“The Legend” Teaser Poster
Jackie Chan (The Foreigner) is re-teaming with Hong Kong director Stanley Tong (Rumble in the Bronx) for The Legend, which is a sequel to their 2005 collaboration, The Myth.
The legendary action star has reportedly started filming the upcoming sequel, alongside actress Gülnezer Bextiyar/Guli Nazha (Don’t Forget I Love You), in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (via MAAC).
In the original film, Jackie played an archeologist who keeps having reoccurring dreams of a past life, where he is the great general Meng Yi, who is sworn to protect a princess named Ok-Soo.
Jackie Chan and Stanley Tong created magic together in a string of some of Chan’s most loved films of the 90s, including 1992’s Police Story 3: Supercop, 1995’s Rumble in the Bronx and 1996’s Police Story 4: First Strike. Their most recent collaboration was 2017’s Kung Fu Yoga and 2020’s Vanguard. In fact, their collaboration was the subject of last year’s retrospective, Jackie Chan & Stanley Tong: Giving the People What They Want.
We’ll keep you updated on The Legend as we learn more. Until then, check out a New Preview for the movie below:
I’d rather they do country for a Warner Archive uncut, original language Rumble in the Bronx.
Commentary.
I’d rather see them doing nothing together, as Kung fu Yoga was one of the most excruciatingly bad movies in both their careers. I have no intentions of seeing Vanguard as well, sticking to his old classics, than the recent rubbish he put on screen.
Yeah, you’re not missing much. I saw it last year, don’t remember anything other than the handsome dudes sharing the screen with Jackie or the shoddy CGI.
Looking forward to this. Thought The Myth would have been a better sequel to Armour of God than CZ12. Jackie has a lot of rumored films upcoming hope to see this one get made. Also I want to see a proper Blu Ray / 4k UHD Rumble release too but don’t think Jackie has anything to do with that getting done.
Great, finally a chance for a wide audience to get to know the carefree life of the people of this particular region.
Was First strike really a loved 90s JC movie. Even at the time it seemed subpar
Police story 3 is a little overrated (s… my …, Quentin). Hey, 88 Films/Eureka, the full cut of First strike would be a nice thing to put out…
the only good thing about the original cut of First Strike is that …yes ot confirms its the same Chan Ka Kui character from 1-3. Apart from that its about 40 mins longer and more zzzzzzzzzz
This. One of the few instances were less is more. The U.S. cut got rid of a lot of unnecessary stuff.
I don’t know about that. It certainly wasn’t Chekhov, and had some corny dialogue, but the cut footage had a certain charm to it.
They shouldn’t be doing anything together anymore, but I’m sure there’s a great payday for them!
We are way past the days when Stanley showed what he was made of with Stone Age Warriors. That’s a film that needs to be released uncut and remastered!
They need one more sheety movie so that 88 films can release a trilogy boxset of sh1te featuring this, Vanguard and Kungfu Yoga.
‘Bleeding Steel’ would be a more than worthy candidate to make that boxset a reality already!
So we are gonna act like Kung Fu Yoga wasn’t exactly that? It was a sequel to the myth directed by Stanley tong.
I prefer this new film’s alternate title, “The Fuckness.”
Why so angry LOL Jackie is 70 year old man, he is a living legend. He broken his body to deliver us solid action stuff during 80s and 90s, and at his current age
he still making films. You want him to make stuff like in a good old days? Really? LoL
No, I don’t want him to make stuff like in the good old days … in fact, I want him to stop trying to! He should move onto something other than action movies, like serious, well written dramas, maybe crime dramas, hell, maybe romantic comedies (with leading ladies somewhere close to his own age!)! He needs to take a hint from Clint Eastwood & stop trying to be a lesser version of his youthful self!
Did I say that anywhere?
I’d settle for him making good moves in old age rather than stuff like in the good old days, but judging by that clip this isn’t going to be either.
Looks like Jackie is guest-starring in his own movie again. Yeah not liking the look of this at all. But then I hated the first one as well.
I still want the otiginal KH cut of First strike (OK, with BOTH cuts) or…let people out of the USA cut their sh… 150′ blockbusters to an acceptable 90 minutes. Well, in fact I don’t care, since it’s been a few years I don’t watch ’em aymore…