Rush Hour

Rush Hour (1998)

Timing: 1:37 (97 min)

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Release date

1998-09-18

Country

United States

Production

New Line Cinema, Roger Birnbaum Productions, Caravan Pictures, Arthur Sarkissian Productions

Genre

Action, Comedy, Crime

Budget

$33 000 000

Revenue

$244 721 064

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Director

Brett Ratner

Actors

Jackie Chan, Chris Tucker, Tom Wilkinson, Philip Baker Hall, Elizabeth Peña, Chris Penn, Mark Rolston, Tzi Ma, Rex Linn, Ken Leung
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Scenario

Producer

Roger Birnbaum, Jonathan Glickman, Arthur M. Sarkissian, Jay Stern

Operator

Adam Greenberg

Composer

Lalo Schifrin

Artist

Audition

Matthew Barry, Nancy Green-Keyes

Editing

Mark Helfrich
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• Chris Tucker was not the first choice for the role; Martin Lawrence was initially considered.
• Dave Chappelle auditioned for the role of James Carter.
• In Chinatown, Carter shows Inspector Lee a stone depicting John Wayne. In the film "Shanghai Noon" (2000), Jackie Chan plays Chon Wong, a role originally played by John Wayne.
• Jackie Chan nearly died during the filming of a scene where metal crates fell on him. They collapsed in the place where the actor's head had been just fractions of a second after he moved it.
• The release of this film served as inspiration for the creation of “Rotten Tomatoes,” a website-aggregator that collects film and television reviews from various publications, film information, and cinema news. Its founder, Duong Seng, is a big fan of the actor and decided to create a site to collect all reviews of Chan's Hong Kong films as they were released in the US. The site was ready shortly before the film's release, taking two weeks to create. It is now one of the most authoritative sources of information about films, with its own film rating system.
• As he almost always does in the films he appears in, Chris Tucker improvised almost all of his lines. According to director Brett Ratner, in one scene with Tucker and a snitch played by John Hawkes, there was so much improvisation that it was only with great difficulty that they were able to piece it together in editing to create a coherent conversation.
• According to Jackie Chan, the scene where his character first meets the character played by Chris Tucker is very reminiscent of the first meeting and acquaintance of the actors themselves at the Hollywood talent agency "William Morris". Tucker talked so much that after the meeting, Chan told his manager: "I didn't understand a single thing he said." This phrase was later included in the film.
• After filming and editing were completed, a preview screening of the film was organized for audiences, and they demanded more action scenes with Jackie Chan. They had to reshoot the scene where Chan's character fights a multitude of opponents in the finale, and the scene with the large vase.
• Towards the end, when Soo Yung reunites with her father, a news van is parked near the museum in the background. The inscription on the van begins with the letter W, which is typical for television and radio stations in the eastern United States, with some exceptions. In the western United States, names usually begin with K, of course. A name cannot begin with W in Los Angeles.
• In Chinatown, Carter shows Inspector Lee a John Wayne rock. In the film “Shanghai Noon” (2000), Jackie Chan plays Chong Wang, a role previously played by John Wayne.