According to the official announcement, Jackie Chan stars in “The Legend”. an archaeologist on an adventure that takes him through space and time. There are not many details yet, but a promo poster that has already appeared shows a group in front of a kind of ice portal. Large on the other side are horsemen from a historic battle. So we expect Jackie Chan to play an adventurous archaeologist, aka Indiana Jones, who might come across some sort of portal while exploring.
However, as a comparison film, “The Myth” from 2005 is also mentioned, in which Chan has already embodied an archaeologist who was in contact with the past – here, however, there was no time travel, but the archaeologist in the present suddenly saw the experiences of an ancestor (also Chan ), who fell in love with a princess 2000 years ago as a general.
“The Legend”: Jackie Chan & Stanley Tong’s 10th Collaboration
“The Myth” was then directed by Stanley Tong, who will now also direct “The Legend”. It is the tenth time that Tong has staged his compatriot Chan. Most recently, this was the case with the 2020 released but rather disappointing action movie Vanguard – Elite Special Force.
Other collaborations of the duo give us more hope, as they have already given us some spectacular action sequences. Stanley Tong, who also worked as a stunt double for Jackie Chan for a while, staged a high point in Chan’s filmography with “Police Story 3 – Supercop,” starring lead actor and co-star and newly crowned Oscar winner Michelle Yeoh (“Everything Everywhere All At Once”). ) perform some breakneck actions. With “Rumble In The Bronx”, Tong is also responsible for the film that finally helped Jackie Chan achieve his long-awaited breakthrough in the US in the mid-1990s and amazed audiences there because stunts like the one in this film were taken out of Hollywood cinema. I didn’t know used.
It is not yet known when “The Legend” could appear. Jackie Chan recently took the top spot in Chinese cinema charts with his current movie “Ride On”. It is not yet known when the comedy about an elderly stuntman will come to Germany. But there is already a rental.