Jackie Chan movies are often characterized by three things: Exciting martial arts fights, stunts that are not for the faint of heart, and comedy. The world’s most famous martial arts actor, director and stuntman, he is famous for doing most of his own stunts as well as acting in and producing some of the best martial arts action films of all time. Since began his film career as a stuntman in the Bruce Lee films “Fist of Fury” (1972) and “Enter the Dragon” (1973) to “Drunken Master” that finally propelled him to mainstream success, Chan has both directed and starred in a string of international hits, delivered to the screen, time after time, movies that thrill the audiences. His charm is being able to use his enormous skills in martial arts, combined with a down to earth nature that keeps moviewatchers both laughing and sitting on the edge of their chairs. Now to commemorate the 100th film in his career, Chan will specially give a tribute to the 100th anniversary of the “Xinhai Revolution”. The epoch-making event that had far reaching consequences for the fate of the Chinese people, the historical affair that also known as the Revolution of 1911 has brought an end to imperial Qing dynasty rule in China and also represented the birth of Asia’s first republic. A hugely important milestone on China’s road to modernization, emancipated the people from the rule of the feudal system, it is also of remarkable significance for the development of global politics. But according to the scriptwriter, Wang Xingdong, the film is not a propaganda movie but rather takes its central theme which is the love story between the two main characters. It’s their story that runs throughout the movie, tying all the disparate 'historical' bits together. Eventhough this film is directed by Zhang Li, a well-known cinematographer from such movies as "A World Without Thieves", "The Banquet" and "Red Cliff", but Chan has been given the position of 'Supervising Director' in honor and respect for his experience. Chan contributed a great deal of expert advice and directed some battle scenes as well as contributed to the stunts. Meanwhile, about Chan’s role in this film, it will be a dramatic one. Chan will portray a military officer in battle but without his signature acrobatic martial arts. From the trailer, Chan indeed looks extremely serious in this film, however, when he’s serious, he actually gives us an amazing performance so I’m feeling good about this one. “Xinhai Revolution” also has attracted many well-liked names in Chinese movie industry to join the cast including Taiwanese actor Winston Chao who will deliver his fourth appearance as the Founding Father of Republican China, Dr Sun Yat-sen, Chinese rising actress and singer Li Bingbing (Forbidden Kingdom, Detective Dee), Chinese veteran actress Joan Chen, actor and pop singer Hu Ge, Chan’s own son Jaycee Chan, famous Chinese actress Jiang Wenli, and young actor Yu Shaoqun (Chinese Fairy Tale) to veteran Sun Honglei (The Warring States) and Wang Xueqi (Reign of Assassins).

 By October 1911, it was clear that the end of dynastic rule in China was imminent. Sun Yat Sen's men had just successfully infiltrated the most modern military army in China in Wuchang, Hubei. As his revolutionary ideas of "nationalism, democracy, and people's livelihood" spread among the officers and the soldiers, they led their own coup after an investigation following a bomb accident threatened many of them with imprisonment. The weakened Qing government based in the north took several weeks to respond to the coup in the south, allowing the revolutionaries time to not only declare the secession of Hubei, but also for them to influence other provinces to do the same. And so on January 1, 1912, delegates from the fifteen provinces who had seceded declared Sun Yat Sen the first Provisional President of the Republic of China, using Nanjing as their capital city. General Yuan Shikai, leader of the Qing's new armies, seeing this turn of events, decided to side with the revolutionaries and entered into a compact with them to remove the authority of the Qing court. But it would take another revolution, two world wars, and yet another internal clash before the People's Republic of China as we know it today would finally be established.

Facts behind the revolutionary film:

# Major scenes taken place on a set built inside the National Mine Park in Fuxin. Once Asia's largest open pit coal mine, the site was picked as a guarantee that no modern buildings would be included in the shots.

# Both Chan and Li Bingbing spoke about how difficult filming conditions are in an open-cast coal mine set, and in particular at how dirty they get. Both spoke about going home black from head to toe. The coal dust gets into their teeth, nose, ears and more.

# Jaycee, Chan’s real life son, for the first time played Chan's son in the movie. In the story, Huang Xing took his 18 year old son into the battle at Xinhai with him.

# “Xinhai Revolution” has also filmed at Tianjin Experimental School, the site that’s known for its old historical buildings and has become a popular place to film historical movies.

# Winston Chao already portrayed Dr Sun Yat-sen three times in film: “The Soong Sisters”, “Road to Dawn” and “Xinhai Revolution aka 1911”, and one time in television series: “Sun Zhong Shan”.

# Originally, Chan's 100th film was expected to be “Armor of God 3: Chinese Zodiac”, but it was later pushed back to open in 2012.

# The script of this film has won the prize from the Fourth Annual Chinese Writers Prize for Literature that held in Beijing early in 2011.