Jackie Chan Starts Working On LEGEND / MYTH With Director Stanley Tong (MonkeyPeaches Exclusive)

According to Hong Kong media, Jackie Chan has started working on a new project, financed by his JCE Movies Ltd., with director Stanley Tong in Hong Kong a couple of days ago. Jackie Chan told Oriental Daily, that the title for the film could be Legend or Myth, but he was not ready to accept either one of them. The project was formerly known as Time Breaker, derived from Titanium Rain, which has dried up a year ago. Shooting will be wrapped up in a few days and re-start in Shanghai later next month. Jackie Chan is still looking for the right actress to play the character repeatedly shows up in the dreams of Jackie Chan's character, a time-traveler.

(Thanks to Marie M for the reminder.)

February 12, 2004

Teaser Poster Of Jackie Chan's TIME BREAKER (Media Asia Group)

October 10, 2003

Media Asia Group

Hong Kong's Media Asia has put the teaser poster of Time Break on its official site. It shows a warrior, fully armored, holding a sword and wearing a watch. It is supposed to be Jackie Chan. Lower part of the poster is the skyline of Shanghai, though not a newest skyline. Does this mean anything? The original idea is something like Jackie Chan's character, a Chinese warrior, chasing a Japanese samurai from ancient time to our time. But now the plot has been changed to a guy from present day traveling back to ancient time. Title of the project has also been changed from Titanium Rain to the current one. Also changed, The production is currently in halt and no one is cast except Jackie Chan, but director Stanley Tong has been working on the pre-production for a while. Reportedly, Jackie Chan has learned something from The Medallion - he asked for a rework on the script to get more real action and less computer enhancement.

Jackie Chan Puts TIME BREAKER On Hold (Sci Fi Wire)

August 21, 2003

July 21, 2003

Director Stanley Tong is currently in China scouting locations for the upcoming Jackie Chan project TIME BREAKER, formerly known as TITANIUM RAIN. He has sit down and talked about the project with Chinese paper Shenyang Today. He side, "this is a film frequently shifting between the ancient time and the present days. It will have flashback to the ancient time and will go all the way back to Qin Dynasty (221 - 206 BC). I  Want to make the scenes of the ancient time look beautiful, because all Jackie Chan's works will be shown to the whole world and we can take this opportunity to show our beautiful sceneries to the international audiences and let them visiting China." Stanley Tong said Jackie Chan will start working on the project once he was done with AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 DAYS. In this film, Jackie Chan will "have a brand new look". He said it would be a love story (!!!) and Jackie Chan would be very gentle (!!!). Budgeted at US 35-40 million, the film is largely financed by Hong Kong's Media Asia.

Jackie Chan Goes To India, For TIME BREAKER? (Various)

June 14, 2003

Two Jackie Chan's Projects - TITANIUM RAIN Renamed TIME BREAKER And SHEN XUAN QI BING Postponed

(MonkeyPeaches Exclusive)

May 7, 2003

The TITANIUM RAIN teaser poster Photo: Media Asia	SHEN XUAN QI BING comic book Photo: King Comics

According to Reuters TV, Jackie Chan’s upcoming action flick TITANIUM RAIN has been renamed TIME BREAKER and is under major plot change. “While the original concept of TITANIUM RAIN was of a Chinese warrior who travels through time to modern-day America, Chan will play an intrepid adventurer a la Indiana Jones who gets transported back to a previous life when he goes after a valuable treasure.” John Chong, the general manager of Media Asia Films, said "the new concept will have a lot more Chinese cultural aspects and beliefs in it, such as the belief that our past, present and future lives are somewhat linked." Media Asia is looking for both international and Chinese partners on the US$40 million project. Shooting is expected to begin in August in the cities of Xi’an, Kunming and Beijing. But giving the circumstance of the SARS fear factor, I really doubt about the production will go as planned.

Related Link: 'Time' for Change in Chan Pic (Reuters TV / The Hollywood Reporter) (Thanks to Chris Vinh)

January 14, 2003

Director Stanley Tong told Hong Kong's Oriental Daily and its sister paper The Sun that shooting of TITANIUM RAIN will start after Jackie Chan is done with AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 DAYS. He said the pre-production should last at least half year  because it is a Jackie Chan's movie. In TITANIUM RAIN, Jackie Chan will play a Ming Dynasty cop traveling to the present day to capture a Japanese thief.  Production will take place in Hong Kong, the Mainland China, the US and India.

About his version of HUA MULAND, Stanley Tong has picked a Chinese American to play this fictional ancient Chinese heroine. He refused to say who she was but it was not Lucy Liu (probably not Kelly Hu either.  Could be Vivian Wu). Stanley Tong will fly to the US to nail the deal with her later this month.

Tianjin Daily just had a telephone interview with Stanley Tong, who is scouting locations for both films in Guangxi Region. He said the script of TITANIUM RAIN still needed to be worked on and many plots like the time-traveling would be altered. He has been thinking about letting Jackie Chan play two characters. The film will be some kind of comedy similar to RUMBLE IN THE BRONX and the shooting has been pushed back to June.

It looks like, among three MULANs, Stanley Tong's version is moving ahead of the other two. This US$25 million English language project, co-produced by Stanley Tong and China Film Corp., will goes into production by the end of the coming February. He said his MULAN will be very close to the history (though Mulan is a fictional character) and is definitely different from CROUCHING TIGER, HIDDEN DRAGON and the Disney animation. About the rumor that Lucy Liu being cast for Hua Mulan, Stanley Tong only said who would play Mulan was a secret. If everything goes as plan, Stanley Tong will make two films simultaneously sometime next year and he is hoping to wrap them up by the end of 2003.

Michelle Yoeh has postponed the production of her version of MULAN and will play a superhero type of person in THE MASKED CRUSADER first. The North American release of THE TOUCH has also been pushed back while redoing some of its CG effects. A third MULAN, co-production with a Korean studio and Shanghai Studio, has also run into some script problem.

According to Hong Kong media, Stanley Tong has replaced Jingle Ma as the director of TITANIUM RAIN, Jackie Chan's upcoming sci-fi time-traveling flick. Stanley Tong has worked with Jackie Chan in RUMBLE IN THE BROMX and FIRST STRIKE.

Thanks to Cass for reminding me