Yes, That 'Big Trouble in Little China' Remake Is Still Happening
Roughly one year ago, it was announced that Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson was in talks to star in a remake of John Carpenter's classic, Big Trouble in Little China, for 20th Century Fox. At the time it was announced that X-Men: First Class writers Ashley Miller and Zack Stentz were writing the script, and that Johnson was going to play the Jack Burton role made famous by Kurt Russell in the 1986 original. In that film Russell plays a blue-collar truck driver who finds himself roped into a centuries-old battle with an evil sorcerer. The divisive remake -- Big Trouble is one of those properties fans hold near and dear to their hearts -- will likely update that story and contemporize it with a more modern-day spin, utilizing all the latest special effects. That's...
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- 5/25/2016
- by Erik Davis
- Movies.com
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