Jackie Chan has said he wants to work with his troubled son Jaycee on a movie and an album, after being inspired by the bond between his Karate Kid co-star Jaden Smith and his father Will.

The action star admitted the collaboration could help the pair mend their relationship, following Jaycee’s jail stint on a drug charge.

Jaycee Chan
Jaycee Chan was jailed for drug charges (Andy Wong/AP)

Jackie said: “Before, I was too Chinese, traditional – you, son, go away, I don’t want to help you, you have to help yourself,” but he changed his mind when filming the remake of The Karate Kid alongside Will’s teenage son Jaden.

The Rush Hour star was struck seeing Will “helping his son to be in a movie, every day on the set.”

“I say why am I so stubborn? I have to help my son,” Jackie said.

Jaycee was released from a six-month prison sentence in February after pleading guilty to allowing others to use marijuana at his Beijing apartment.

Jackie Chan
Jackie Chan wants to improve his relationship with his son Jaycee (Chiang Ying-ying/AP)

Jackie said prison has been good for his 32-year-old son because it made him mature, adding their relationship has changed for the better.

The Hong Kong actor said he was looking for suitable movie projects for Jaycee. In the meantime, his son would produce one of his records, expected out at the end of 2015, and hoped Jaycee would sing a duet with him on one of the tracks.

“Probably there is one song that we will sing to each other,” Jackie said, adding he would apologise for ignoring Jaycee when he was young. “I say ‘sorry, I was busy at that time.’”

The Chinese star said he wasn’t sure his actor-singer son would go for it, and that he might have to find somebody to sing it for him.

Jaycee Chan
Jaycee Chan (AP)

Jackie said Jaycee wrote songs and scripts and read a lot of books in prison, and joked a bit of prison time might be good for a lot of people.

“So many rich people, like some of my friends, they take 10 days or a month to the mountain to purify,” he said, adding that his busy schedule doesn’t allow him to relax for 10 days.

“I think sometimes I should set up the jail holiday, force some rich people, even myself, to go to jail,” he said. “These days all the people need to do this because they’re so busy.”

His latest film, Dragon Blade, sees him playing a squad commander who strikes up a friendship with Roman general Lucius, played by John Cusack. Adrien Brody portrays the ruthless ruler Tiberius in in action movie, which is set 2,000 years ago.

Jackie, who choreographed the fight scenes, joked John’s sword skills could have done with some improving.

“He cut me so many times in the finger, again and again, and Adrien Brody same thing, but I had to pretend nothing happened, OK, continue,” he said.

Jackie, whose other movies include a China-Bollywood action comedy called Kung Fu Yoga and a Second World War drama titled Railroad Tigers, said The Karate Kid sequel is in the works, with the script being written because Will isn’t comfortable with it.

Jackie Chan and Jaden Smith
Jackie Chan and Jaden Smith (Yui Mok/PA)

“I said, ‘Hurry up or otherwise Jaden will be taller than me’,” he added.