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Oscar winner Octavia Spencer being sought for Rush Hour 4<\/strong>Posted by Wilson Morales<\/p>\n

July 30, 2012<\/p>\n

Source: Fred Topel\/ Cravelonline<\/a><\/p>\n

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According to Cravelonline.com, they ran into movie producer Arthur Sarkissian<\/strong> at the Television Critics Association<\/strong> press tour. He produced his first TV series, \u201cVegas,\u201d on CBS. We spoke about the upcoming fall drama, then moved to his potential movie projects. When we fished for his interest in doing another Rush Hour, Sarkissian revealed there\u2019s serious development on a fourth film in the buddy cop franchise.<\/p>\n

\u201cI am working on Rush Hour 4 right now with Chris Tucker and Jackie Chan,\u201d<\/strong> Sarkissian said. \u201cI\u2019m trying to do it closer to how I did Rush Hour 1, more down to earth, more gritty, introduce two new characters and make it real the way the first one was. I personally was not happy with the third one. I thought 1 and 2 were very good. I think 3 got out of hand a little bit. It\u2019s not a matter of just bringing them back to do another segment of that or a sequel to it by putting them in another city and having them bicker. I don\u2019t want that. I want something new.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/strong>Two new characters, like younger cops to whom Chris and Jackie could hand the franchise off? Not necessarily, Sarkissian said.<\/p>\n

\u201cMaybe younger, maybe Chris is now married, maybe Jackie is married to Octavia Spencer, I don\u2019t know. Married to Chris\u2019s cousin, they live in Shanghai, Chris goes out to visit them. I don\u2019t know, I want something energetic.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

Now, I thought I was forgetting a \u201cbefore they were stars\u201d cameo by Spencer in a previous Rush Hour. Turns out Sarkissian is just pulling that out of his head, and he totally thinks he could get her after her Oscar win. \u201cAbsolutely. Why not? If it\u2019s good, script is good you\u2019ll get anybody.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

Sarkissian confirmed Tucker and Chan are interested in returning. He has not settled on a screenwriter yet. \u201cRight now we haven\u2019t decided yet but I\u2019m very close to making a decision. I have about four or five names that we\u2019re roaming on right now.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Brett Ratner <\/strong>directed the three Rush Hour films. Hinting at his dissatisfaction with Rush Hour 3<\/strong>, Sarkissian was cautious about suggesting Ratner\u2019s involvement. \u201cIf he wants to do it he\u2019s more than welcome to do it but he\u2019s got to do it in the right way.\u201d<\/p>\n

Chan recently announced that Chinese Zodiac would be his last intense Hong Kong action film, though he will continue to make movies like The Karate Kid with an action component. Sarkissian is sensitive to Chan\u2019s needs, and he doesn\u2019t want to overdo the action anyway.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019s getting a little older. I think he can fit it. What was great about Rush Hour 1 and 2 mostly was the relationship of these two and it came out of nowhere. It was just very real. We didn\u2019t build it, we didn\u2019t write it. It just happened. I think the action will be there but it has to be molded to fit him today and not forced into stuff that he won\u2019t do.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

Since Rush Hour is based on the relationship between agents Lee (Chan) and Carter (Tucker), they could presumably have infinite adventures. There\u2019s no closed-ended canon. However, Sarkissian looked to an interesting franchise for inspiration on keeping Rush Hour fresh.<\/p>\n

\u201cOne of the things that surprised me and actually excited me was how they did Fast Five. They kept the characters, they took them and they put them in a whole different world. They put them in the world of a heist movie and it worked. I think that was brilliant what they did because if you\u2019re not careful, what happens is you just keep repeating yourself. There\u2019s not much you can do. You\u2019ve got to be very careful but that\u2019s where creativity and energy and good thought and a little bit of hard work comes to try and give them something that\u2019s in that world but a little different.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

Of course, you don\u2019t want it to be too different, because then it\u2019s not Rush Hour anymore. \u201cAbsolutely not, because you will have the characters, it will be the two of them. They\u2019ve got to be in a world where it\u2019s not just fighting with one another.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

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