Orlando Bloom To Star In Shanghai Action Thriller, SMART CHASE: FIRE AND EARTH

Actor Orlando Bloom will be setting up shop in China later this year with the emergence of BlissBloom Productions - created between Bloom's Viddywell Productions banner and China's own Bliss Media. For this, word from Variety broke last week that the actor and star of the upcoming Pirates Of The Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales, will star and co-produce in Smart Chase: Fire And Earth, news accompanied by the very teaser poster you see above from the festival.

Night Fare (2015) helmer Julien Seri will direct from a script by Elephant White (2011) scribe Kevin Bernhardt which tells of a washed-up private security agent who gets ambushed as he attempts to escort a pricey Chinese antique out of Shanghai. Also starring are Special ID (2013) and The Great Wall (2016) co-star Jing Tian with actors Leo Wu, Cao Kefan and up-and-comer Liu Enyou. Filming commences in August with Bliss Media financing, producing and overseeing its China release with The Odyssey (2016) helmer Jérôme Salle co-producing.