Rock’s ‘Big Trouble’ Is Sequel

A while back The Rock announced that he was making a new Big Trouble in Little China movie.  This news went down like a turd in a swimming pool, you don’t remake cult classics like that.

Hiram Garcia, president of production at Dwayne Johnson’s Seven Bucks Productions and one of the producers on the film, tells Collider they’re going to make it a sequel instead of a remake:

“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.”

Seems that the studios are now into making sequels to old movies, recognizing that this is closer in line to the kind of updates people want.