In July 2009, in an interview, Ratner stated that he “has been in contact with a long list of stars including Danny DeVito and Jet Li for possible roles in a potential Rush Hour 4”, but stressed “nothing’s been okayed yet”. In a short interview with Vulture in 2011, Ratner stated that the cost of making a follow-up to X-Men: The Last Stand would have cost more than X-Men: First Class and “that’s why another Rush Hour 4 probably won’t get made, either: It’d be too much to pay me, Chris [Tucker], and Jackie [Chan] to come back.”
In August 2011, in an interview with The Breakfast Club, Tucker stated in response to the question of a fourth by saying, “Rush Hour 4? Maybe you know, because that’s a different kind of movie. You got the action and the stuff like that, and they pay 20 million dollars too… I’m just joking! No, you know Jackie Chan, you know I love working with him and those type of movies you can redo them and it’s different, we’ll see but I don’t know though.
But we’ve got some new stuff coming, so we’ll see what happens.”
In July 2012, series producer Arthur M. Sarkissian stated that a fourth film was being worked on with Chan and Tucker, and stated that he would welcome Brett Ratner back as director if he would “do it in the right way.” Sarkissian expressed some dissatisfaction with the third film, and admitted he wants the potential fourth film to be grittier, and have new ideas. Chan stated that the studio still wants to make Rush Hour 4, but that he will only participate if he can see a quality script first, stating “I don’t want to do a rubbish script just because they want to make the movie”. In June 2015, Chan met with Tucker for dinner to discuss Rush Hour 4.
Rush Hour was released on September 18, 1998, grossing $245,300,000 worldwide.
In June 2015, Chan met with Tucker for dinner to discuss Rush Hour 4.
Rush Hour was released on September 18, 1998, grossing $245,300,000 worldwide. Martin Lawrence was originally considered for the role of James Carter. Chris Tucker was finally chosen for the part. Director Brett Ratner, a big fan of Jackie Chan’s Hong Kong movies, felt that American audiences would not be familiar with the jokes in Jackie’s other movies, and deliberately re-used some of his gags.
Rush Hour 2 was released on August 3, 2001. The film grossed $347,425,832 worldwide, Rush Hour 3 was officially announced on May 7, 2006, and filming began on July 4, 2006.
The film, set in Paris and Los Angeles, was first released on August 10, 2007, and grossed $256,585,882 worldwide. In April 2019, Tucker said in a podcast appearance that the fourth film is still a possibility, stating, “It’s not in pre-production. We’re working on a few things [for] the script. Jackie wants to do it. I want to do it. The studio wants to do it. In April 2019, Tucker said in a podcast appearance that the fourth film is still a possibility, stating, “It’s not in pre-production. We’re working on a few things [for] the script. Jackie wants to do it. I want to do it. The studio wants to do it.