With a new Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson movie announced almost daily, you wouldn’t be blamed if you forgot that one of his upcoming projects is none other than a remake of John Carpenter’s “Big Trouble in Little China.” The 1986 film is a cult classic, and features of one of the best performances of Kurt Russell’s career, giving us a hero, in Jack Burton, that has been copied countless times since. But according to a new report, it appears that Johnson’s ‘Big Trouble’ film isn’t the remake we anticipated.
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In an interview with Collider, Seven Bucks Productions’ (The Rock’s production company) president Hiram Garcia wants to set the record straight. You see, Johnson isn’t trying to be this generation’s Jack Burton. His “Big Trouble in Little China” is going to be a sequel of sorts.
Here’s what Garcia had to say about the upcoming sequel(?):
“There’s 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’t remake a classic like that, so what we’re planning to do is we’re going to continue the story. We’re 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’s 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’re actually in a really great space with the story that we’ve cracked. But yeah, no remake. It is a continuation, and we are deep into development on that as well, and I think you’ll start hearing some things about that probably soon.”
Now, granted Garcia says that Johnson won’t take over the role made famous by Russell, but one can’t help but assume that whatever character The Rock plays, let’s just call him Schmack Schmurton, it will greatly resemble Russell. Otherwise, why make a ‘Big Trouble’ film, unless Schmack Schmurton is a loveable loser of a hero that is arrogant, but in way over his head?
We’ll have to wait and see, if and when Dwayne Johnson’s “Big Trouble in Little China” hits theaters.