After three hit movies and a worldwide box-office take of nearly $850 million, is Rush Hour ready to rush to the small screen?
That’s the news coming from Deadline, which reports that Rush Hour director Brett Ratner has teamed with Scrubs/Cougar Town creator Bill Lawrence to develop a one-hour TV version of the action-comedy blockbuster.
Lawrence will co-write the pilot with exec producer Blake McCormick, who will serve as showrunner. According to Deadline, the plot will stick pretty closely to the premise of the movies, in which a by-the-book Hong Kong police detective (with mad martial arts skills, of course) teams up with a loose-cannon African-American LAPD officer.
While Jackie Chan and Chris Tucker played the roles in the original Rush Hour and its two sequels, it seems unlikely that either actor will reprise the characters for this upcoming TV version. However, that doesn’t mean we won’t be seeing the actors take on these roles one more time; Jackie Chan has indicated in a recent interview that Warner Bros. is interested in resurrecting the franchise for a third sequel, but no plans have yet been confirmed.
