ISIS ex-bastion in Syria hosts Jackie Chan film shoot

Jackie Chan faces flak for using a bombed Syrian suburb as set for Chinese propaganda film

Jackie Chan has been accused of helping to normalise the Syrian regime after using a Damascus suburb bombed by Bashar al-Assad as the set for a Chinese propaganda film.

Jackie Chan-produced action movie films in devastated Syrian city

The decision to produce a film glorifying China’s Communist party in a town destroyed by civil war has been described as ‘appallingly bad taste’

Jackie Chan Produces Movie in Syrian Town Destroyed by Assad Regime

Pro-Beijing action movie legend Jackie Chan angered Syrians and human rights activists this weekend by producing a movie that reportedly filmed scenes in Hajar al-Aswad, a town leveled by dictator Bashar Assad and occupied by Islamic State forces during the Syrian civil war.

Former ISIS bastion becomes setting for Jackie Chan film

Ruins of a former Islamic State stronghold become a setting for a Chinese film on the civil war in Yemen

Jackie Chan under fire for using bombed Syrian town as film set

Activists are angry at the actor for filming in destroyed neighbourhoods ‘as if nothing has happened in order to make money’

Destroyed Syrian town used as set for Jackie Chan-produced action movie, Chinese ambassador visits

by Maher Al MounesA ghost town since a 2018 operation to flush out jihadists, Hajar al-Aswad near the Syrian capital has come back to life as the location of a Jackie Chan-produced action movie.“Home Operation” is inspired by China’s 2015 evacuation of Chinese and other foreign citizens from the war in Yemen, an operation that was seen as a landmark for Beijing.Actors are pictured in the Hajar al-Aswad neighbourhood of the Syrian capital Damascu…