Big Trouble in Little China remake with The Rock

[Octoberist]

It's just a neat, weird movie and it'll be hard for them to capture the spirit of the Carpenter original. It's like remaking Eraserhead. Where that movie is SOOO David Lynch.

http://www.comingsoon.net/movies/ne...o-headline-big-trouble-in-little-china-remake

 

[def28]

Yeah, they need some crazy heads to come up with new and weird ****. They are gonna play this way too safe and mainstream.

Studios really want that 80s kid money don't they? You're next/the only one left McFly!

 

[Fallen Angel]

Why man? messing with classics is becoming the norm.

 

[Black Narcissus]

Why man? messing with classics is becoming the norm.

I won't be surprised with a Back to The Future remake at this rate. Ugh. I love The Rock, but I ain't giving money to this ****, especially to the writers attached.

 

[mclay18]

Miller & Stentz are NOT Orci & Kurtzman. They've written some decent films.

 

[Octoberist]

Yeah but the original is such a love letter to Asian cinema, and I don't if today's market can handle that. It was ahead of its time back then, and it was a bomb.

 

[mclay18]

It's funny how Zack Stentz & Ashley Miller are doing movies with Asian themes. First it was Lionsgate's Power Rangers movie and now the Big Trouble remake.

I can't see how the remake will be a huge hit. Sure, Dwayne Johnson is a popular guy but the remake will have to do a lot of things right in order to draw in the fans from the original.

 

[Drizzle]

Studios really want that 80s kid money don't they? You're next/the only one left McFly!

So it would seem. They're even creeping into the '90s now with remakes of Point Break and The Crow.

 

[Octoberist]

The original one is even hard to describe. I showed it to my young cousins and they all loved it b/c it so weird, and it felt so big despite being a small adventure.

The most important thing to point out is that Jack Burton was an idiot. He wasn't the true hero, and I loved that. I loved David Lo Pan's odd sense of humor. Carpenter did a great job of creating this underworld that exists but nobody knew about.

 

[C. Lee]

I love BIG TROUBLE....saw it a half dozen times at the theater, have the special edition DVD, posters, lobby cards.....fantasticly fun movie. It will be hard to watch a remake.

 

[Black Narcissus]

I love BIG TROUBLE....saw it a half dozen times at the theater, have the special edition DVD, posters, lobby cards.....fantasticly fun movie. It will be hard to watch a remake.

In my top ten of all time. BIG TROUBLE is nostalgia for me. One of the first films my old man showed me.

 

[C. Lee]

The most important thing to point out is that Jack Burton was an idiot. He wasn't the true hero, and I loved that. I loved David Lo Pan's odd sense of humor. Carpenter did a great job of creating this underworld that exists but nobody knew about.

That's one of the best things about it....you see the poster, you see the trailer, you think - Kurt Russel is the great hero with a funny little Asian sidekick......but Kurt is the bumbling loudmouth doofus and the young Asian guy is the competent hero who does things right.

 

[Octoberist]

Maybe The Rock gets it, and maybe he can channel the acting he did in 'Pain & Gain'. It's too early to tell.

 

[C. Lee]

In my top ten of all time. BIG TROUBLE is nostalgia for me. One of the first films my old man showed me.

That's funny....It was one of the last I was able to get my father to go see.

The DVD commentary by Russell and Carpenter is hilarious too.

 

[jmc]

Dear Hollywood,

Do something new for this generation, it's not a lot to ask for.

Regards,
jmc

 

[Black Narcissus]

That's funny....It was one of the last I was able to get my father to go see.

The DVD commentary by Russell and Carpenter is hilarious too.

The commentary is amazing.

 

[Symbiotic]

Dare I say, this could possibly be fun?

 

[Octoberist]

Unless you have McG doing it.

 

[<(o_o)>]

Who will they get as the female love interest? Kim Cattrall was so hot back in the day & in the original BTILC.

 

[StarLord]

All aboard The Pork-Chop Express!

 

[PunyGod]

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[Pink Ranger]

No, just no. No. No to this.

 

[mclay18]

Who will they get as the female love interest? Kim Cattrall was so hot back in the day & in the original BTILC.

She's not aging as gracefully as Dana Delany, but still pretty hot.

 

[ares834]

I'm looking forward to this. I love the original and I love the Rock, so I'm hoping for something good.

And regardless how this turns out, the original will always be there.

 

[Octoberist]

It's just the ratio of GOOD remakes are so slim. It might be good but it's such an unconventional premise that I feel it'll won't have the weirdness or charm of the original.