Jackie Chan was on hand as one of over a dozen notable names on hand hosting in-person panel events at the second-annual Red Sea Film Festival where he confirmed he would focus more on romance and drama for future projects. It wasn’t long before, however, that he would also reveal he is in discussions with an unnamed director for the long-gestating Rush Hour 4, as confirmed by multiple trade news sources on Thursday.
“We’re talking about part four right now! But the script isn’t right.”
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“I will see the director tonight and we will be talking about it.”
The trilogy remains one of Chan’s biggest crossover successes from Hong Kong after attempting similar moves with Battle Creek Brawl and The Protector. In all three films from New Line Cinema, Chan joins comedian and actor Chris Tucker in stories of two cops from opposite sides of the world, firstly partnered to rescue the daughter of a Chinese diplomat in the U.S., then reteaming once more in Hong Kong upon learning the deaths of two U.S. customs agents are connected to a Triad boss with whom he shares history, and once more in France where Lee and Carter confront Lee’s “childhood” brother following an attempt on the Chinese ambassador’s life.
Brett Ratner, who hasn’t directed a film since outed during the #MeToo movement in 2017, directed the 1998, 2001, and 2007 films to box office fruition, among his other credits. In 2016, CBS took the reins for a television spin-off featuring Justin Hires and Jon Foo, lasting thirteen episodes together for their first and only season.
While in Kuala Lumpur back in 2013, Chan had the following to say about a potential fourth Rush Hour:
“We just finished meeting last month in L.A. with Chris Tucker and two writers. The first draft, I don’t really like it. It’s just boring. Nothing is exciting anymore. I know Warner Bros. really wanted to do ‘Rush Hour 4’. Both Chris Tucker and I agreed to do another one, but we need to see the script first. So far, it’s Jackie goes to Hong Kong, no, Jackie goes to America… Chris Tucker goes to Hong Kong. Then we go to Paris. What’s next? It’s difficult.”
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Efforts to get the fourth installment of Rush Hour are just one of a number of projects Chan was attached to over the years, including the rumored “Shanghai Dawn” which would have seen Chan back on the screen as a former Chinese royal guardsman opposite an American Western outlaw, played by Owen Wilson.
Some of Chan’s credits currently include but aren’t limited to Dragon Blade, Skiptrace, Viy 2: Journey to China, Bleeding Steel, The Foreigner and Vanguard, and upcoming titled such as Ride On and John Cena co-starrer, Project X-Traction.
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