Well guys, Needless to say with the Rox out of the playoffs news is slow to come by. I know this is reaching but I thought it was pretty funny... http://comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=14528 Brett Ratner's Rush Hour 3 Dream Cast Source: Edward Douglas May 12, 2006 If all good things truly come in threes, then director Brett Ratner may soon become known as the Master of the Threequel. Having directed The Silence of the Lambs prequel Red Dragon, the third movie starring Anthony Hopkins as Dr. Hannibal Lecter, and with the upcoming X-Men: The Last Stand, the third chapter in that franchise, Ratner will soon be taking on his third Threequel. On August 16, he's scheduled to go to Paris to start filming the third installment of the action-comedy on which he cut his teeth, Rush Hour 3. The plot of the movie starts with the duo in New York before moving to Paris, although Ratner is shooting the locations in reverse. Obviously, Chris Tucker and Jackie Chan are back, but Ratner talked with ComingSoon.net about some of the actors he'd love to bring in for the third installment. "I'll tell you who I'm going after," he said with a burst of excitement. "I want Yao Ming, the basketball player, to be in it. I want to recreate the fight sequence from the Bruce Lee movie where he fights Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, but I want to do the reverse; I want Chris Tucker to fight Yao Ming. I want that to happen. I want Aishwarya Rai [the biggest female star in Bollywood] and I would love Gong Li [last seen in Memoirs of a Geish] to be in the movie. There's some people that I want, but I don't know if I'll be able to get them. Tony Jaa [star of last year's Ong Bak: Thai Warrior] I want, too. I love him." "These guys have great chemistry and they love each other," Ratner replied when asked whether he thinks the dynamics between the stars might be the same after almost five years, before joking, "They both don't speak a word of English though." Of course, Ratner's next movie is X-Men: The Last Stand, which opens on May 26. Look for a full interview with Ratner on Superhero Hype! in the coming weeks.
That would be perfect. Yao could be made out to be a bad boy, who throws elbows and pulls nose hairs, which would put the fear into the rest of the league.
Thank god, Rush Hour 3 is confirmed. That's the kind of good news I was lookin for. Also, I was thinking... Rush Hour = Chris Tucker / Jackie Chan Rockets = Tracy McGrady / Yao Ming The Black-Chinese partnership is unstoppable.
Interesting way to look at it. Can someone photoshop a Rush Hour movie poster with T-Mac and Yao on it?
I hope Yao don't take the chance, I can't stand watching him in those tight shorts, bare feet fighting against Chris Tucker. Ratner must have taken something before the interview although I think Tony Jaa is a brilliant idea.
Yao Ming as an evil henchman would be about the only thing that would get me to see Rush Hour 3. The 2nd one was crap. BTW, has Chris Tucker actually agreed to do this? I thought he said he wasn't interested.
He's turned down multiple 8 figure deals. The man has made 2 movies since 1998 and they've both had "Rush Hour" in the titles. He obviously doesn't need the money or else he would've done something else in the last 8 years.
I think it's much more telling the other way that he's only done Rush Hour movies for so long. It's his cash cow and his road to financial freedom. He's not going to turn it down. And I highly doubt any other project was going to even come close to paying him 20 million dollars.
