Jackie Chan's Gay Mobster Swings American

The recent Oscar win for The Departed has made U.S. remakes of Hong Kong movies a hot commodity, so it's probably no surprise that producer Andrew Tennenbaum (the Bourne trilogy) is set to make an American version of the Jackie Chan-produced Enter the Phoenix.

The Hong Kong action-comedy has a plot ripe with comedic potential: A powerful mobster dies, and his son is expected to take over as head of the mob.

But his son is flamboyantly gay and has no interest in the position, so his boyfriend takes over in his place, all the while keeping both men's sexual orientation a secret.

Perhaps we'll see some stunt-casting involving the actor who played gay Mafioso Vito on The Sopranos?

Phoenix is set to make us an offer we can't refuse in 2009.