ROTTEN TOMATOES: Polanski's Role in "Rush Hour 3"

Polanski's Role in "Rush Hour 3"

by Scott Weinberg | October 27, 2006

Wondering how/why filmmaker Roman Polanski would be appearing in next summer's "Rush Hour 3"? I'll admit I was a little curious, so here's a little scoop: He's playing a French police detective! How ... great.

From Variety: "Roman Polanski will appear in New Line's "Rush Hour 3," starring Chris Tucker and Jackie Chan and currently shooting in Paris.

Polanski's been cast as a French police officer who harasses Tucker and Chan's characters in several scenes while the stars battle a wing of a Chinese organized-crime family.

Though the director's occasionally acted in European films such as Andrzej Wajda's "The Revenge," "Rush Hour 3" marks his first thesping gig in a Hollywood pic since 1974's "Chinatown" as "a man with a knife." After winning the directing Oscar for "The Pianist" three years ago, he last helmed "Oliver Twist."

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rustdog writes:
on Oct 27 2006 06:16 AM

So Ratner will make sure everyone on set is over 18.

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aconline writes:
on Oct 27 2006 08:27 AM

In reply to this comment (#847447)
He would about have to.

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eastern2western writes:
on Oct 27 2006 09:12 AM

Home player. U motherfockers are jealouse because none of u could get pussies like him.

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docholliday504 writes:
on Oct 27 2006 09:20 AM

He slept with a thirteen year old. Eastern2western is your real name John Mark Karr??

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rustdog writes:
on Oct 27 2006 09:47 AM

please eastern2western try to defend a pedophile. I think everyone would enjoy that. I think he's a great director but that doesn't mean you can't disagree with his perverse sexual tendencies. Just like Woody Allen, funny guy great director, married his adopted daughter.

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synergyred writes:
on Oct 27 2006 10:00 AM

Bizzare

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Exeter writes:
on Oct 27 2006 10:30 AM

I imagine that a little part of one's humanity is lost when one's wife is murdered by a member of the Manson family. That's not a defense, but...perhaps it's easy to understand how he developed such tendencies.

Anyway, I hope Rush Hour 3 is worh seeing. I always hate it when good actors/directors do cameos in bad movies.

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Hamsack writes:
on Oct 27 2006 12:50 PM

Hmm, I'm actually really looking forward to this movie now since Polanski joined up. Will be interesting to see him acting again

Now, before everyone throws the whole rape thing around again. I know what he did and I find it awful, but I still respect him as an actor and director.

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The_Corrector writes:
on Oct 27 2006 01:30 PM

In reply to this comment (#847453)
"I imagine that a little part of one's humanity is lost when one's wife is murdered by a member of the Manson family. That's not a defense, but...perhaps it's easy to understand how he developed such tendencies."

I was just a little curious as to whether or not you are in fact a retard?

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fizzypulp writes:
on Oct 28 2006 03:46 AM

In reply to this comment (#847453)
im sorry but bad things happen to everyone but you dont see us going around raping people etc.
He is a good director but he has to pay for his actions and the fact that he is now notorius for the whole rape thing is little justice to him. Any man of worth woudl enter the US and pay for their crime but i guess he is hardly a man at all.

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Matanuki writes:
on Oct 28 2006 08:14 AM

In reply to this comment (#847455)
That's a nearsighted assumption, Corrector. Do you mean to suggest that there are no psychological ramifications for enduring extreme emotional trauma?

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p.lo writes:
on Oct 28 2006 10:19 AM

you know that 'rape' in this case is a term applied when the victim is of an age deemed by the courts not old enough to consent to sex. I seem to remember that the victim stated years later that she forgave polanski for his bad judgement. he was a freaky hollywood player, not the hillside strangler. Now that he's married almost 20 years and in his 70's I'm sure he's not that kind of player anymore.

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getomans writes:
on Oct 28 2006 02:42 PM

I cant wait to see Rush Hour 3, sounds great.

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Exeter writes:
on Oct 29 2006 08:30 PM

In reply to this comment (#847455)
Yes, I imagine I am. In fact, the sign of my retardation, I was told, was my insistence on portraying the other party in a disagreement as mentally deficient. That didn't sit well with my opinion, however, so I blurted out a careless, silly insult and got on without offering much of value to that or any other discussion.

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homerschum writes:
on Oct 29 2006 08:47 PM

Does it have to take forever ... this news of Rush Hour 3 started when the 2nd was released... ugh. I kind of lost interest.

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The_Corrector writes:
on Oct 30 2006 10:12 AM

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I agree that mental anguish will definately be endured. But what you are telling me is, having your wife murdered makes you want to fuck little girls in the ass, that part I don't buy.

http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/polanskicover1.html - if you want to read the grand jury transcript and see how having your wife killed will make you react.

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