With fresh chatter that he’ll be back in the saddle for a third Shanghai film to follow Noon and **Knights, there’s more solid information about another new Jackie Chan project. He’s taking the lead role in a new action thriller called **The Foreigner.
According to Variety, Nick Cassavetes is in talks to direct the film, which David Marconi has adapted from Stephen Leather’s 1992 novel The Chinaman. The story finds a restaurant owner in London’s Chinatown who has to track down the terrorists who killed his daughter.
It’s a typical blending of action and emotion for Chan, though could be something different for Cassavetes, whose directing CV includes films more like The Notebook, The Other Woman and My Sister’s Keeper. It does, however, hark back to one of his earlier films, John Q.
Whoever ends up in the director’s chair should have the cameras rolling this October. Chan has various films on the way, including Dragon Blade, Skiptrace and Railroad Tigers, and he’ll once again be the voice of Monkey in Kung Fu Panda 3, due here on March 18 next year. Chan fans that have not heard it should check out our special podcast about the man, which you can find below.
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