Rush Hour 4 aims to return the series to the gritty, unsparing realism of the first Rush Hour
Among the earliest, most knee-jerk reactions to the suggestion of a fourth Rush Hour movie would undoubtedly be, "But as the series progressed it has only gotten further and further away from the gritty, down-to-earth veracity of the first film, which is as unsparing a document of the effects of rampant crime and inner-city decay on the universal human condition as has ever been committed to celluloid, and therefore a fourth Rush Hour would only be an even blurrier imitation copy structured around Chris Tucker and Jackie Chan being put in another city to bicker. THANK YOU SIRS, BUT NO." However, series producer Arthur Sarkissian is prepping Rush Hour 4, and he has already anticipated your misgivings: "I’m 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," he tells CraveOnline of the sequel he is currently developing with Tucker, Chan, and a deep understanding of the way society is ground into jagged shapes by the brunt force of its least sociable elements. "It’s 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," Sarkissian adds. "I don’t want that. I want something new."