But none of those films made much of an impact for Chan. Previously he’d starred in Robert Clouse’s Battle Creek Brawl (1980) and appeared in The Cannonball Run (1981) and The Protector (1985). Rumble in the Bronx marked his fourth attempt to break into Hollywood. But America was a completely different story. Throughout the 1980s and 1990s, success came easily to Chan in Asia, where his movies were consistently box office hits. JACKIE CHAN WANTED IT TO BE HIS BREAKOUT AMERICAN FILM. In the end, I decided to forget about trying to simulate New York, figuring that people shouldn’t be watching the scenery so much as the action anyway.” 2.

But then we had to paint over it all at the end of the day.

We even hired people to paint the graffiti on the walls. 'And yes, I know there are no mountains in New York City! At first we tried to maintain the illusion, avoiding shooting angles that would show the mountains. “Because of production concerns, Vancouver doubled as the Bronx,' Chan explained in I Am Jackie Chan. But while some viewers were upset that the setting for the film was so clearly fake (“When I spend money to go to a movie called Rumble in the Bronx, I expect the movie to have been filmed in the Bronx-or at least look like it takes place in the Bronx,” Bill Wallace of Black Belt Magazine wrote in 1996), Chan told his biographer that he thinks sticklers for realism are missing the point. The buildings are different, the license plates on the cars all wrong, and, of course, there are forest-covered mountains in the background of many shots. IT WAS FILMED IN VANCOUVER.Īnyone with even a passing knowledge of New York City can see that Rumble in the Bronx wasn’t filmed in the Bronx. Here are 13 things you might not have known about Rumble in the Bronx. Like many of Chan’s best movies, Rumble in the Bronx is light on plot and packed with beautifully choreographed fights and genuinely dangerous stunts. The film, which is full of Chan’s trademark blend of comedy and kung fu, tells the story of a regular guy named Keung (Chan) who comes to the Bronx for his uncle’s wedding and somehow, within hours of his arrival, manages to get mixed up with a local motorcycle gang and a group of diamond thieves. Though the 41-year-old had already been an international superstar for decades, until Rumble in the Bronx, Chan had struggled to make a real splash in the United States. theaters in 1996, Rumble in the Bronx was the film that introduced American audiences to kung fu legend Jackie Chan.

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