Jackie Chan, Stallone team up for action thriller

Los Angeles May 12 (IANS) Action stars Jackie Chan and Sylvester Stallone will team up for Ex-Baghdad an action thriller to be helmed by Scott Waugh.

It is an $80 million budget action film that becomes one of the biggest budget films to come out of China reports deadline.com.

Chan will serve as a producer through his company SR Media with Qi Jianhong and Talent International s Esmond Ren. SR Media and Talent International will also finance the film. Hans Canosa is also producing.

The film will bring the stars together for the first time.

When a China-run oil refinery is attacked in Mosul Iraq a Chinese private security contractor (Chan) is called in to extract the oil workers.

He learns however that the attackers real plan is to steal a fortune in oil and teams up with an American former Marine (Stallone) to stop them.

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