Earlier this year Jackie Chan decided to announce that he would be quitting action movies; this appears to be nothing more than a lie. At a press conference in Kuala Lumpur for his latest release Chinese Zodiac he confirmed his involvement in The Expendables 3.

“Sly had invited me to be in ‘Expendables 2‘ but I was too busy filming ‘CZ12‘ and couldn’t make a commitment to the film. But he did extend his invitation to the third movie, which I agreed on the condition that I will be appearing as more than just a minor role with a few scenes,” which is brilliant news! Chan also said that he asked Stallone if the third installment of the action packed franchise could be more of a buddy-buddy movie which means that Sylvester Stallone and Jackie Chan could be a sort of hero and sidekick team in the next film with Jason Statham and the rest taking a bit of a backseat.

I can’t wait to see Jackie Chan join the rest of the action heavyweights on the big screen. I would love to see a big fight scene between Jackie Chan and Jason Statham, or Chan taking on Jet Li. The fans of these films would love to see fight scenes like these!

And another brilliant series that Jackie Chan has involvement with is, of course, Rush Hour and Chan also updated everyone on the film that the world wants: Rush Hour 4. Apparently a script has been written and Chris Tucker is looking over it as we speak. However, Chan has stated it wasn’t written with any intention to be a Rush Hour 4, it is just a buddy cop movie but Chan thought that if Tucker would get on board then it would make a perfect next chapter for one of the most fun trilogies out there!

But Chan has said that if Chris Tucker turns it down then he will look for another actor to star alongside him and it could just be the start of another buddy cop trilogy.