Jackie Chan fed up with Chan movies

Even Jackie Chan is fed up with formula Jackie Chan movies.

“I want to do something different,” the 49-year-old martial arts ace told journalists in New York.

His new film, the action comedy The Medallion, which is about a battle for a piece of jewellery with supernatural powers, showcases Chan as an immortal Hong Kong cop, leaping over buildings and running 40 miles an hour.

But Chan has other ambitions. “I want to be Robert De Niro,” he said. “Wow! He plays good, bad, comedy, the Devil.”

Already, Chan has completed a new version of Around The World In 80 Days, playing the sidekick Passepartout – Cantiflas’ role in the 1956 film – to Steve Coogan’s Phileas Fogg, and next year he plans to do a low-budget “pure drama. “Not even one punch,” he says.

“I want to do love stories, and that doesn’t just mean a girl and a man. It could be a brother, a father, an animal. You don’t have to have bed scenes or kissing scenes – although I wouldn’t mind, if they’re reasonable.

“I’m talking about movies like The Sound Of Music, movies children and women love.”

“I want to have fun, do things for myself. It doesn’t always have to be market, market, market.”