“Rush Hour” Is Being Remade Into an Action TV Show

"Rush Hour" is getting a TV remake.

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The buddy cop genre is still flourishing, look no further than the recent success of the 21 Jump Street franchise and award-winning comedy Brooklyn Nine-Nine. Naturally this calls for a TV show remake of Rush Hour.

The show will follow the film’s premise, which starred Jackie Chan as the stern Detective Lee, forced to team up with Chris Tucker, the over-the-top LAPD officer Carter.

The Rush Hour franchise, which began in 1998, went on to make $845 million internationally over the course of three films. 

We still can’t shake how terrible the third one was, so a TV show sounds like a bad idea. In the words of  “War”, which “Lee” famously sings, “What is it good for? Absolutely nothing.”

[via Deadline]

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