His partner may have implored him, "Forget it Jake, it's Chinatown," but Jack Nicholson is not quite willing to forget Jake Gittes and his dark and mysterious Los Angeles adventures. It's been 17 years since Nicholson last assumed the Gittes moniker, but with the release of "Chinatown" and its sequel "The Two Jakes" on DVD, don't look now but Jack's got a third installment on the brain.

In a rare interview last week, Nicholson revealed exclusively to MTV News the grand initial vision for a "Chinatown" trilogy that he and writer Robert Towne hatched. Says the legendary actor, "We always planned on making three films. We wanted it all to be tied into elemental things. 'Chinatown' is obviously water. 'The Two Jakes' is fire and energy. And the third film was meant to be about Gittes' divorce and relate to air." Read more...

Sure, we get to talk to some pretty amazing people here. But there's something a little bit different about Jack Nicholson. The man just doesn't talk to the press. Just ask James Lipton. He's been begging Big Jack to be on his show for years. So when I learned not so long ago that Nicholson had consented to my request to talk, you'll forgive me if I was a bit taken aback. I've interviewed John Travolta. Just recently I re-enacted a scene from "Rocky IV" with Apollo Creed himself. But Nicholson?!?

The first thing Jack did when our chat began was to ask me to remind him of my name. "This way I'll know it for at least a few minutes," he said in tandem with the most famous chuckle perhaps in the world. And we were off to the races. Check out my extensive conversation with Jack Nicholson right here.