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Well... I guess The Rock is able to not take himself seriously, but he does tend to play the same part - an angry guy snorting like a bull.
Does this need remaking? No.
Big Trouble, I say again, was ahead of its time in several ways. The Idiot Hero trope may have been pioneered by the likes of Inspector Clouseau, but that was a straight-up comedy. Audiences weren't ready for Kurt Russell, fresh from films like Escape from New York and The Thing, to be the American hero that plays second-fiddle to the Chinese characters.
The Idiot Hero is a common narrative tentpole all the way up to Emmett in The Lego Movie.
The other thing BTiLC pioneered was implementing Asian martial arts film-making. 14 years later, Crouching Tiger won an Oscar.
A remake may well be a whimsical jape and introduce a new audience to the original, but there will be nothing pioneering about it. :/
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Would rather kurt did a sequel, there has been a petition in the Internet for years asking this to happen
Big trouble is in my top 5 movies of all time and I adore it but it's not all original, the 3 storms were a complete rip off of another movie called shogun assassin (masters of death)never right down to the giant bamboo hats
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Originally posted by QualityChimp View PostBig Trouble, I say again, was ahead of its time in several ways. The Idiot Hero trope may have been pioneered by the likes of Inspector Clouseau, but that was a straight-up comedy. Audiences weren't ready for Kurt Russell, fresh from films like Escape from New York and The Thing, to be the American hero that plays second-fiddle to the Chinese characters.
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Three years ago came word that Dwayne Johnson wanted to both produce and star in a remake of John Carpenter’s iconic 1986 fantasy action-comedy “Big Trouble in Little China” – a proposition that made the original’s fans very nervous. Things did not improve when Carpenter himself revealed he was only made aware of the project […]
This is still on the cards but the real reveal is that it's been confirmed that the film isn't a remake of the 80's original, it is in fact Big Trouble in Little China 2
Johnson will play a new character in the film which is canon to the original but each is said to be pretty standalone.
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