Brett Ratner forms unlikely partnership for Rush Hour TV show
Like a straitlaced Asian police officer in an awkward partnership with a foulmouthed black LAPD detective, Warner Bros. Television is attempting to pair the Rush Hour film series with primetime television, in hopes that their differences similarly produce results. Deadline reports that Brett Ratner and fellow Rush Hour producer Arthur Sarkissian have teamed up with Cougar Town’s Bill Lawrence and Blake McCormick for their own unlikely ride-along, crafting a series that will similarly concern a “stoic, by-the-book” Hong Kong police officer working an L.A. case with “a cocky black LAPD officer… who has no interest in a partner.” No doubt Ratner, Lawrence et al. are already hilariously bickering over culture clashes, and how to portray them for an hour every single week without the very specific chemistry of Chris Tucker and Jackie Chan.