Chris Tucker reunites with Jackie Chan for new 'Rush Hour'
LOS ANGELES (AFP) - US actor Chris Tucker will reportedly team up again with Hong Kong action star Jackie Chan for the third installment of the "Rush Hour" franchise.
Filming for "Rush Hour 3" will start next year in France and the United States for a mid-2007 release, according to the trade publication Daily Variety.
The "Rush Hour" action-comedy franchise stars Tucker as a mouthy Los Angeles detective who teams up with Chan's acrobatic Hong Kong cop to crack cases.
The first film was released in 1998 and the 2001 sequel made 329 million dollars worldwide.
POLANSKI RUSHES TO RATNER
Source: CHUD
Last week I sat down in Vegas with Brett Ratner as he was doing a cameo on X3 writer Zak Penn's new improv poker comedy, The Grand. I ended up talking with Ratner for well over an hour, and the conversation is funny, fascinating and revealing. You have to talk to a guy for a long time for him to get his guard down enough to be real, and I think I got to that place with Ratner. It's going to surprise a lot of people – I don't know if it'll change any minds about him, but it'll certainly make you rethink him.
One of the topics we covered was Rush Hour 3, which starts shooting in 8 weeks and is set in France. Ratner ended up dropping some news about the casting of that film – including the fact that legendary director Roman Polanski will be in it.
"Hopefully Polanski's going to act in Rush Hour 3, so I created a part for him," said Ratner. "I was just having lunch with him, and I said, 'Oh my God, you have to be in Rush Hour!' We're shooting in Paris, so it's perfect."
I asked him if it would be intimidating directing the guy who directed Nicholson in Chinatown. "He treats me as an equal, he loves my movies, he's a fan. If I was directing Harry Knowles from Aint It Cool News I wouldn't feel very comfortable – he would be looking at me sideways the whole time. But Polanksi gives me respect and admiration and love, so I'm fearless."
Ratner also revealed another actor, but kept his lead French actress a secret. "I'm using Yvan Attel, who directed My Wife is an Actress, which is a fucking brilliant French movie that Spielberg has the remake rights to. He was in Munich too. I haven't told anybody who's in the movie yet – there's another brilliant French actress who I can't say yet, but I'm going after her. It's going to be a great cast."
Humongous basketball player Yao Ming's involvement has been on the record – if not officially sealed – for a while now. He told me how he saw Yao Ming's scene working. "[E]very scene in [my] movie comes from another film. I don't want to give everything away but this dream scene I want to do is inspired by when Kareem Abdul-Jabar fought Bruce Lee [in Game of Death]. I want to have the reverse – I want Chris Tucker to fight Yao Ming. As a child I saw Bruce Lee fighting this giant, and I was like, 'Oh my God!'"
This is just the beginning of what we talked about – come back Monday for Ratner's theories on what happened to Superman Returns, why some people don't like him, his relationship with Harry Knowles, his remake of The Killing of a Chinese Bookie, and much more!
Quote from: Ratner then
I can watch Paul Thomas Anderson's films and tell you in every scene what movie he's taking from. I know those references, but that's kind of blatant stuff that he does because he wants to show you he loves those movies. My stuff is subliminal. You would never even pick it up, really. It's very subtle stuff.
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"[E]very scene in [my] movie comes from another film. I don't want to give everything away but this dream scene I want to do is inspired by when Kareem Abdul-Jabar fought Bruce Lee [in Game of Death]. I want to have the reverse – I want Chris Tucker to fight Yao Ming. As a child I saw Bruce Lee fighting this giant, and I was like, 'Oh my God!'"
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Actor rejects Rush Hour 3 offer
Source: Moviehole
A month or two ago, Director Brett Ratner mentioned he'd love to get rising martial-arts movie star Tony Jaa ("Ong Bak") in "Rush Hour 3". Today, Jaa tells Rotten Tomatoes that that won't be happening.
According to the actor, Ratner did call, and there were talks about him joining the production, but due to scheduling difficulties (he's busy doing the "Ong Bak" sequel), they just couldn't work it out.
No doubt Ratner wanted Jaa to play a villain in the film, which pits sirs Chan and Tucker against a Chinese Triad crew.
The director is also believed to be in talks with former "Seinfeld" star Michael Richards, his "X-Men 3" star Ian McKellen, Vinnie Jones and director Roman Polanski about playing parts in the sequel.
Ratner Reveals More Rush Hour 3 Cast
Source: USA Today
USA Today caught up with Rush Hour 3 director Brett Ratner (X-Men: The Last Stand), who revealed more cast members:
"In the first movie Jackie was a fish out of water (in L.A), then Chris was one in the second movie (in Hong Kong). Now they are both fish out of water," says director Brett Ratner (X-Men: The Last Stand). Targeted for an August 2007 release, Rush Hour 3's villains include one played by Hiroyuki Sanada (The Last Samurai). "He's a brilliant actor with a martial arts background who has done some incredible films," Ratner says. Also in the cast: Max Von Sydow and Roman Polanski.
The cast also includes Vinnie Jones, Yvan Attel, Roselyn Sanchez and Yao Ming.
yeah henry sanada is one of the rarest actors in the world: a royal shakespeare company-trained actor who grew up being trained by sonny chiba. truly a master at both acting and fighting. twilight samurai is a testament of that. mifune may be charming, but sanada's got skills.
'Rush Hour 3': needs more Polanski
As he readies the Jackie Chan-Chris Tucker threequel Jeff Nathanson gets a request to create a role for the legendary director.
Source: Los Angeles Times
Just two months before principal photography was meant to commence in Paris on the latest "Rush Hour" sequel, director Brett Ratner came to screenwriter Jeff Nathanson ("Catch Me If You Can") and informed him that he wanted a part written into the Jackie Chan-Chris Tucker action-comedy franchise for Roman Polanski.
Roman Polanski? The guy who wrote and/or directed "Repulsion," "Rosemary's Baby" and "Chinatown," three of the bleakest assessments of human nature ever put on film ... in "Rush Hour 3"?
What's next? Martin Scorsese playing the heavy in the next "Charlie's Angels" sequel?
"Everyone said, 'Yeah, right — Roman Polanski's gonna be in 'Rush Hour 3,' " Nathanson recalls. "We kind of ignored it." But Ratner kept pestering him, claiming that Polanski, a friend of the director's, enjoyed the previous films and really wanted to play a part. So Nathanson drew up several potential characters and scenarios until he and Ratner decided that "the role of a very sadistic French police officer would suit him."
The producers and studio executives remained skeptical. " 'It'll never happen,' " Nathanson remembers them saying. "Nobody believes that there will be a day when you're going to walk onto the set and there's gonna be Roman Polanski, Jackie Chan and Chris Tucker."
Well, until a few weeks ago, when the 73-year-old Oscar-winning director ("The Pianist"), film icon and famous fugitive showed up on the Paris set one day — prepared, curious, and ready to dissect every scene and prop.
Polanski has been in front of the lens before, most notably as the jittery, menacing thug in "Chinatown" who taunts Jack Nicholson with "You are a very nosy fellow, kitty cat ... " before picking the actor's nose with a switchblade.
Sounds like just the guy you want to play off the crazy high jinks of Mssrs. Chan and Tucker.
"The way 'Rush Hour' movies are done, you can't take yourself too seriously," says Nathanson, who avoided writing any ironic or self-referential dialogue that would wink at Polanski's storied personal or professional past. "You have to have a sense of humor about it. There's really no other way to approach these things as a writer, because it is what it is. Roman had that attitude, which was to just go for it and not worry so much about where he lands because there's a safety net in being in something that's really just meant for people to go and have a good time."
Nathanson, who wrote the second "Rush Hour" film and had a hand in the first, has absorbed all this in mostly stoic fashion, despite the "surreal and odd" sensation he felt at having Polanski, a filmmaking idol, approach him to discuss the lines he had written.
"If you hang around Brett Ratner enough," he says with a kind of verbal shrug, "odd situations tend to follow."
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Teaser Trailer here. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPCrfsVzjyk&eurl=)
"directed by brett ratner"
It has now become a feature
ratner will win an oscar for this....and it will be fore best foreign film
STARS' EGO TRIPS TRIP UP FLICKS
Source: New York Post
Chris Tucker, the star whose large paycheck and ego have been well-documented, has been demanding script changes in "Rush Hour 3."
"He won't come out of his trailer until the script is up to his standards," giggled one spy on the set in Santa Ana. "What, $25 million isn't enough to just do your job and act?" A rep for Tucker didn't return calls.
On the same set, horndog director Brett Ratner "sends an assistant named Scott around to every female extra, collecting phone numbers in a too obvious, not-so-suave way," the source said. "Scott commands these $150-a-day actress-hopefuls to give him their phone numbers simply because 'the director wants it.' "
A rep for Ratner, who has dated Rebecca Gayheart and Serena Williams, said, "That's ridiculous. If Brett wants a phone number, he'll get it himself."
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Jackie Chan has newfound respect for dramatic directors doing action films
HONG KONG (AP) - Jackie Chan used to think that directors of romance films or political thrillers had no business making the kind of action movies that he specializes in.
But not any more. "I used to think that directors who shoot dramatic films cannot film action," Chan wrote on his website Thursday.
"(But) after seeing films made by Ang Lee ("Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon") and Zhang Yimou ("Hero"), I realized that I was wrong," he said, referring to kung fu epics made by two of the most famous directors in ethnic Chinese cinema.
"Because of their dramatic background and their incredible talent, they are able to bring a unique perspective when it comes to filming action scenes. While we create comedic action, they are able to create dramatic action," Chan wrote.
Chan is currently filming the third instalment of the "Rush Hour" action-comedy series, and co-ordinates the action sequences. He said he appreciates director Brett Ratner's input during action-scene filming.
"Even though Brett doesn't know much about directing action, he does notice details that help us improve the scene. I appreciate his attentiveness when we shoot action scenes and his feedback," Chan said.
Quote from: MacGuffin on March 16, 2007, 03:57:30 AM
"Brett doesn't know much about directing" Chan said.
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Rush Hour 3
Source: Entertainment Weekly
Chris Tucker's eyes pop as ornate wooden doors swing open on the set of Rush Hour 3. He and Jackie Chan are led into a lavish Parisian party filled with gorgeous, exquisitely dressed women. Unfortunately, the ballroom is actually deep in the bowels of a dilapidated Los Angeles theater, the flutes are filled with fake champagne, and this is the 37th time the duo has made this entrance today. ''We don't always do 37 takes,'' says director Brett Ratner. ''With Chris, the first 10 were just him feeling it. At the end when he started going 'Ooh la la!' — he started really feeling it.''
It's November, barely the film's second month of shooting, and it's understandable that the cast would still be warming up. The last time the director brought Tucker and Chan together as bumbling, backflipping buddy cops Lee and Carter was six years ago. Rush Hour 2, like the first, was a rollicking success, hauling in nearly $350 million worldwide. Box office bonanza aside, it started to look like Rush Hour 3 would not happen. Someone was dragging his feet. ''Chris isn't in a rush,'' chuckles Ratner. ''So, Jackie goes off and does his movies. I go off and do X-Men 3. [Chris] hasn't worked in five years.'' Whispers circulated that Tucker, who earned a staggering $20 million for Rush Hour 2, was holding out for more money this time around — which he denies.
''It wasn't me,'' insists the comedian. ''It was finding the script. [New Line was] saying, 'We'll get you a script. Just sign on.' I usually don't do that. That was the big holdup. I need to see a script.'' Nevertheless, Tucker eventually relented, and a script was written that involved Lee and Carter trailing a list of Chinese gangsters through Paris. Ratner and Co. shot on location for about a month, so if you're aching for scissor kicks on the Eiffel Tower, you got 'em. Speaking of landmarks, Chan, who earned less up front than Tucker for his chopsocky contributions to Rush Hour 2, will be getting a healthy portion of Rush Hour 3's distribution rights in China. ''I like to bet,'' says Chan. ''Maybe, at the end, I'll [make more] than Chris.'' Guess Tucker's not the only one feelin' it now.
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Trailer here. (http://www.apple.com/trailers/newline/rushhour3/)
Release Date: August 10th, 2007 (wide)
Starring: Jackie Chan, Chris Tucker, Max von Sydow, Noemie Lenoir, Hiroyuki Sanada
Directed by: Brett Ratner
Premise: LAPD detective James Carter and Chinese Chief Inspector Lee travel to Paris to battle a wing of the Chinese organized crime family, the Triads
Quote from: MacGuffin on May 01, 2007, 05:42:13 PM
Speaking of landmarks, Chan, who earned less up front than Tucker for his chopsocky contributions to Rush Hour 2, will be getting a healthy portion of Rush Hour 3's distribution rights in China. ''I like to bet,'' says Chan. ''Maybe, at the end, I'll [make more] than Chris.'' Guess Tucker's not the only one feelin' it now.
but Chan was a producer so he got a percentage of the gross, which would put him way ahead of tucker right?
Quote from: pete on May 03, 2007, 02:15:06 AM
but Chan was a producer so he got a percentage of the gross, which would put him way ahead of tucker right?
Quote from: MacGuffin on May 01, 2007, 05:42:13 PM
"I like to bet," says Chan.
Because I bought The Squid And The Whale: The Shooting Script, Amazon thought I would like this recommendation:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1557047839/ref=pe_pe_5050_6042200_pe_snp_839
I have that one autographed by Ratner... it rocks
China's censors ban 'Rush Hour 3'
Film Bureau claims commercial reasons
Source: Variety
China's censors have banned the slapstick "Rush Hour 3" from theatrical release in China.
Given the popularity of pic's star, Jackie Chan, on the mainland, it is a shock decision and follows weeks of speculation that the pic was proving politically contentious.
The powerful state-run Film Bureau told Daily Variety that it had withheld permission for commercial reasons -- a surprising justification given the first two installments of the franchise did boffo B.O. in China.
"We think it will not be popular in China," Xiao Ping, a VP at China Film Group's import and export arm, said Thursday.
However, many believe that censors object to a scene featuring a Chinese organized crime family that Chan and Chris Tucker's characters take on during a visit to Paris.
The issue of organized crime is politically sensitive in China these days, as greater economic openness has been accompanied by the emergence of Triad-style gangs in big cities.
"Rush Hour 3" also faced tough competition for an import slot. China allows only 20 foreign films to be imported per year and given a full "revenue sharing'" release.
The pic's Chinese rights holder, Edko Films, was not available for comment on Thursday.
Edko topper, Bill Kong previously told Daily Variety: "The problem is not the Film Bureau, it is (state-run distributor) China Film. The schedule is very congested and American films are doing very well around the world this year."
"Rush Hour 3" preemed in Los Angeles on Tuesday at Grauman's Chinese Theater and goes on commercial release in North America on Aug 10. Film will be distributed in Hong Kong on Aug. 16 through Celestial Pictures.
I wish they would ban the movie here...
Ok I know everyone will laugh at me... and this time there is nothing I can say...
I just got invited (and probably will go) to a Rush Hour 3 premiere and party in Miami this week with Ratner in attendance. This girl I'm going out with really wants to go and the Florida Film Commissioner (who works with me) will also be there and asked me to attend. So there you have it, after all, I will watch this goddamn movie before everyone else and with Ratner himself.
If anybody wants to send me love letter for me to give him, dont hesitate!
premiere? I thought that was a few weeks ago.
I'm taking my kids and their families to see it on monday at one of those sneak previews. no ratner though.
I guess its the Miami Premiere? I dont know... but he is there and I think some of the cast and other important Hollywood assholes.
Should be fun...
muahahah. (http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/rush_hour_3/)
I know this kid who is a real asshole and works at a crappy theater. Last night he arranged for a private screening of Rush Hour 3 at midnight for himself and some cronies. A friend of mine went and when he told me I busted my nuts.
So I went to this thing... it was fun... lots of assholes, pretty girls and celebs...
The best thing was that not only RATNER was there... but also... chan chan... Michael Bay!
It would have been a bomber-filmmakers dream to actually take them out both with one shot.
I'm glad Roman Polanski got punched at the end. He deserved that for being in a RATner film.
Quote from: B.C. Long on August 11, 2007, 01:55:35 AM
RATner
wow i never NOTiced that.
Quote from: ©brad on August 10, 2007, 07:49:33 PM
muahahah. (http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/rush_hour_3/)
http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/rush_hour_3/reviews_users.php
Quote from: Pubrick on August 11, 2007, 11:14:58 AM
Quote from: ©brad on August 10, 2007, 07:49:33 PM
muahahah. (http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/rush_hour_3/)
http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/rush_hour_3/reviews_users.php
ELAINE: I will
never understand people.
JERRY: They're the worst.