The Myth

Dir: Stanley Tong
Scrs: Stanley Tong, Wang Hui-ling, Li Haishu
Stunt Choreographers: Jackie Chan, Stanley Tong, Yuen Tak
Prod Cos: JCE Movies, China Film Group
Cast: Jackie Chan, Kim Hee Seon, Tony Leung Ka-fai, Sun Zhou, Shao Bing
2005 | Colour | DCP | Cantonese, Mandarin, English & Korean | Chi & Eng Subtitles | 122min

International action icon Jackie Chan reunites with long-time collaborator Stanley Tong in The Myth, a genre-blending masterpiece that fuses action, comedy, science fiction, and romance. This globe-trotting adventure is as gripping as its spectacular visual effects. Filmed across stunning locations in China and India, including the Emperor Qinshihuang's  Mausoleum Site Museum in Xi'an, it also features a splendid floating palace rendered with cutting-edge CGI. With a truly international cast, including Korean star Kim Hee Seon and Bollywood-to-Hollywood actress Mallika Sherawat, the film offers blockbuster thrills and a time-transcending, terracotta-themed romance that echoes Dream Lovers (1986).

Jackie Chan plays dual roles: Jack, a modern-day archaeologist haunted by dreams of a past life, and Meng Yi, a loyal Qin dynasty general tasked with escorting Korean Princess Ok Soo (Kim Hee Seon) to China for a political alliance. Though Meng Yi and Ok Soo fall for each other, duty keeps them apart. Tragedy strikes when Meng Yi is sent to retrieve the emperor’s elixir of life, but fate has other plans. Two thousand years later, Jack and his scientist friend William (Tony Leung Ka-fai), on a mission to locate a gravity-defying meteorite, arrive at a mythical floating palace hidden in the Qin emperor’s mausoleum. There waits Ok Soo, kept alive by the elixir, having waited centuries for Meng Yi who is now reincarnated as Jack.

Courtesy of Emperor Motion Pictures

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