Rush Hour producer Arthur Sarkissian has confirmed that a fourth film in the lucrative action comedy series Rush Hour is now becoming a reality. Giving Chris Tucker yet another opportunity to query whether or not Jackie Chan’s English language skills are as good as his Kung Fu. Here’s what the producer has to say about the new film:

“I am working on Rush Hour 4 right now with Chris Tucker and Jackie Chan. 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. I personally was not happy with the third one. I thought 1 and 2 were very good. I think 3 got out of hand a little bit. 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. I don’t want that. I want something new.”

“Maybe younger, maybe Chris is now married, maybe Jackie is married to Octavia Spencer, I don’t know. Married to Chris’s cousin, they live in Shanghai, Chris goes out to visit them. I don’t know, I want something energetic.”

It’s slightly reassuring that the plan isn’t just to have the mismatched police detective duo pointlessly bicker their way through adventures set in an increasingly implausible international locale.  Perhaps the franchise can learn for the obvious mistakes of Rush Hour 3.