The legendary Jackie Chan has been tapped to star in Ding Sheng's (Little Big Soldier, Police Story: Lockdown) new action-comedy Railroad Tigers.
The martial arts film is set in 1941 as Chan plays a railroad worker who leads a band of fighters to derail the Japanese war effort by using his knowledge of the train network, ambushing soldiers and stealing supplies to feed starving Chinese people. The unlikely crew of heroes is in turn referred to as "Railroad Tigers" by the Chinese locals.
Huang Zitao, Wang Kai and Darren Wang star alongside Chan in Railroad Tigers, which is due in theaters next month.