CBS has landed the new TV series based from the popular Jackie Chan and Chris Tucker action comedy movie "Rush Hour."
According to reports by The Hollywood Reporter, the network has ordered a pilot-production for an hour-long action comedy based from the blockbuster movie franchise.
"Cougar Town's" Bill Lawrence said the TV remake will have the similar tome to the New Line Cinema films and will follow a Hong Kong Police Officer who is assigned to a case in LA, where he's forced to work with a black LAPD officer.
Lawrence and colleague Blake McCormick will write and executive produce the project, which hails form Warner Brothers Television, where the former's Doozer Productions is under a deal.
The trilogy's director, Brett Ratner, and producer Arthut Sarkissian are also on board to executive produce alongside Lawrence, McCormick, and Jeff Ingold.
Combined, the three New Line features have grossed nearly $850 million worldwide, with Chan saying in August that he was waiting for the right script to do a fourth movie in the franchise.
Lawrence also has a comedy with Justin Halpern, Johnagin and Patrick Schumacker in the works at CBS.
He also has a multi-camera show "The Meatball Project" that is written by Jeff Astrof.
The "Scrubs" alum also has the second season of NBC's summer comedy "Undateable and TBS comedy "Ground Floor."
"Rush Hour" is not the only movie to get a TV Series makeover.
Fox is adapting Tom Hanks' "Big" with "Enlisted" producers and has "Minority Report" in production.
NBC has greenlighted adaptations for "Problem Child" and "Real Genius."
