Jackie Chan is The Spy Next Door
The Spy Next Door (2010) Movie — By Nix on August 5, 2008
What’s that, you say, you want more Jackie Chan hijinks? Didn’t get enough of that with “The Forbidden Kingdom” and the third “Rush Hour” movie? Well you’re in luck, kids, because the Jackster has just signed up to star in a new action-comedy for Relativity Media called “The Spy Next Door”. That’s right, Jackie is in yet another Hollywood movie where he will grab a big fat paycheck, then run home to Hong Kong to moan about how American movies suck. You go, Jackie!
More on the sure-to-be-goofy film from THR:
Robert Simonds, a longtime comedy producer on such movies as “The Pink Panther” and the Adam Sandler films “The Wedding Singer” and “Big Daddy,” will produce. Solon So will executive produce. Relativity’s Ryan Kavanaugh will produce, and Tucker Tooley will exec produce.
Jonathan Bernstein and Jim Greer are penning the screenplay for “Spy,” which centers on a man (Chan) who is called to baby-sit his neighbor’s children and winds up having to fight off secret agents after one of the kids inadvertently downloads a secret code.
Relativity Media’s Brian Levant, who last directed the genius that was “Are We There Yet?” is set to direct “The Spy Next Door”. No doubt a gaggle of really cute kids will be cast to gaze quizzically at Jackie as he attempts to phonetically speak his English dialogue. Uncle Jackie is not, as it were, proficient in the English language.
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While I totally agree with the ribbing you give Jackie in the first paragraph (Jet Li did the same thing in the Chinese press re: The Forbidden Kingdom), I have to say it’s a pretty cheap shot to go after the man’s English pronunciation skills. He speaks it way better than I can speak Cantonese, that’s for sure. Not flamebait, just my 2¢.
Geez. The man only has so many years of action movies left and he wastes them on Hollywood crap that he himself dislikes.
This movie is going to be great. I would really love to be a part of this movie. I am an asian male teenager that just turned 18 and I just graduated from acting school. Jackie Chan been my idol ever since I was a little kid and it would be a dream come true if I could star in a movie with him.