John Carpenter's Big Trouble in Little China is about as sublimely perfect as a movie can get. Kurt Russell is impossibly good as Jack Burton, a bumbling truck driver who finds himself caught up in an increasingly weird plot involving kidnapped women and an ancient Chinese sorcerer who needs to make them his brides in order to regain his true form.
The phrase "they don't make them like they used to" doesn't even apply to Big Trouble in Little China, because nobody ever really made movies like it. Big Trouble is a truly unique gem for its stars, its genre and its director -- and it still gets better and better every single time you watch it.
And now it's getting a remake starring this guy...
No, not Kurt Russell -- Jack Burton! Only this time he'll be played by none other than Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson according to The Wrap.
The Rock is certainly no stranger to comedy and making himself look dumb, so he could probably make for a pretty decent Jack Burton. And the world Jack finds himself in is definitely big enough, odd enough and filled with enough avenues for different stories that this doesn't need to be a direct remake. Basically, just have Johnson play a new truck driver who gets in over his head, and you're not off to a bad start.
The remake will be written by Ashley Miller and Zack Stentz, a duo who has worked on the likes of Thor and X-Men: First Class, so expect a movie that might be a bit bigger than the original. Big Trouble in Big China, perhaps?
After all, everything gets bigger when the Rock gets cookin'.
