Dwayne Johnson to Headline Big Trouble in Little China Remake!

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http://www.superherohype.com/news/342573-dwayne-johnson-to-headline-big-trouble-in-little-china-remake

Im just gonna leave you lot with this article and headline. I dont need to add anything, I believe the majority of the gang here will share my sentiments . . . .

[QualityChimp]

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. :/

[buster_broon]

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

[Asura]

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 way I've always seen BTILC is that Kurt Russell has wandered into someone else's Kung Fu movie.

[Neon Ignition]

http://www.darkhorizons.com/rocks-little-china-is-a-sequel-not-a-remake/

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.

[Dogg Thang]

I like it. That's the way to do it.

[Brad]

[buster_broon]

Aye sold now, just hope it's as good as the first

[Dogg Thang]

[MENTION=9465]Brad[/MENTION] - I don't get it. It's the pic from the PC thread...?

[Brad]

Wtf! Was supposed to be a pic of Mr punch.!

[Dogg Thang]

Oh! I thought it was some really obscure but probably very smart joke. Took me a moment to figure out the Mr Punch thing too but I got it now. I get jokes.

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