Who's the 3rd? Roselyn Sanchez? She wasn't even in part 3.

Would love to see a Bad Boys/Rush Hour crossover movie.

Ratner. Principals behind and in front of the camera.

That might be an awful lot of yelling for one movie.

Wow. Picked up by Paramount

and Brett Ratner was apparently hired to direct

Surprised about Ratner, but has enough time has gone by that no one remembers him for anything other than X-Men Last Stand? I'm sure those women will call him out again.

My guess is that people also remember him from Rush Hour? Otherwise why bother bringing him back? I'm all for giving people a second chance if they deserve it (no idea if he does), but he's like the walking definition of a mediocre director. I don't see the upside unless Chan and Tucker specifically wanted him.

As of right now, Chan and Tucker have not officially signed on. So we'll see.

I think it is more about who is in charge of Paramount and where the money comes from (Daddy Ellison) not caring about what Ratner did.

Well, looks like he's got some say in the franchise. And since RH4 is at Trump's request, Ratner had directed a Melania documentary for the Trumps due next year. But still, since the accusations in 2017, he hasn't done anything else.

Wait, what?

https://www.forbes.com/sites/antonio...ership-for-it/

I guess Paramount will buy the rights from New Line/WB?

It's a distribution deal.

Just let this franchise of deeply diminishing creative returns fucking die already. The amount of poison now swirling around this supposed fourth instalment of a one-note series all but guarantees it either won’t get made or will be a complete joke if it does. And rebooting it with a younger Black/Asian combo of nobody actors after three increasingly lazy movies and a failed TV series won’t bring back the “magic” that was only there for a brief moment when the first film came out.

Also worth noting: scumbag Ratner is a big pal of Bibi’s, and has largely been hiding out in Israel since he slithered over there a few years after the scandal.

So, yeah, great optics: probable pedo and authoritarian Trump, sex creep Ratner, reportedly Epstein-adjacent (and tax cheat!) Tucker, and willing CCP mouthpiece Chan. Billion-dollar box-office for sure.

Unless Jackie and Chris are willing to take massive pay cuts, this could easily be $100M alone plus back ends for their salaries alone.

^ That’s an interesting point. Frankly, neither of them are worth that kind of money based on their subsequent career trajectories but the franchise name all but guarantees they’d probably shoot for the moon in terms of paychecks. I seriously doubt the inevitably diminished boxoffice of a twenty-years-later movie essentially plagued with compromised participants would justify that kind of outlay. But I guess the entertainment ‘news’ cycle will keep it alive.

Yeah neither of them are draws for box office, especially Tucker. Jackie's prime box office days are long behind him. But, their agents probably know they can milk the studio for huge pay days for this and they should.

If Trump 'asked' the father of the guy that that now has controlling interest in Paramount and is about make a deal to also buy Warner Discovery, you bet your ass I would be asking for the moon to star in this. He's worth just shy of $250 billion. I'd want that upfront fuck you money, screw the back end participation deal. Pretty sure Tucker got a nice payday from the Riyadh Comedy Festival.

^ Totally agree they’d do that, which would only add to the odious air now surrounding the whole thing. Twenty years on is a long time to think that there’s any fuel left in this franchise aside from what appears to be a very politically right-wing agenda at the moment (which, for now, doesn’t directly involve the two stars, but time will tell).

I forgot all about Tucker being at that awful “comedy” festival, so I have little doubt about his allegiances if they meet his demands up front, like you say. And whatever he can milk it for, Chan’s reps would undoubtedly want the same (and I’m sure Trump would call that a ‘win’ over his adversary in China)

Mind you, even though I wouldn’t set foot in a theatre to watch something like this (I liked the first one, liked the second one less, and hated the third) made by people like those presently associating themselves with it for bald-faced political reasons, I can imagine plenty of fans who can’t let the franchise go contorting themselves to justify buying a ticket, but even that plus an inevitable surge in right-wing championing of the film and the ‘patriots’ behind it seems unlikely to lead to a box-office bonanza twenty years after the last one. But in that context, I’d love to see them break the bank making it only to have it fizzle at the box office due to the smell.

Yeah.... I'm out.

1) Comedy sequels suck.
2) Legacy sequels suck.
3) Legacy comedy sequels REALLY suck.
4) Trump makes this movie much less appealing even.

I'm out too.

Hard to tell if that's bleak irony or depressingly-probable prediction...

Definitely irony!

But who knows, maybe the totally stable global MAGA movement will earn it more revenue than the AVATAR movies because King Pedonnie demands it.

Yeeaah, no.

A lazy not that good, best case scenario ok legacy sequel, still intressets me more than Avatar.

Totally get it, and to each his own! Personally I’m more interested in new takes on the buddy action comedy concept not two old has-beens exhuming a dead franchise to help a sex pest rehabilitate his career at the behest of a kindred spirit.