Chan said his manager thought the role would be good but told him the amount of dialogue was too tough.Ĭhan said that although the part would have been difficult, he does regret turning it down because he lost an opportunity to work with Kidman and a chance to burnish his legacy. That also held him back from pursuing a role in “The Interpreter,” a 2005 thriller starring Nicole Kidman and Sean Penn. my English is not that good,” Chan explains. “Because the audience is just not used to seeing Jackie Chan doing drama.”Ĭhan’s ideal roles would be in films such as 1988 Oscar-winner “Rain Man,” which starred Dustin Hoffman as a savant and Tom Cruise as his yuppie brother together on a road trip, or 1982’s “Tootsie,” also starring Hoffman as an actor who dresses as a woman to land acting roles. After all, her oath to serve and defend has no limitations and no expiry date.“Why?” he asks rhetorically with a sigh.
But Dunmoore won't accept that they aren't worth saving even if it puts her at cross-purposes with her new commanding officer and the Commonwealth's fearsome security bureau.
Powerful forces within the Commonwealth would call a handful of lives collateral damage in humanity's existential struggle against the Shrehari Empire. Along the way, she crosses paths with an old foe and an uncertain ally as she and her crew race against time and determined opposition to rescue innocent civilians condemned merely because they were in the wrong place at the wrong moment. What is the value of one life in an interstellar war that has already claimed millions? And if that single life doesn't matter, are any others worth saving?Ī distress signal draws Siobhan Dunmoore's Q-ship Iolanthe, a battlecruiser disguised as a bulk freighter, away from her devastatingly successful hunt through Shrehari occupied space and plunges Dunmoore into a dark, merciless universe of competing government organizations, undercover warfare, and organized crime on a galactic scale.
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