Jackie Chan kicks ass with Katrina Kaif in new film set in Dubai

Published August 23rd, 2015 - 08:00 GMT
Jackie Chan is set to film his new blockbuster in Dubai. (Cloudpix.co)
Jackie Chan is set to film his new blockbuster in Dubai. (Cloudpix.co)

We never saw this one coming, but Jackie Chan and Bollywood actress Katrina Kaif are starring in a new movie together.

Not only that, but "Kung Fu Yoga" is set to be filmed in none other than Dubai, where Hollywood's Mission Impossible and Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps were shot in 2010 and 2011.

While India was originally pegged as the entire movie's filming location, its director Stanley Tong must have had a change of vision and picked the UAE instead.

In the action-adventure, Kaif, 32, plays the role of an Indian professor at a Chinese university. Meanwhile, 61-year-old Chan is seen as an archaeologist who seeks her help to find treasure from the Magadha era and they both travel back in time to find it.

The 2016 film, a part of three-movie deal between Indian and Chinese governments, will start shooting its first scenes in September. Let's hope the film crew aren't delayed driving from one location to another during Dubai's dreaded "Rush Hour"!!!

Interesting celebrity fact of the day: both Chan and Kaif were born in Hong Kong.

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