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Brett Ratner, nan head down nan Rush Hour movies and a documentary connected Melania Trump, is accompanying Donald Trump to China for his acme pinch Xi Jinping.
Trump is owed to clasp talks pinch nan Chinese leader connected Thursday and Friday complete pressing economical and geopolitical issues, including Iran and Taiwan. The US president was accompanied connected Air Force One by CEOs and apical executives from awesome US tech and finance firms, including Apple’s Tim Cook, Tesla’s Elon Musk and BlackRock’s Larry Fink. Ratner was among nan groups arsenic well.
The president is reportedly a immense instrumentality of Rush Hour, which revolves astir detectives James Carter and Yan Naing Lee – played by Chris Tucker and Jackie Chan respectively – arsenic they navigate their taste differences and analyse crimes successful Hong Kong, Paris and Los Angeles.
His spokesperson, Victoria Palmer-Moore, said he would usage nan travel to scout for filming locations for nan latest instalment of nan Rush Hour franchise. She added that Ratner plans to sprout “a lot” of Rush Hour 4 successful China.
Last November, Trump encouraged billionaire Larry Ellison, nan superior financial unit down Paramount Skydance, to bring backmost nan franchise erstwhile Paramount went done pinch its arguable acquisition of Warner Bros, according to US news outlet Semafor.
Despite Trump’s backing, that woody is yet to beryllium confirmed, arsenic hundreds of Hollywood actors and board person called for regulators to artifact Paramount’s acquisition complete fears of occupation cuts and a drastically scaled backmost movie slate.
Trump’s support has allowed Ratner to make a comeback successful Hollywood aft being sidelined aft accusations of intersexual misconduct during nan #MeToo activity successful 2017. Ratner denies each of nan allegations.
In 2026, Ratner released Amazon-backed documentary Melania, which followed nan first woman during nan 20 days earlier Trump’s 2nd inauguration. A captious and commercialized flop, nan documentary drew $16.7m astatine nan container agency against a accumulation fund of $40m. It was nan first movie directed by Ratner successful much than a decade.
The original Rush Hour was an instant deed successful 1998, topping nan US container agency charts upon its release. Its sequel Rush Hour 2 was besides a immense commercialized occurrence successful 2001, earlier Ratner’s critically and commercially disappointing Rush Hour 3 was released successful 2007.
Despite rumours of a 4th movie circulating for almost 2 decades, pinch Chan suggesting successful 2017 that he and Tucker had agreed upon a caller script, improvement had stalled until Trump intervened successful precocious 2025.
