{"id":44363,"date":"2018-08-27T14:55:24","date_gmt":"2018-08-27T18:55:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/?p=44363"},"modified":"2018-08-27T15:09:49","modified_gmt":"2018-08-27T19:09:49","slug":"dwayne-johnson-big-trouble-little-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2018\/08\/27\/dwayne-johnson-big-trouble-little-china\/","title":{"rendered":"Dwayne Johnson’s BIG TROUBLE IN LITTLE CHINA Project Is Not A Remake"},"content":{"rendered":"

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When it was first reported that Dwayne Johnson\u2019s production company was looking to develop a remake of John Carpenter\u2019s Big Trouble In Little China<\/strong>, fans were not happy.\u00a0 Carpenter\u2019s film, an homage of crazy Shaw Brothers-era wuxia films reset as a modern Hollywood action film, is much loved for its off-kilter sensibilities and for star Kurt Russell\u2019s goofy performance as the swaggering buffoon Jack Burton. But since then, there hasn\u2019t been any news of the project, and I suspect that many fans were just hoping that the whole project had just faded away.<\/p>\n

Well, Johnson\u2019s plans haven\u2019t faded away, but instead are coming into a bit sharper focus as Collider is reporting that the film will not be a remake of Carpenter\u2019s classic but rather a continuation. Speaking with Hiram Garcia, the president of production at Johnson\u2019s Seven Bucks productions shingle, they got this update \u2013 <\/p>\n

\n\u201cThere\u2019s 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\u2019t remake a classic like that, so what we\u2019re planning to do is we\u2019re going to continue the story. We\u2019re 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\u2019s 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\u2019re actually in a really great space with the story that we\u2019ve cracked. But yeah, no remake. It is a continuation, and we are deep into development on that as well, and I think you\u2019ll start hearing some things about that probably soon.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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\nWhile any remake doesn\u2019t mean that the original will somehow vanish from existence, remaking Big Trouble In Little China<\/strong> always seemed like a fool\u2019s errand to me. There is a certain crazy alchemy in what Carpenter created that is just perfect for the material and this does sound like an attempt to capture lightening in a bottle twice.<\/p>\n

But if this is a continuation, that raises the question about the return of Russell for a second go-round as Jack Burton. Would that be something he would be interested in? On the commentary track for the film\u2019s home video release, Russell and Carpenter sure sounded like they had a blast making the film. But if Carpenter isn\u2019t involved for whatever reason, would that be a disincentive to Russell? And if Carpenter were to pass on returning, would another director be able to replicate the original film\u2019s very tricky tone?<\/p>\n

It should be remembered that this is not the first time that there was an attempt to extend the Big Trouble In Little China<\/strong> franchise. In the early 1990s there was an attempt to make a TV movie sequel, that never got past the screenplay stage. We\u2019ll be keeping an eye out to see how far this one gets.<\/p>\n

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Not a remake but a continuation.<\/div>\n

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