Originally published on ProWrestlingSheet.

Jackie Chan and John Cena are teaming up for a new action movie, after Sylvester Stallone dropped out of the project for undisclosed reasons. 

The action thriller's working title is Project X, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The plot centers around a Chinese private security contractor (Chan) who teams up with a former Marine (Cena) to stop attackers planning to steal oil from a refinery in the Middle East. 

In case you've been living under a rock, Cena is quickly becoming a hot commodity in entertainment.

His show Dallas & Robo recently premiered on YouTube Red, he'll soon be seen in the Transformers spinoffBumblebee, he's in tons of commercials and has more movie projects in the works.

No word at this time on when Project X begins filming.

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