Trump wants to revive the Rush Hour franchise. Is he looking to return to Hollywood? | film

It is said that by 328 BC, after the empires had bowed to him, Alexander the Great wept… because there were no more worlds to conquer.

Likewise, having solved the Middle East and Ukraine issues with some technical issues to be resolved and many other wars to end as well, Donald Trump may also be tempted to cry about running out of important tasks. However, as he is about to kneel in pain on the Oval Office carpet, he is clearly preoccupied with the thought of another great challenge.

He could revive the Rush Hour movie franchise!

Paramount Skydance’s largest shareholder, Larry Ellison – which earlier this year, as Paramount Global, settled a lawsuit with Trump not unlike the one with which he recently threatened the BBC – has reportedly been relied upon by the Commander-in-Chief to revive the Rush Hour movies that everyone remembers so affectionately – the knock-out buddy cop adventures starring Chris Tucker and Jackie Chan.

A fourth Rush Hour movie is said to be a key part of Trump’s project for his second term – a dream of reintroducing some old-fashioned masculinity into Hollywood culture, and it will also create some jobs for the unpopular Tinseltown man who directed the first three Rush Hour films – Brett Ratner.

Ratner was accused of sexual assault in 2017, accusations he denied. But, with privileged access, he has now directed a $40 million documentary about Melania Trump — the kind of film that can only be described as “quiet.”

Does the world really need or want Rush Hour 4? If that had happened, surely we would have it by now? Market forces in the brutally commercial Darwinian jungle of franchise cinema could have led to the creation of Rush Hour 4. Or at least a reboot of it for broadcast television with a younger cast and perhaps David Harbor as the glowering police chief.

The premise of the Rush Hour series is an odd pairing of two cops: James Carter, who plays Chris Tucker from the LAPD, and Yan-Ning Lee, who plays Jackie Chan from the Hong Kong police force. They both play ‘fish out of water’ comedy – water is the culture of the other – with some very broad and arguably problematic sex comedy. Naturally, there are plenty of fights, with Tucker giving us some all-American punches and Chan pulling off some loud martial arts moves.

It’s all very stereotypical, indulgent stuff and Donald absolutely loves it. Could Rush Hour 4 have one of his own cameos, or something more? Or perhaps the president – like Arnold Schwarzenegger – is beginning to envision a post-political return to the glamorous world of show business. Maybe he wants to produce as well as stardom.

But there is another possibility. Recently, Trump hosted New York’s democratic socialist mayor-elect, Zahran Mamdani; The meeting, which many believed could only end with the kind of indifference that the president directed to Volodymyr Zelensky in their first meeting. But no. It was all smiles. It seems that a very unexpected friendship is in the offing. Could it be that Trump likes the idea of ​​rush hour because it’s so inclusive? A black man and an Asian man unite under the American flag. Has Mamdani finally softened Trump’s worldview? If so, and if the result is Rush Hour 4, it could be worse.