Dwayne Johnson’s ‘Big Trouble in Little China’ Will Be a Sequel

Big Trouble in Little China

How do you remake a classic? You don’t, you make a sequel. And that’s just what Dwayne Johnson is doing with Big Trouble in Little China.

 

Just like his successful Jumanji revival, Johnson’s Big Trouble in Little China won’t attempt to retread old ground. Instead the creators are looking to continue the story, and move the world forward in new and exciting ways.

 

Speaking with Collider, Hiram Garcia (President of Production at Johnson’s Seven Bucks Productions) said;

“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.”

 

I think fans of the original will agree that no one could replace Kurt Russel as Jack Burton. And, of course, the door is now open for his return. Whether or not he will is the big question. For that answer we’ll probably have to wait until the film is much closer to production, but for now it’s exciting to think that he could.