Would you like to really feel previous for a second? It has been 25 years since Shanghai Noon got here out. The motion comedy starred Jackie Chan and Owen Wilson within the Outdated West and was a enjoyable combination of martial arts, slapstick comedy, and extra romance than we actually anticipated, gaining sufficient of an viewers to spawn a sequel in 2003. Since then, there have been quite a few reviews of a potential third movie within the collection, but it surely has at all times been hung up by one particular person; Jackie Chan.
Throughout an interview to promote the upcoming second season of Wednesday on Netflix, co-creators and showrunners Al Gough and Miles Millar had been requested in regards to the standing of the long-awaited Shanghai Noon sequel, Shanghai Daybreak, because the pair additionally wrote the screenplay for that. Evidently they got here shut a few instances to making it occur, but it surely was at all times hung up by one thing.
“We might love to make a third one and shut out that trilogy, and we got here shut eight years in the past,” Gough defined. “We had damaged a story. [Jackie Chan] circled it. [Owen Wilson] wished to do it.”
Presently, the maintain up is Jackie Chan himself, although the enduring martial arts actor is nonetheless apparently . “Humorous sufficient, I simply heard from Jackie a couple weeks in the past, speaking about it once more,” Gough added. “We serve on the pleasure of Jackie on that.”
In fact, the pair of Gough and Millar have a lot on their plate in the mean time, with Wednesday season two set to debut on August 6, 2025 and a third season already greenlit by Netflix. Nonetheless, there is at all times the prospect that they will discover the time to match that Shanghai Noon sequel in sooner or later.