MUMBAI: Tiger Hu Chen, the stuntman associated with The Matrix series, has been tipped to star in a Chinese-language action drama Kung Fu Man. Also starring will be Vanessa Branch (Pirates Of The Caribbean series) and Chinese actress Jiang Mengjie.

Daxing Zhang, one of the producers on John Woo‘s Red Cliff and actor and kung-fu coordinator on the Charlie‘s Angels and The Matrix series, will produce.

Scheduled to start shooting on 28 October, Kung Fu Man will tell a contemporary story about a martial arts practitioner, who accidentally rescues a Caucasian boy from a foreign kidnapping group, and changes the boy‘s world perspective and values. Branch and Chyna McCoy (G.I. Joe) will play the villains.

The film will mainly be shot in the Yunnan province, as well as Hainan island and Hong Kong.