BIGThe drama will be directed by Rod Lurie (The Contender, The Last Castle) and will be filmed in Calgary.
Hartnett will play a young journalist who is writing a story about a former boxing champion, played by Jackson. The film is expected to be in theatres sometime in 2007.
The 57 year-old actor told IOL that he doesn’t think that he can compete with 20 year-old actors with stunts. He says: "I don’t know how much longer I want to be running and jumping, chasing people and shooting at them."
"I don’t want to be going hand-to-hand with some 20-year-old and have people say, ‘He can’t fight a 20-year-old. Homeboy’s got about 20 seconds of real hard fightin’ in him before he’s out of breath and had to rest a minute.’"
Jackson stars in the action film Freedomland, which opens next month.
Jackson (Pulp Fiction, Star Wars) plays the role of an American Federal Agent who gets mixed up with a dental salesman to solve a murder.
The cast of the comedy, directed by Les Mayfield (American Outlaws, Blue Streak, Flubber), also includes Eugene Levy, Miguel Ferrer, Luke Goss, Anthony Mackie, Susie Essman, Horatio Sanz and Rachel Crawford.
The Man opens on September 9th.
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It is a movie about car robberies, and a kidnapping that happens in a quiet neighbourhood. It will be in theatres in January.
Freedomland is being directed by Joe Roth (America’s Sweethearts, Christmas with the Kranks), in the streets of New York.
Jackson says, "They’re in my office, in different places. I have a FROZONE doll (from The Incredibles) on my desk that looks down on me as I’m working on the computer."
"I’ve got a Shaft doll that totally looks like me that’s over in the corner looking over at the MACE WINDU (Star Wars) doll. The first Mace Windu doll didn’t look like me at all. Now they look a lot more like me because George (Lucas) actually scanned all of them which means if he really wanted to make another movie 20 years later he could use my digital image.", he added.
Shooting for the movie, directed by David Ellis (Final Destination 2, Cellular) begins in May.
Jackson would play an FBI agent in pursuit of a mob boss. He finds trouble when he boards a plane to Los Angeles that is carrying a bomb.
Jackson is getting ready to begin filming Freedomland, by Joe Roth, and costarring Julianne Moore. He’ll be on the silver screen soon in XXX: State of the Union and Star Wars: Episode III Revenge of the Sith.