Remember when it looked like Jackie Chan was retiring awhile back? That hasn't come close to panning out and he's been busier than ever. While there are currently talks underway for a third Shanghai Noon film, Chan has also entered final negotiations to star in The Foreigner, an action-thriller eying a number of directors right now, including Nick Cassavetes (John Q). Based on Stephen Leather's book The Chinaman, and adapted by David Marconi (Enemy of the State), the story centers on "a humble restaurant owner in London’s Chinatown who is forced to push his moral and physical boundaries to track down the group of rogue Irish terrorists responsible for the death of his beloved daughter after the justice system fails him. " Filming is set to begin this October. [Deadline]
Justin Long is joining Abbie Cornish, Dermot Mulroney, and Diego Klattenhoff in Lavender, the psychological thriller to be directed by The Last Exorcism II's Ed Gass-Donnelly. Cornish plays a photographer suffering from severe memory loss after an accident, who begins to suspect she's responsible for the murders of family members she didn't know she had. Long will play the psychologist helping her recover lost memories.
