\n2. JACKIE CHAN WANTED IT TO BE HIS BREAKOUT AMERICAN FILM.<\/span><\/strong>
\nThroughout the 1980s and 1990s, success came easily to Chan in Asia, where his movies were consistently box office hits. But America was a completely different story. Rumble in the Bronx<\/em> marked his fourth attempt to break into Hollywood. Previously he\u2019d starred in Robert Clouse\u2019s Battle Creek Brawl<\/em> (1980) and appeared in The Cannonball Run<\/em> (1981) and The Protector<\/em> (1985). But none of those films made much of an impact for Chan. For Rumble in the Bronx<\/em>, he decided it was time to take things into his own hands: Instead of looking for the right role in a big-budget Hollywood film, he decided to make a Hong Kong film that could work as a cross-over hit.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n
\n8. CHAN DECIDED TO MAKE RUMBLE<\/em> IN THE BRONX<\/em> AFTER TURNING DOWN A ROLE IN <\/span><\/strong>DEMOLITION MAN.<\/span><\/strong>
\n<\/em>Before he decided to make Rumble in the Bronx<\/em>, Chan was hoping to find his breakout role in an American movie. He was friends with Sylvester Stallone, who repeatedly offered him roles in his upcoming films\u2014which Chan, for one reason or another, repeatedly turned down. In I Am Jackie Chan<\/em>, Chan recalled, \u201cAnother film Stallone offered me was Demolition Man<\/em>, a movie with Sandra Bullock from the movie Speed<\/em>. He wanted me to play a super villain running loose in the far future, chased by a super cop, played by him. I didn\u2019t feel right about that role either. It ended up going to Wesley Snipes\u2014so the two people I\u2019d wanted to work with, and couldn\u2019t, ended up working with each other.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n
\n11. ROGER EBERT COMPARED CHAN TO FRED ASTAIRE.<\/span><\/strong>
\n\u201cAny attempt to defend this movie on rational grounds is futile,\u201d Roger Ebert wrote in his review of the film. \u201cDon’t tell me about the plot and the dialogue. Don’t dwell on the acting. The whole point is Jackie Chan\u2014and, like Astaire and Rogers, he does what he does better than anybody.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Anna Green and Mental_Floss present 13 Action-Packed Facts About Rumble in the Bronx. Here are three of my favorites… 2. JACKIE<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[17,54,65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-celebs","category-movies","category-trivia","comments-off"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15271","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15271"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15271\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15273,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15271\/revisions\/15273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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