Marion Cotillard, Rust & Bone premiere

The Rust & Bone photocall and premiere were the main events for the second day at Cannes. The gallery below features the stars at the photocall and then the evening’s premiere where Marion Cotillard led her cast down the red carpet.{Cannes 2012 Day 2}

But might do it in a decade

At a Cannes press conference to hype up his latest movie — globe-spanning treasure-hunting caper Chinese Zodiac — Jackie Chan announced that he’s done with bone-crunching action for good, but added, “In the future I’ll still do Karate Kid 2, Rush Hour 4…”

This statement, combined with the fact that Rush Hour director Brett Ratner flew into France to help his buddy promote Chinese Zodiac, got us wondering whether the fourquel is actually already underway. But when Empire sat down with Chan after the press conference, he made it clear that he won’t be re-uniting with Chris Tucker any time soon.

“No, no, no! I don’t want it to happen at this moment,” he announced, shaking his head furiously. “Probably another five or ten years. Then will be Rush Hour 4 – boom, we’re coming back! And at that time I might retire. Us being old guys might make it a more interesting story. But at this moment I don’t think it’s something I want to do.”

So there you go. Those keen for more culture-clash carnage may have to wait until 2022, by which time it could be less Rush Hour, more Trudge Hour…

Look out for more from Chan in a future issue of Empire.

From the mouth of Gael García Bernal

Gael García Bernal is in Cannes to help get the word out on his latest movie, No, a gripping (if un-Google-able) drama about the campaign that brought down Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet in 1988. More on that soon, but while we were in Bernal’s presence we asked for an update on two other projects he’s linked to: rapier-slashing reboot Zorro Reborn and Martin Scorsese’s long-gestating epic, Silence.

Zorro would be a change of pace for Bernal, given that his IMDb page is currently devoid of Hollywood blockbusters. Is he worried he might be selling out? “You know, I feel like an outsider now, more than ever,” he says. “I make career deisions that are not necessarily in accord with the expected narrative. But I don’t want to be the boring guy that always says, ‘I don’t want to do a commercial movie”, so I might challenge that by doing one! Why not?”

That said, Zorro’s rebirth is far from a sure thing. While some online sites are reporting that South American director Ricardo de Montreuil has the job, Bernal says, “There’s no start date and I don’t think there’s a director yet. I don’t know if it will happen.”

And he’s just as unsure about Silence, the tale of a missionary sent to the Far East which Scorsese has been trying to get off the ground for over a decade. The director has picked The Wolf Of Wall Street, with Leonardo DiCaprio, to do next, but Bernal says he and Scorsese are still in contact about their possible collaboration.

“It’s about Jesuit priests in Japan in the 18th century. A lot of emotion. A lot of martrydom. We are still talking about it and they are getting the money together. It is an expensive film, so I don’t know if they will manage it. I really hope they do.”