If do right... no can defend

[ChadTower]

http://www.boston.com/ae/celebrity/articles/2007/10/02/will_smiths_karate_kid/

Great... a little 9 year old black kid that doesn't fit in in CA... that's a believable premise.  Or are they going to dress him up like an Italian from Brooklyn?

[FooMonk]

Also, Jackie Chan as Mr. Miyagi? Are they making a comedy?

[ChadTower]

Daniel, use the Crane Technique... first, you jump on this log, then bounce off the wall and balance on some plexiglass, swing from the chandelier through the rungs of a ladder and then poke bad guy in eye.  Watch.

[shmokes]

Is Will Smith's kid gonna have to get drunk before he's able to triumph in the final fight?

[ChadTower]

If Will Smith cares about his son he won't try and make him a child star.

[missioncontrol]

this will not end well 

[Hoopz]

"Get him a body bag!"

[mr.Curmudgeon]

I say they should cast Ralph Macchio as the Karate Kid! He'd fit the role perfectly!!   

[shardian]

He'll get beat up by some "gang bangers", then learn jap slappy from Chan. Then when he goes to whoop up on the guys with his new moves, they pump him full of bullets.

Sounds like a good story to me. 

The remake game is getting WAY too carried away. Hello people, not every movie in the world needs to be remade.

[Dartful Dodger]

The last sequel to Karate Kid had a girl in it. 
This is just Karate Kid 5  ...or 6, I lost count.

If they really wanted an original story they should cast an old white woman teaching a Chinese kid Karate.

[Apollo]

The remake game is getting WAY too carried away. Hello people, not every movie in the world needs to be remade.

I totally agree there are some movies that just don't need remaking, how could anyone make the original Karate Kid better? It's just too awesome already. Wax on, wax off.


Heh hehe I said wax off

[shardian]

The remake game is getting WAY too carried away. Hello people, not every movie in the world needs to be remade.

I totally agree there are some movies that just don't need remaking, how could anyone make the original Karate Kid better? It's just too awesome already. Wax on, wax off.


Heh hehe I said wax off

Jackie Chan is a strange choice too. The whole point of Mr. Miyagi in part one was you had to wonder if the old crackpot was really a Karate master, or just using the poor kid. With Jackie Chan in the role, it just ruins the whole setup. Not to mention he will try to take over the movie...

[boykster]

Chris Tucker cameo in 5.....4......3......2..............

 

[ChadTower]

...as the bad uncle who gets Daniel high the day before the regional tournament.

[shmokes]

If Will Smith cares about his son he won't try and make him a child star.

It's too late.  The kid who played Will Smith's son in Pursuit of Happyness IS Will Smith's son IRL.  And he was really good.  And kids don't get much cuter.  The kid is already a star.  Hopefully he's fine, though.  Lots of them turn out fine.  Ana Paquinn (Rogue in X-Men) won an oscar for her performance in The Piano when she was like 7 or 9 or something.  There are definitely risks, but as long as the parents are smart about it, which I think is possible, he'll be fine.  One advantage they have is that they are already multi-bajillionaires.  A lot of kids who get ---fouled up beyond all recognition--- up from being child stars have ---fouled up beyond all recognition--- up parents who will turn a blind eye to unhealthy situations because they paycheck is so tempting.

Or not . . . I'm just talking out ---my bottom---.  I've got no experience with it.

[Ed_McCarron]

A lot of kids who get ---fouled up beyond all recognition--- up from being child stars have ---fouled up beyond all recognition--- up parents who will turn a blind eye to unhealthy situations because they paycheck is so tempting.

Maybe they should sue.  Its not a product, after all...



 

[SavannahLion]

The remake game is getting WAY too carried away. Hello people, not every movie in the world needs to be remade.

I totally agree there are some movies that just don't need remaking, how could anyone make the original Karate Kid better? It's just too awesome already. Wax on, wax off.


Heh hehe I said wax off

Jackie Chan is a strange choice too. The whole point of Mr. Miyagi in part one was you had to wonder if the old crackpot was really a Karate master, or just using the poor kid. With Jackie Chan in the role, it just ruins the whole setup. Not to mention he will try to take over the movie...

Yeah, that kind of struck me as a little odd too.

Personally, I think the film is going to suck ass. As much as I like Jackie Chan, I just don't see Will Smith being able to top what the original film gave us.

They're just making money off of the fact that kids today are so retarded. Studios can make a film about absolutely nothing and make insane amounts of money. I'm not saying the 80's were immune to craptastic films. It just seems to me that there are more craptastic films than there was in the 80's. I like movies and I try to give every movie a chance, no matter how lame it may be. But it really stretches my tolerances when movies like, "The Adventures of Lava Girl and Shark Boy," "Bratz," and, "Daddy Day Camp," are considered the epitome of children movies.

What the ---fudgesicle---? What the hell happened to having a ---smurfing--- commune with 99 guys and 1 woman all living in giant mushrooms and having daily acid trips where they see a giant?

[lharles]

I think that it should be against the law to remake anything newer than forty years old.  Some stinkers that I can think of that were terrible affronts to the originals:

'Psycho' remake...
'La Femme Nikita' remake - 'Point Of No Return'...
'Alfie' remake...

...not to mention I think that movies based on television shows should at least be true to the original spirit of the shows.  I realize it's easy to make a comedy out of some of these shows but some folks actually watched the shows when they were originally on and didn't notice or become aware of the camp until years later. 

'Starsky and Hutch'
'Dukes Of Hazzard' - (HATED this show as a kid)
...and I've heard rumors of an 'A-Team' movie...screw that up and I'm comin' for ya'! 

[jbox]

I think that it should be against the law to remake anything newer than forty years old.

Does that include all the foreign films that get re-made as "American originals"? 

[shmokes]

Apparently . . . La Femme Nikita made the list.

But, with the 40-year rule we'd be without Dawn of the Dead, The Italian Job, The Ring, The Fly, Thomas Crown Affair.

[psik0tik]

I don't wanna be captain obvious but...as far as I remember Daniel LaRusso was a white kid. And before you start screeching racism....shouldn't we be true to the original. And Jakie Chan?...come on he's going to make a terrible Mr. Miyagi...his voice isn't deep enough and he doesn't have enough grey hair.

[mr.Curmudgeon]

I supposed it doesn't matter what the characters look like if they consider the film a "re-imagining" of the movie, as opposed to a remake. Artistic license and all. There's a whole generation of kids that have never seen the original film...and couldn't care less about "wax on, wax off".

[missioncontrol]

There's a whole generation of kids that have never seen the original film...and couldn't care less about "wax on, wax off".

I blame the parents for being irresponsible...

[Ed_McCarron]

There's a whole generation of kids that have never seen the original film...and couldn't care less about "wax on, wax off".

I blame the parents for being irresponsible...

C'mon, fess up, you used to beg to polish cars so you could learn karate, right?

[abrannan]

And Jakie Chan?...come on he's going to make a terrible Mr. Miyagi...his voice isn't deep enough and he doesn't have enough grey hair.

Chan's definitely too young for Miyagi.  I personally would have liked to see Sonny Chiba as Mr. Miyagi.  He can definitely pull off the gruff groundskeeper thing. 

But hey, this way Will Smith gets to send his son to martial arts classes taught by professional stuntmen, with additional lessons from Jackie Chan, and he (likely) will turn a decent profit out of the venture.

[shardian]

And Jakie Chan?...come on he's going to make a terrible Mr. Miyagi...his voice isn't deep enough and he doesn't have enough grey hair.

Chan's definitely too young for Miyagi.  I personally would have liked to see Sonny Chiba as Mr. Miyagi.  He can definitely pull off the gruff groundskeeper thing. 

But hey, this way Will Smith gets to send his son to martial arts classes taught by professional stuntmen, with additional lessons from Jackie Chan, and he (likely) will turn a decent profit out of the venture.

What's he need Karate Lessons for? Daniel San did just fine without a single lesson.

[missioncontrol]

There's a whole generation of kids that have never seen the original film...and couldn't care less about "wax on, wax off".

I blame the parents for being irresponsible...

C'mon, fess up, you used to beg to polish cars so you could learn karate, right?

used too? I still do....

and after 13 years of marriage my wax off technique has improved 

[ChadTower]

Chan isn't too young... he's in his 50s.  I guess Chinese is close enough to Japanese in this case unless he's going to be learning Miyagi-do Kung Fu.

And since when does 9 year old black kid not equal 16 year old Italian kid?   

One of the best parts of that movie is that it's the same blonde rich ---rectal-santizer--- as the villian that was in every other 80s movie... you can track him all the way from like 5th grade up to college via the 80s movies in which he was a ---tallywhacker---.