Chris Tucker holds up Rush Hour 3
"He wants too much power. The movie company hasn't obliged. He wants final editing rights and the final look at the movie and so on," Chan told The Associated Press Thursday.
Chan called Tucker a "good friend" but questioned whether he had the stature to be so demanding.
"He's still a new actor," Chan, 51, said. "How many movies has he made? Two movies have already made him very famous and made him a lot of money."
"He needs to learn slowly," he added.
A call by The Associated Press to Tucker's publicist, Samantha Mast, wasn't returned Friday.
While Rush Hour 3 remains in limbo, Chan said he's going ahead with another project - one with famed Chinese director Zhang Yimou. Zhang's recent films include House of Flying Daggers and Hero.
Chan declined to reveal details of the movie, saying only that it would be "galvanizing" and is set in the 1980s. He said the idea is his, but Zhang will work on the script.
"He relies on imagination ... like an arrow flying through water," said Chan. "He has elevated the martial arts genre. I believe he can make any type of movie now."
Rush Hour 3 was released August 10th, 2007 and stars Chris Tucker, Jackie Chan, Max von Sydow, Hiroyuki Sanada, Yvan Attal, Youki Kudoh, Noémie Lenoir, Jingchu Zhang. The film is directed by Brett Ratner.
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elannajuana
f*ck that, chris tucker is the sh*t. I think the hardest thing to do is make people laugh and he does a comic genious >:-]
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superman23
I agree with jackie on this one. I can count how many movie he did one one hand. Please come down off ur high horse man. When you get denzel stauts then people will listen to u then. But get some more movie under your belt frist. I as a fan don't keep away from us for so long. If u stay away you will have to come back hard to get us back. Think about it
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