http://www.rottentomatoes.com/news/comments/?entryid=324000 Apparently the director of Rush Hour, Brett Ratner, wants Yao to play in Rush Hour 3. Ratner Names His "Rush Hour 3" Dream Cast - Yao Ming, Gong Li and Tony Jaa! "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 Geisha] 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."" http://www.rottentomatoes.com/news/comments/?entryid=324000
This topic has been brought up a couple of times already, but I really did a double take on your thread title. You make it sound like Yao was the one that wanted to be in the movie, instead of that he is wanted to be in it.
