You read that correctly folks, on 12-12-12 Jackie Chan will be retiring from big action films with a movie that he’s put his heart and soul into, Chinese Zodiac. Keep in mind that he is not retiring from action films altogether, he just won’t be doing all the death defying stunts which he is so famous for and not in big films. In order to go out with a bang, Chan decided to write, star, direct and produce this final action “epic” of sorts.
“For the last ten years I’ve been choosing the director to direct me. This one I direct myself.” he said. “I hope this movie, 20 years later, people still remember it. For me, for the audience, for my future, for my history — it’s very important.”
I’m actually surprised people misinterpreted his comments about retiring because in the below he says he’s still going to do action films, just not massive ones:
“I’ve been fighting and doing action films all my life, you’ve got to find a point to stop. With this movie I’m the director, I’m the writer, I’m the producer. So okay, I think it’s a good time to announce that it’s my last big action movie. I would still do action movies but not a big one like this.”
He also mentions the toll the films have taken on his body:
“It hurts, it really hurts. The shoulder, the ankle, it really hurts. You don’t know because I still look healthy… They say ‘no, you’re still young, you can still do it,’ but I have to stop one day.”
All I can say is well done Mr. Chan. You’re going out exactly the way you want too, by your own rules and under your own guidance, that’s not something many people have done or can do.
As a massive Jackie Chan fan I cannot wait for the day I can see this on the big screen. It’s taken way too long for Jackie to make a movie in English that I’ve actually wanted to see as all of his good films have been excellent products of China (which is not a bad thing at all). The action in the trailer looks great, the jokes are funny and his character Asian Hawk is officially back!
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