The Jackie Chan and Chris Tucker action franchise, Rush Hour, is speeding along to get the small screen treatment.
Earlier today, we found out that Big was getting the television treatment, and now we have another brand name making the trip to the small screen: Rush Hour.
The high-grossing and high-laughing comedy-action franchise that starred Jackie Chan and Chris Tucker over three films between 1998 and 2007 is being adapted for the small screen by Warner Bros. Television and Bill Lawrence’s Doozer production company.
Lawrence, the creator of Scrubs and co-creator of Cougar Town, has become a heavy presence at Warner Bros. TV, and the move will mark another collaboration between Doozer, which are also already producing Undatable at NBC and Ground Floor at TBS. Lawrence is also set to co-write the new hour-long action-comedy Rush Hour series.
Brett Ratner, who directed all three Rush Hour films, will executive produce the series, as will Arthur Sarkissian.
The original Rush Hour starred Tucker as a wisecracking and boisterous LAPD detective who is reluctantly drawn into accepting Chan’s Hong Kong police officer as a partner after a diplomat’s daughter is kidnapped. Together, they form an unlikely friendship while solving an international crisis (well under 48 hours at that!). The Rush Hour movies made over $850 million worldwide when combined.
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