Action movie franchise Rush Hour will become a TV series on CBS in 2015.
NewsCBS has ordered a season of the Rush Hour TV series.
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 co-wrote the Rush Hour pilot with Blake McCormick.
The Rush Hour TV series stars Justin Hires (Key & Peele) is taking over the part Chris Tucker played. Jon Foo (Tekken) will play Jackie Chan's character.
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 (in well under 48 hours at that!). The Rush Hour movies made over $850 million worldwide when combined.
Source: Deadline
