“The Forbidden Kingdom” (功夫之王) is the first film collaboration between 2 Asian superstars - Jackie Chan and Jet Li. The martial arts fantasy movie is scheduled to premier in April 2008.
Movie trailer of The Forbidden Kingdom
The movie is directed by Rob Minkoff; starring Jackie and Jet, Michael Angarano, Crystal Liu, Li Bingbing and Collin Chou etc.
The official story plot is not yet released. From my understanding, here is how it goes…
Jason, a Boston teenager (Michael Angarano) who is obsessed with martial arts movies, has found a mysterious golden staff in a Chinese pawnshop and was transported by mysterious power back to ancient China.Jason then meets with Kungfu master Lu Yan (Jackie Chan), who told him that according to a legend, a foreigner would come with a secret weapon to rescue the Monkey King from the evil Jade Emperor (Collin Chou)… and that Jason is the person (with the golden staff).
Jason and Lu then started their adventure, and on the way meet with a silent monk (Jet Li) and Golden Sparrow (Crystal Liu). All these people have different agenda but with one same goal, to destroy the Jade Emperor…
Frankly, I don’t really like the story line; and it’s quite bizarre that The Forbidden Kingdom is an English movie despite with mainly Chinese cast. Still, having Jackie and Jet in the same movie is already a good enough reason to get me into the cinema… will see how it goes in April 2008.
The Forbidden Kingdom - starring Jackie Chan and Jet Li