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Stars: Jackie Chan, Wei Xiang, Han Yanbo, Temur Mamisashvili, Shi Ce | Written by Meng Yida, Xu Wei | Directed by Zhang Luan

Panda Plan (aka Xiong Mao Ji Hua) opens on a highly meta note as action star Jackie Chan, played by Jackie Chan takes out an entire squad of terrorists while filming a scene for his latest film. After wondering if he’s supposed to be playing a superhero, he and his agent David review a list of possible off-screen activities. That list includes a housewarming party at Stallone’s new mansion and a celebrity golf tournament.

Jackie passes on all of them to accept an offer from the Noah Zoo to adopt Big Babe, their media star baby panda. What they don’t know is that the leader of what appears to be the evil equivalent of The Untouchables has been offered $100,000,000 to pandanap Big Babe.

With his right hand man James in charge,...

While the world takes a break from Po after the release of Kung Fu Panda 4, Jackie Chan is ready to pick up the bamboo torch with Panda Plan, an upcoming action film starring the legendary martial artist in what looks like a family-friendly, animal cruelty-free flurry of fists and fur. Today’s Panda Plan trailer finds the 70-year-old Chan playing a version of himself alongside a panda bear co-star, with mercenaries and madcap comedy along for the wild ride.

Chinese filmmaker Zhang Luan directed Panda Plan from a script he co-wrote with Meng Yida and Wei Xu. In the Panda Plan trailer, a rare panda with a dark circle under one eye becomes a worldwide sensation when he’s born at China’s Noah Zoo. However, when a Middle Eastern tycoon fancies the panda, he sends international mercenaries to kidnap the zoo’s new embarrassment of pandas. Chan, playing a version of himself,...