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Martin Campbell to direct Jackie Chan in Chinatown thriller

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British director Martin Campbell (Casino Royale, Goldeneye), is in talks to direct Jackie Chan in a new thriller that was previously titled The Foreigner. The movie, from China-backed STX Entertainment, revolves around “a restaurant owner in London’s Chinatown who is tracking down a group of Irish terrorists responsible for the death of his daughter.”

The movie did have actor/director Nick Cassavettes at the helm, but he doesn’t seem to be attached to the project at all now. The movie, which is being produced by China-based backers STX Entertainment, is based on a book named The Chinaman by Stephen Leather, which was first published back in 2008. We found the full synopsis for it on Amazon.

[quote_box_center]The Chinaman understood death.

Jungle-skilled, silent and lethal, he had killed for the Viet Cong and then for the Americans. He had watched helpless when his two eldest daughters had been raped and killed by Thai pirates.

Now all that was behind him. Quiet, hard-working and unassuming, he was building up his South London take-away business.

Until the day his wife and youngest daughter were destroyed by an IRA bomb in a Knightsbridge department store.

Then, simply but persistently, he began to ask the authorities who were the men responsible, what was being done. And was turned away, fobbed off, treated as a nuisance.

Which was when the Chinaman, denied justice, decided on revenge. And went back to war.[/quote_box_center]

Chan is attached to a number of upcoming projects, including sequels to Rush Hour and The Karate Kid, but we do love him in these Eastern action movies, and with a skilled Western action director at the helm, The Chinaman, or The Foreigner or whatever they decide to call it, seems like an interesting prospect.

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