Owen Wilson box office. He made a cameo appearance in the Girl Skateboards video "Yeah Right!" in 2003. He then reunited with Chan to make "Shanghai Knights" (2003), and co-starred in the film remake of the 1970s television series "Starsky & Hutch" (2004). Due to his busy schedule as an actor and an ongoing sinus condition, Wilson was unavailable to collaborate on the script for Wes Anderson's fourth feature film, "The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou". The 2004 film was ultimately co-written by filmmaker Noah Baumbach. However, Wilson did star in the film as Bill Murray's would-be son, Ned Plimpton; a role
The Darjeeling Limited last feature, the $50 million folly "The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou", which was an artistic and commercial flop, Anderson could only go upward." Dana Stevens of "Slate" magazine wrote, "Maybe Anderson needs to shoot someone else's screenplay, to get outside his own head for a while and into another's sensibility. It's telling that his funniest and liveliest recent work was a commercial for American Express." Kyle Smith of the "New York Post" gave the film 1 stars out of 4 and said "At a stage in Anderson’s career when he should be moving on, he is instead circling back."