of soldiers into China and escapes treachery at the hands of power-hungry warlord Tiberius. Opposite Brody, Cusack joins Chan who will play a fallen Han Dynasty commander who escapes enslavement as the two embark on a journey to protect China’s borders and sovereignty. The production is also getting some new official pictorial support with character photos […]

Jackie Chan Boards English-Language SA Production, CIVILIAN

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Things are going nuts over in Cannes this week. And for Jackie Chan fans, there’s good reason. It appears there is much ado about a lot of things that are worthy of mention for the international action superstar who is currently on the way with the production of director Sam Fell’s new film, Skiptrace, as well as Daniel Lee’s period actioner, Dragon Blade with co-star Mel Gibson, helmer Breck Eisner’s forthcoming sequel to The Karate Kid, a third Kung Fu Panda by next Winter and a yet-to-be-confirmed fourth Rush Hour movie just itching to be made official. Well, all this basically eschews any speculation of the action star’s retirement coming anytime soon, as a new report says that Chan will star in a new English-language action thriller titled Civilian, for Grudge Match helmer Peter Segal. Produced by Basil Ilwaynk for Thunder Road, the film will center on Chan who plays […]