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Projekt J&J - Jackie Chan und Jet Li vor der Kamera!

Kategorie: Eastern - geschrieben am 18.05.2006 (17:59) von Burtons

Ein langersehnter Traum fr viele Eastern-und Action-Fans scheint nun endgltig in Erfllung zu gehen! Die beiden grten Ikonen des asiatischen Kinos treten zusammen in einem Film auf! Jackie Chan und Jet Li werden gemeinsam einen Film machen!

Damit geht ein jahrelanger Wunsch in Erfllung der z.B. Anhngern des westlichen Kinos bis zuletzt verwehrt blieb: das gemeinsame Auftreten von Stallone und Schwarzenegger.

Der Grund weshalb Chan und Li bisher nicht gemeinsam auf der Leinwand zu sehen waren, war entweder die Zeit (beide hatten immer einen vollen Terminkalender) oder die Uneinigkeit ber das Drehbuch. Nun hat ein im Moment noch unbekanntes Studio das Projekt besttigt, welches schon seit ca. 3 Monaten in Bearbeitung ist! Jackie Chan wird sich diesem Projekt nach Ende der Dreharbeiten von Rush Hour 3 widmen, dafr werden wahrscheinlich 2 andere Projekte auf Eis gelegt oder verworfen: Der Film "The Shinjuku Incident" von Regisseur Yee Tung-Shing und das noch unbekannte Filmprojekt von Zhang Yimou (Hero).

Jet Li hat besttigt mehrere Hollywoodangebote abgelehnt zu haben um an dem Projekt mit Jackie Chan mitwirken zu knnen. Die beiden Stars haben die Mglichkeit gemeinsam vor die Kamera zu treten schon seit Jahren in Erwgung gezogen, nun scheint es soweit zu sein!

According to Hong Kong's Oriental Daily and The Sun, Jackie Chan and Jet Li have agreed to star in the same movie now only known as The J & J Project, which will be announced officially with a teaser trailer during the coming Cannes Film Festival. An unidentified studio initialed the project, which has been in development for three months already. Jackie Chan will start working on the project after finishing Rush Hour 3. Chan's other projects, like The Shinjuku Incident, with director Yee Tung-Shing and the untitled project with Zhang Yimou may have to be postponed for The J & J Project. Jet Li reportedly has turned down several Hollywood offers to make time for the project with Jackie Chan. Jackie Chan and Jet Li have been exploring the possibility of working together for many years. Will The J & J Project finally make the dream come true?

Rumored Plot of the Jackie Chan / Jet Li Project (MonkeyPeaches Exclusive)   
   
August 9, 2006   
         
A detailed plot description has been circulating among many Chinese newspapers lately. It indicates the story is inspired by not only classic Chinese novel Journey to the West but also Chinese folk legends about the Eight Immortals.

 

The story begins with Monkey King pillages the heaven and is then imprisoned by Jade Emperor, lord of the heaven. Thousands years later, in present day's New York, a 15/16 year old boy is wandering in the streets. He is small, skinny and is often beaten up by other kids. He is obsessed by Hong Kong kung fu movies and ancient Chinese folk legends, like stories from Journey to the West. One day he walks into an pawnshop, where he discovers a cudgel. The shopkeeper warns him that the cudgel contains magic power and no one shall touch it. But the boy touches it anyway and is immediately brought back to the ancient China. The cudgel is in fact the personal weapon of Monkey King and only Monkey King can help him to get back. He set up a journey to find the imprisoned Monkey King and with help from Lan Caihe, one of the Eight Immortals, the boy frees Monkey King returns the cudgel to him. Monkey King decides to accompany Tripitaka (the Tang Monk) for a journey to the west and before departing, he sends the boy back home. After the adventure, the boy has become a real fighter and has learned the true meaning of kung fu.

 

The rumor suggests Jet Li will play Monkey King, rather than Tripitaka as reported previously, and Jackie Chan will play Lan Caihe. Monkey King is the lead character in Journey to the West, written based on folklores. In the novel, he single handily pillages the heaven, and is imprisoned under a mountain by the Buddha. Five hundred years later, he is freed by Tripitaka and as a disciple and guardian of Tripitaka, he escorts him to the west to seek Buddhist texts, with two other disciples, Pigsy and Sandy. Lan Caihe was a real person, a bagger from Tang Dynasty. In Chinese folk legend, he is described as one of the "Eight Immortals" and is often portrayed as a young boy carrying a basket of flowers.

 

According Chinese newspaper The Beijing News, which called the project "The Handsome Monkey King", the script is written by John Fusco (Hidalgo, Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron, Young Guns). It is directed by Rob Minkoff (Stuart Little, Stuart Little 2, The Lion King) and one of the produces is Bill Badalato (Around the World in 80 Days, Alien: Resurrection, Broken Arrow, Top Gun). Name of the young boy is "Cleo". The project is mainly financed by Beverly Hills-based Relativity Media (The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift, Monster House, RV), produced by Casey Silver Productions (Ladder 49, Hidalgo, Gigli) and has been picked up by Universal. The Chinese co-producer, probably Shanghai Film Studios, will cover at least one sixth of the total cost (about US$60 million) and about US$7.5 million will be spent directly on the production in Shanghai.

SilverLion schrieb am 25.08.2006 23:59 Uhr:
Hrt sich gut an, das einzige was mich ein bichen Strt ist die Tatsache das es wohl hauptschlich im frhen China spielen  wird.

Spenser schrieb am 29.04.2009 00:06 Uhr:
Soll seit 16.04. im Kino laufen....