Jackie Chan’s successful collaboration
with Chinese studio Huayi Brothers will continue later this year with
the production of two more films — one set in New York and the other in
the vast deserts of rural China.
Hot on the heels of the success of
CZ12, the action comedy which generated $138 million at the mainland
Chinese box office earlier this year, Chan will be producing and
starring in the tentatively-titled Manhattan, a film which sees the Hong
Kong star playing “a dark hero” who “converses with love and hate”,
according to a statement released at a press conference in Shanghai.
Meanwhile, Wolf Flag (a tentative Chinese title for the second project)
will see Chan star in a “mournful ode concealed in the stricken desert”.
Both films are slated for release in 2014.
Part of a slate of upcoming projects
that Huayi Brothers dubbed The H Files, the two Jackie Chan films are
joined by the previously-announced David Ayer’s Fury, the Brad
Pitt-starrer co-produced by the studio and QED.
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