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Doug Liman](Doug Liman | Moviefone) – long a fan of misfits and outsiders (from ‘Go’ to ‘Bourne’) – has decided to join with producers Rob Reiner and Alan Greisman and the Beijing Galloping Horse Film & TV Production company to direct a 1920s drama about Two-Gun Cohen, the British bodyguard to Sun Yat-sen, leader of the rebels who overthrew China’s last imperial dynasty. Liman told The Hollywood Reporter that a trip last year to China opened his eyes to making movies in that country … and that he was drawn to the story of Morris Abraham “Two Gun” Cohen (1887-1970), a London-born WWI veteran who moved to China in 1922 and took a job training Sun Yat-sen’s army in boxing and shooting, despite his inability to speak Chinese. “He’s a thief and a con man who goes to China with visions of self-agg*****zement, but while he’s there he falls for the country and for a woman,” Liman said. “The story falls off the shelf without having to twist the facts.”
Ian McShane](Ian McShane | Moviefone) has been added to the growing cast of New Line and Legendary’s ‘Jack the Giant Killer,’](Jack the Giant Slayer (2013) - Movie | Moviefone) a reimagining of the fairy tale in which the kidnapping of a princess threatens a long-standing truce between men and giants. Nicholas Hoult plays the male lead, a young farmer who heads a dangerous expedition to the giant kingdom to rescue her. Eleanor Tomlinson plays the princess; McShane will play her father, King Braunwell. Ewan McGregor, Stanley Tucci, Bill Nighy and John Kassir also have parts in the film, which is being directed by Bryan Singer. Variety]