The trailer for action-comedy Hidden Strike starring John Cena and Jackie Chan has finally arrived. The film has been years in the making and with changing titles and cast members along the way.
It was originally announced in 2017 as Ex-Baghdad, at which point the central double-act was Chan and Sylvester Stallone. Stallone was out and Cena came in a year later, when the title became Project X-Traction.
At another point it was titled SNAFU (an acronym for Status Nominal: All Fucked Up). The plot has stayed the same, though – Chan is playing a Chinese private security contractor called into extract oil workers from a China-run oil refinery in the Middle East when it’s attacked. But that’s a smokescreen for an oil heist, and Chan’s character needs the help of an American former Marine (Cena) to stop the thieves.
Arash Amel wrote the screenplay, and the director is Scott Waugh, the former stuntman who made Act Of Valor, Need For Speed and the upcoming Expendables 4.
There’s no release date confirmed for Hidden Strike so far, but it will blast onto our screens later this year.
Source: Empire
