“Railroad Tigers” is set in 1941, with Chan starring as railroad worker Ma Yuan, who leads a team of fearless fighters to stop the Japanese war effort.
“Jackie Chan continues to be a mainstay with audiences, and ‘Railroad Tigers’ delivers what his fans love,” said Doris Pfardrescher, president and CEO of Well Go USA Entertainment.
The film is an action-packed martial arts comedy that brings Chan back to his Drunken Master days.
On Thursday, Chan was chosen as one of the recipients of the 2016 Governors Awards by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
“After making his motion picture debut at the age of eight, Chan brought his childhood training with the Peking Opera to a distinctive international career,” read the AMPAS press release.
Since “Rumble in the Bronx” in 1996, he has gone on to enormous worldwide success with the ‘Rush Hour’ movies, ‘Shanghai Noon,’ ‘Shanghai Knights,’ ‘Around the World in 80 Days,’ ‘The Karate Kid’ and the ‘Kung Fu Panda’ series of animated films.
