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 Three years ago we heard that that
Dwayne Johnson wanted to produce and star in a remake of John Carpenter’s Big
Trouble in Little China. Carpenter found out about it at the same time as
everyone else. He has no involvement in the new one which will be written by
X-Men: First Class’ Ashley Miller and Zack Stentz. Johnson says he loves the
original film and wanted to make a new version. The charm of the original was
Kurt Russell played Jack Burton as an idiot, who succeeds due to dumb luck. That
made the film special but some were turned off at seeing a hero who was
basically a clown. Fans became a lot less worried when Hiram Garcia, president
of production at Johnson’s Seven Bucks Productions told Collider they’re not
going the remake route: "There are a lot of things going on with Big Trouble in
Little China. We are in the process of developing that, and let me tell you, the
idea is not to actually remake Big Trouble in Little China. You can’t remake a
classic like that, so what we’re planning to do is we’re going to continue the
story. We’re going to continue the universe of Big Trouble in Little China.
Everything that happened in the original exists and is standalone and I think
there’s only one person that could ever play Jack Burton, so Dwayne would never
try and play that character. So we are just having a lot of fun. We’re actually
in a really great space with the story that we’ve cracked. But yeah, no remake.
It is a continuation, and we are deep into development on that as well, and I
think you’ll start hearing some things about that probably soon." Johnson has at
least two films to do before the film can be made but Carpenter said this: "They
want a movie with Dwayne Johnson. That’s what they want. So they just picked
that title. They don’t give a crap about me and my movie. That movie wasn’t a
success." So he isn’t a fan. |
