Jackie Chan & Jet Li Movie Moving Forward
Oct 31st, 2006 | by CousinPaulie | Posted in movies, press, sci-fi | Comments Off
Source: Variety
Jackie Chan and Jet Li will star together for the first time in a $70 million action-adventure that Relativity Media will finance and Casey Silver produces, reports Variety.
Robert Minkoff (The Lion King, Stuart Little) will direct, while martial arts expert Yuen Woo-Ping (The Master) will create the action sequences. Shooting is set for April.
The trade says that the film is one of two new big-budget projects that Relativity will be offering to buyers at the American Film Market starting Wednesday. The second is Brian De Palma’s $70 million prequel The Untouchables: Capone Rising, which Paramount will distribute domestically.
Chan-Li starrer, known as the untitled J&J project, has been rumored for some time, but Relativity, headed by Ryan Kavanaugh, boarded only recently. The John Fusco (Hidalgo) script is based on the legend of the monkey king and his quest to achieve immortality.
Li is set to play two roles, that of the monkey king and the silent monk. Chan will play the monk T’sa-Ho.
The Untouchables prequel is set to start shooting in June. Writing duo Brian Koppelman and David Levien penned the script for for the film, which charts Chicago mob boss Al Capone’s rise to power and his relationship with police detective and nemesis Jimmy Malone.
