# Dwayne Johnson, aka The Rock, to star in Big Trouble in Little China remake **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 2, 2015, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dwayne-johnson-aka-the-rock-to-star-in-big-trouble-in-little-china-remake/721448 "2015-06-02T16:09:09Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Sefton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5daacb/32.png) [@Sefton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sefton)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2015, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dwayne-johnson-aka-the-rock-to-star-in-big-trouble-in-little-china-remake/721448/41 "2015-06-02T21:44:19Z")
You’re all so concerned about Jack Burton, but I’m interested in the special effects. As a kid, I held my breath during [this scene](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JM6Z3wgMNlY). I can only imagine what they’ll do with it today. As long as the remake isn’t awful, I’ll catch it in the theater. ---
**Author:** ![ExTank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/35a633/32.png) [@ExTank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ExTank)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2015, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dwayne-johnson-aka-the-rock-to-star-in-big-trouble-in-little-china-remake/721448/42 "2015-06-02T21:46:58Z")
> [@muldoonthief](#): > > Story here: > > [Dwayne Johnson to Star in 'Big Trouble in Little China' Remake (Exclusive) - TheWrap](http://www.thewrap.com/dwayne-the-rock-johnson-to-star-in-big-trouble-in-little-china-remake-exclusive/) > > Not a done deal, but based on the San Andreas opening, I’d guess they’ll make it happen. I wonder what ol’ Jack Burton will have to say about that? Who are these people? Friends of yours, huh? Now this really pisses me off to no end! ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2015, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dwayne-johnson-aka-the-rock-to-star-in-big-trouble-in-little-china-remake/721448/43 "2015-06-02T21:49:47Z")
Next up, he’ll be Wesley in the remake of _The Princess Bride._ ---
**Author:** ![muldoonthief](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muldoonthief/32/3188_2.png) [@muldoonthief](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/muldoonthief)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2015, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dwayne-johnson-aka-the-rock-to-star-in-big-trouble-in-little-china-remake/721448/44 "2015-06-02T22:14:24Z")
> [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](#): > > You shouldn’t call him that; he now prefers “Black Blood Of The Earth”. You mean oil? ---
**Author:** ![Lemur866](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lemur866/32/434_2.png) [@Lemur866](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lemur866)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2015, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dwayne-johnson-aka-the-rock-to-star-in-big-trouble-in-little-china-remake/721448/45 "2015-06-02T22:15:42Z")
> [@Chimera](#): > > I don’t understand why Hollywood insists on remaking movies that never made any money to begin with, but are cult classics. [And yet we all keep trying, like fools](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iWchWck4omM). ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2015, 10:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dwayne-johnson-aka-the-rock-to-star-in-big-trouble-in-little-china-remake/721448/46 "2015-06-02T22:18:09Z")
> [@muldoonthief](#): > > You mean oil? I mean Black Blood Of The Earth! ---
**Author:** ![phreesh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/9fc29f/32.png) [@phreesh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/phreesh)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2015, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dwayne-johnson-aka-the-rock-to-star-in-big-trouble-in-little-china-remake/721448/47 "2015-06-02T22:26:23Z")
Ninja’d ---
**Author:** ![Battle\_Pope](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4bbf92/32.png) [@Battle\_Pope](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Battle_Pope)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2015, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dwayne-johnson-aka-the-rock-to-star-in-big-trouble-in-little-china-remake/721448/48 "2015-06-02T22:34:46Z")
Is it getting hot in here, or is it just me? ---
**Author:** ![muldoonthief](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muldoonthief/32/3188_2.png) [@muldoonthief](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/muldoonthief)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2015, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dwayne-johnson-aka-the-rock-to-star-in-big-trouble-in-little-china-remake/721448/49 "2015-06-02T22:58:06Z")
> [@phreesh](#): > > Ninja’d Wrong country. ---
**Author:** ![DocCathode](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doccathode/32/18773_2.png) [@DocCathode](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DocCathode)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2015, 2:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dwayne-johnson-aka-the-rock-to-star-in-big-trouble-in-little-china-remake/721448/50 "2015-06-03T02:18:47Z")
I heard this news and immediately felt the urge to kill. Now, I better run, run into the mystic night ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Angel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/d26b3c/32.png) [@Johnny\_Angel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Angel)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2015, 2:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dwayne-johnson-aka-the-rock-to-star-in-big-trouble-in-little-china-remake/721448/51 "2015-06-03T02:53:08Z")
I actually thought that part of the glory of this movie was that American audiences had never seen anything as wild as a sword fight that takes place in midair, whereas if I understand it such a thing was common in Chinese action films even then. Hell, in the 80’s they could still exploit the fact that anything Asian was disorienting (as it were) to a western audience. But aren’t we all a lot more cosmopolitan now? ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2015, 3:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dwayne-johnson-aka-the-rock-to-star-in-big-trouble-in-little-china-remake/721448/52 "2015-06-03T03:16:19Z")
I thought Egg Shen was the protagonist. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Suburban\_Plankton](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/suburban_plankton/32/219_2.png) [@Suburban\_Plankton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Suburban_Plankton)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2015, 4:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dwayne-johnson-aka-the-rock-to-star-in-big-trouble-in-little-china-remake/721448/53 "2015-06-03T04:50:15Z")
> [@DocCathode](#): > > I heard this news and immediately felt the urge to kill. > > Now, I better run, run into the mystic night Are you crazy… Is that your problem? ---
**Author:** ![Battle\_Pope](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4bbf92/32.png) [@Battle\_Pope](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Battle_Pope)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2015, 6:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dwayne-johnson-aka-the-rock-to-star-in-big-trouble-in-little-china-remake/721448/54 "2015-06-03T06:54:23Z")
Don’t make get my six-demon bag! ---
**Author:** ![Penfeather](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/penfeather/32/384_2.png) [@Penfeather](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Penfeather)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2015, 8:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dwayne-johnson-aka-the-rock-to-star-in-big-trouble-in-little-china-remake/721448/55 "2015-06-03T08:57:16Z")
I got a very positive attitude about this. ---
**Author:** ![Cyros](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a698b9/32.png) [@Cyros](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cyros)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2015, 9:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dwayne-johnson-aka-the-rock-to-star-in-big-trouble-in-little-china-remake/721448/56 "2015-06-03T09:57:14Z")
> [@dropzone](#): > > I thought Egg Shen was the protagonist. ☹ All I know is that Victor Wong was a good Egg. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2015, 10:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dwayne-johnson-aka-the-rock-to-star-in-big-trouble-in-little-china-remake/721448/57 "2015-06-03T10:24:24Z")
> [@muldoonthief](#): > > > [@](#): > > > > Ninja’d > > Wrong country. What the hell does that mean? Huh? China is here, I don’t even know what the hell that means. All I know is, this Lo Pan character comes out of thin air in the middle of a goddamn alley while his buddies are flying around on wires cutting everybody to shreds, and he just stands there waiting for me to drive my truck straight through him. ---
**Author:** ![muldoonthief](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muldoonthief/32/3188_2.png) [@muldoonthief](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/muldoonthief)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2015, 11:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dwayne-johnson-aka-the-rock-to-star-in-big-trouble-in-little-china-remake/721448/58 "2015-06-03T11:49:45Z")
> [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](#): > > What the hell does that mean? Huh? China is here, I don’t even know what the hell that means. All I know is, this Lo Pan character comes out of thin air in the middle of a goddamn alley while his buddies are flying around on wires cutting everybody to shreds, and he just stands there waiting for me to drive my truck straight through him. A lot of Chinese hear these stories when we’re kids, then we grow up and pretend we don’t believe them. ---
**Author:** ![not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/not_what_you_d_expect/32/3246_2.png) [@not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/not_what_you_d_expect)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2015, 12:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dwayne-johnson-aka-the-rock-to-star-in-big-trouble-in-little-china-remake/721448/59 "2015-06-03T12:43:50Z")
I’m mostly okay with remakes. Whether they turn out well or not doesn’t really affect my love for the original. I think Dwayne can pull it off. His size can be explained by his truck driving job if loading, unloading product is part of his job. And he can do comedy, as we’ve seen in prior films, in particular, The Rundown. I wonder who they will choose for the two female leads. The original actresses were terrific. ---
**Author:** ![Sage\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sage_rat/32/399_2.png) [@Sage\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sage_Rat)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2015, 1:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dwayne-johnson-aka-the-rock-to-star-in-big-trouble-in-little-china-remake/721448/60 "2015-06-03T13:46:09Z")
> [@not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](#): > > I wonder who they will choose for the two female leads. The original actresses were terrific. Though I hear that it can take centuries to find a good Chinese girl with green eyes, so I don’t envy the producers that task. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dwayne-johnson-aka-the-rock-to-star-in-big-trouble-in-little-china-remake/721448.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dwayne-johnson-aka-the-rock-to-star-in-big-trouble-in-little-china-remake/721448.md?page=4)