Legendary martial arts icon Jackie Chan (The Shadow’s Edge, The Foreigner) will soon begin work on Pawfect Agents, an upcoming action-comedy that re-teams Jackie with his Bleeding Steel director, Leo Zhang (Chrysanthemum to the Beast). Following the footsteps of 2024’s Panda Plan and its sequel, Pawfect Agents will be a live-action/CG hybrid feature.
The film – from LinKEY Sanxing and Zhang’s Shangjia Film companies, with Cappu Films handling sales – follows a veteran agent (Chan) on the verge of retirement who is pulled back into the field after the Sanxingdui Golden Mask – one of China’s most prized national treasures – is targeted by an international theft operation. The reluctant hero pairs with a technologically advanced spy dog on a chase across continents, from Europe back to China. The project draws inspiration from action spectacles that blend live-action performance with animated characters (via Variety).
Alongside Pawfect Agents, Jackie Chan has another project in the pipeline, Retired Cop (also being sold by Cappu Films). In it, he stars as a veteran Hong Kong officer on the verge of retirement who heads to Canada to reunite with his family, only to get drawn into one final showdown when a conspiracy puts his son in danger.
Production for Pawfect Agents is set to begin in October, with a theatrical release targeted for 2027. We’ll keep you updated on both of these projects as more news emerges.
Just for the heck of it, we leave you with a fight scene from 1981’s Cannonball Run:
