| July 19, 2001 Hong Kong Superstars Chan and Li Team Up In the action-movie equivalent of an Al Pacino-Robert De Niro pairing, Hong Kong action kings Jet Li and Jackie Chan will make their first film together for Revolution Studios. The project will be scripted by Robert Mark Kamen, who has been soundly knocked for his work on Li's Kiss of the Dragon, which was co-written by director-producer Luc Besson. Li and Chan will also serve as executive producers of the untitled project. Of course, the flying fists of both in-demand stars are spoken for until fall 2002. Li, whose Kiss of the Dragon opened on July 6, is next in theaters this fall with The One, in which he must vanquish evil duplicates of himself across alternate universes. He is spending the summer filming Hero, an all-Asian, Chinese-language period epic written and directed by Zhang Yimou (Raise the Red Lantern). He then moves on to star in an untitled action comedy for Miramax in which he plays a Tibetan monk who wins a trip to New York City, a project also scripted by Kamen. When those films are done, then Li will be free to do the Revolution film, according to Variety. Chan, meanwhile, returns with Chris Tucker in Rush Hour 2 on Aug. 3 and has already wrapped work on The Accidental Spy. He's expected to star next in the DreamWorks comedy The Tuxedo, with the sequel to the cowboy comedy Shanghai Noon, to be called Shanghai Knights, also in the works. Reuters/Variety contributed to this story. |