Jackie Chan and Jet Li have finally confirmed their project to star in a movie together.
The movie will be based on Chinese epic, “Journey To The West.” Relativity Media will finance and Casey Silver the producer; Robert Minkoff (”The Lion King,” “Stuart Little”) the director, and Yuen Woo-Ping the action choreographer.
The actual title of the movie is not decided yet, so it’s still named as “J&J Project.” The production will cost US$70million and the filming is expected to start in April 2007.
Journey To The West is a fantasy novel about a monk, Xuan-Zang with his 3 disciples cum bodyguards (a monkey, pig and river monster) embarking on a journey to the west to find the Buddhist religious texts, Sutras.
The epic was based on the real life journey of Xuan-Zang to the East, but fictionalized with all the magical disciples and adventures; where the demons and evils want to eat Xuan-Zang believing that it will bring immortality.
It’s a long story; the movie will have to stream it real hard or perhaps just adapt part of the story, or make it into a trilogy.
Some Chinese News are saying that Jet Li will play the duo leading role as both Xuan-Zang and the monkey disciple (pic), while Jackie Chan will play as the river monster disciple. The news are however unconfirmed.
I wonder where did they manage to find the Jet Li’s monkey image? Computer edited perhaps…
Anyhow it’s great news for Asian movies fans, it’s great to see 2 of the biggest stars from Asia starring together. Hope that this is going to be a great movie.
November 6th, 2006 at 2:42 pm
The image looks Photoshopped. The face of Jet Li isn’t aligned with the monkey’s face.
Makes me wonder since there’s been a lot of talk going around that Fearless was his last movie.
November 6th, 2006 at 3:05 pm
Mark, you are probably right, I think it’s edited in some way.
The making of the movie is confirmed, no doubt about that.
Jet Li did say that Fearless is his last ACTION movie, seems like he’s eating his own words; but he and Jackie Chan actually plan to star together since years ago, and only can find the chance and time to work together now.. perhaps we can forgive him for breaking his promise.
Jet Li and Jackie Chan seems like a good combination, hope to watch a good production from them.
November 21st, 2006 at 12:50 am
I think Jet Li only said that Fearless was his last gongfu movie in relevance to Chinese boxers (eg. Wong Fei Hong, Huo Yuan Jia, Fang Shi Yu, etc) to promote the Chinese martial arts spirit. I don’t recall him saying that it was his last movie though…
November 21st, 2006 at 9:03 am
True, Jet Li said that Fearless will be his last action based movie, but not the last movie.