Jackie Chan and Sylvester Stallone are teaming up to star in the $80 million action thriller Ex-Baghdad.
When Stallone decided not to continue with The Expendables, this was the film he looked forward to doing instead.
Synopsis
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 along Baghdad’s ‘Highway of Death’ to the safety of the Green Zone. 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.
The script is by Arash Amel. Scott Waugh (“Need for Speed”) helms the film. Chan, Hans Canosa, Esmond Ren, and Joe Tam are producing the project which is a Chinese production but aimed at international audiences.
