Finally, I get to see those two in one movie. They got together to star in the upcom­ing movie The For­bid­den King­dom – for­merly known as The J & J project – which is about an Amer­i­can teenager trav­el­ing back through time to ancient China. Obvi­ously, he doesn’t do so because he planned it but rather because he got his hands on a leg­endary weapon that once belonged to the Mon­key King. The offi­cial site doesn’t have any­thing on it at all but the lat­est trailer which is also avail­able in HD over at Apple. Accord­ing to IMDB the movie will be open­ing in the US on April 18th, 2008.

This is the first col­lab­o­ra­tion between mar­tial arts vet­er­ans Jackie Chan and Jet Li. Chan will act as a drunken kung fu mas­ter while Li slips into the role of a silent monk who doesn’t talk much. This was quite unex­pected. I always hoped to watch both of them come together in one movie and now the time has arrived. Truth be told, I hoped for them to star in the upcom­ing movie adap­ta­tion of the very pop­u­lar video game Tekken. I’m afraid that’s not going to hap­pen if this report can be believed.