Michael Angarano ("Sky High," "Lords of Dogtown," TV's "Will and Grace") is in final negotiations to star alongside Jackie Chan and Jet Li in their untitled project says The Hollywood Reporter.

Angarano will play a troubled 17-year-old wannabe kung fu warrior who, after a humiliating defeat at the hands of a street gang, is sent back in time to ancient China on an impossible mission to set free the imprisoned Monkey King (Li) and return to him his all-powerful staff.

Rob Minkoff is directing, John Fusco wrote the script. The project is due to start filming in early May in China.