Big Trouble in Little ChinaIs Finally Getting the Remake We All Feared

It was inevitable , but it ’s still a bummer . Fox will remake John Carpenter ’s amazing , agency - ahead - of - its - time legal action flick Big Trouble in Little China , with Dwayne “ The Rock ” Johnson attach to star as Jack Burton , in the beginning play by Kurt Russell .

seemingly the original is one of the Rock ’s best-loved movies . It ’s one of mine , too , which is why I know that no amount of New VFX or authentic martial arts choreography could ever improve upon Carpenter ’s original . The reason it ’s a cult classic is because of all the affair modern picture ca n’t supercede — like the dialogue , in which most hoi polloi seem to be having altogether dissimilar conversations with each other . Or Russell ’s sublime performance , which has the swash Burton entirely nonplus at virtually everything that happens to him . Then there ’s the ‘ 80s - point taste of Taiwanese mythology and polish , which probably would n’t fly today , nor should it .

search , hired gun to my head , if Big Trouble in Little China call for to be remade , I ’d probably put the Rock at the top of the list to play Jack Burton . He ’s an activeness star with great comedic timing , But still , the opportunity for this to go horribly , dreadfully wrong are immense . First of all , does the Rock see Jack Burton is the bumbling crony in this picture show ? Can the remake somehow perfectly straddle the course between action and comedy like the original ? Will it accidentally cross over into racial insensitivity ? Wo n’t a vast summer megahit budget as such shift the movie ’s identity , no matter how reliably they seek to recreate it ?