Jackie Chan vs. terrorists? With Pierce Brosnan as a shady government official? Yes, please. That's the basic concept behind The Foreigner, which has a new trailer on the web.
Chan here is starring as a restaurant owner in London’s Chinatown who has a dark past and is mourning his family. So you can understand his reaction when his one remaining kin, his teenage daughter, is killed in an attack orchestrated by rogue Irish terrorists. When the justice system brings him no satisfaction, he decides to track down the people responsible himself. Brosnan is Liam Hennessy, a former IRA member who is now a government official.
With David Marconi adapting Stephen Leather’s novel The Chinaman, the film has been through a few development wobbles and has taken a while to reach screens. But after securing Martin Campbell for the director's chair, it's finally on the way – at least to the States, where it'll land on 13 October, following a launch in China (where Chan is naturally hugely popular) on 30 September. As for UK audiences? We'll have to wait and see if and when it makes it to our shores.