Jackie Chan and John Cena are teaming up for a new action entertainer tentatively titled 'Project X' for which the former also seves as a producer. The film will be directed by Scott Waugh who recently helmed 'Need for Speed'. Cena has replaced Sylvester Stallone who was previously attached to the project.

According to Variety, the movie centers on a Chinese private security contractor (Chan) who is called in to extract the oil workers when a China-run oil refinery in the Middle East is attacked. When he learns that the attackers’ real plan is to steal a fortune in oil, he teams up with an American — a former Marine played by John Cena — to stop them.

The Chan and Cena combo is seen as an electrifying one as the latter too like the former is adept in both hardcore action and comedy as witnessed in the latest hit 'Blockers'.