The Karate Kid returns!.. only ..slightly..a lot.. different

[Kingdom]

Jaden Smith is the Next Karate Kid
Source: Variety
November 11, 2008


Columbia Pictures has refashioned its new version of the 1984 hit The Karate Kid as a star vehicle for Jaden Smith, reports Variety.

The film will be produced by Jerry Weintraub (who launched the original franchise) and Overbrook Entertainment's James Lassiter, Jaden's father Will Smith and Ken Stovitz.

The script is being written by Chris Murphy, and the film will shoot next year in Beijing and other cities. While the new film will be set in that exotic locale, it will borrow elements of the original plot, wherein a bullied youth learns to stand up for himself with the help of an eccentric mentor.

The younger Smith, who next stars in The Day the Earth Stood Still, is a martial arts practitioner

Oh.. lord.
[shakes head in disbelief]

[Shadow29]

Seriously?

[DiamondDave]

How can you have a Karate Kid movie without Pat Morita...?

instant BUST

[DirtyKash]

Columbia Pictures has refashioned its new version of the 1984 hit The Karate Kid as a star vehicle for Jaden Smith, reports Variety.

Will Smith's son as The Karate Kid?



It should just be a sequel, not a remake.

In any case. Franchise. Ruined.

[DirtyKash]

He's also in line to star as Sideshow Bob in the next live action Simpsons Movie.

[missionhockey21]

Seriously, the kid does not look the part AT ALL.

Jackie Chan as Miyagi, I am calling it.

[browntown653]

Worst.
Idea.
Ever.

[DiamondDave]

Hmmm... Ralph Macchio as "Daniel-san" returning to be mentor?

hmmmmmm

[DirtyKash]

Less than a week until the premiere of the new Karate Kid, with Jackie Chan in the role of Mister Miyagi. Who's pumped up?

[DirtyKash]

Jackie Chan as Miyagi, I am calling it.

Damn.

[Kingdom]

Your mom is pumped up.

[DirtyKash]

'Karate Kid' sequel: 'We've been talking about it for weeks.'
Jun 16 2010
01:48 PM ET

When your $40 million movie bows to $56 million, of course you’re going to start thinking about how to make a sequel. And Sony Pictures is indeed putting things into place. The studio confirmed yesterday that plans to reunite Jaden Smith with his star-making role as Dre Parker have been in the works for weeks. No writers have yet been hired, but the studio’s production president Doug Belgrad said, “We’ve been talking about it for weeks already. We didn’t want to jinx anything but we knew we had a playable movie and we were pretty excited about it. So we’re already kicking ideas around."

Director Harald Zwart added, “I would absolutely love to do a sequel. I think working with those guys was the best part of my career. So yeah, if they want me, I would love to do it again.”

No word on ideas yet for the sequel, or even if the Smith clan would return to China for number two. But it’s clear we have not seen the last of Dre Parker. —Reporting by Chris Nashawaty

Sequel of the remake might be in the works!