The Karate Kid remake

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November 10, 2008


Columbia Pictures is back in the dojo with a new version of the 1984 hit "The Karate Kid," which has been refashioned as a star vehicle for Jaden Smith.

The film will be produced by Jerry Weintraub (who launched the original franchise) and Overbrook Entertainment's James Lassiter, Will Smith and Ken Stovitz. Will Smith, who is the 10-year-old actor's father, co-starred alongside Jaden in his feature debut, "The Pursuit of Happyness," which Overbrook and Escape Artists produced for Columbia.

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.

China Film Group Corp. will co-produce in China.

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

Columbia presidents Doug Belgrad and Matt Tolmach said they had been trying to find a way to bring back the series, which began with three films that featured Ralph Macchio and Pat Morita.

A subsequent film launched the career of Hilary Swank.

[focker]

WTF, no one can replace Ralph Macchio and Pat Morita:D. Sweep the leg:D

[monster123]

I cant stand will smiths son i think this will be just another shitty remake.

[Despare]

WTF, no one can replace Ralph Macchio and Pat Morita:D. Sweep the leg:D

Wasn't sweeping the leg bad? I thought Kreese made him do that...

[focker]

Wasn't sweeping the leg bad? I thought Kreese made him do that...

I know it was bad, it was just one of my favorite lines in the movie

[urgeok2]

this time ... instead of pat morita ... will jr will receive instruction from the Wu Tang Clan

[Despare]

this time ... instead of pat morita ... will jr will receive instruction from the Wu Tang Clan

Samuel L. Jackson (actually, I'm betting the aging Jackie Chan...)

[Vodstok]

if the villains are still white guys then the movie will end after they kick his ass the first time and the whole group is brought up on charges of comitting a hate crime.

At which point they will say skin color has nothing to do with it, and the court will concede that since a black man can make it to president in America, maybe the whole "hate crime" thing is now silly and outdated.

[urgeok2]

Samuel L. Jackson


i'm getting sick and tired off all the motherfucking dirt on my motherfucking ride !

wax on wax off motherfucker !!

[urgeok2]

...maybe the whole "hate crime" thing is now silly and outdated.


unfortunately - no it isnt..

[ferretchucker]

Jeez, what is it with all these threads connecting Will Smith to new films. Can't Will take a break?!

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Jackie Chan will play the wise kung-fu master in a Hollywood-Chinese remake of the 1984 hit "The Karate Kid" that kicked off filming in the Chinese capital at the weekend, a movie company publicist said Monday.

Chan's young disciple in "Kung Fu Kid" will be played by Jaden Smith, the son of Hollywood superstars Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith, China Film Group spokesman Weng Li told The Associated Press in a phone interview.

In "The Karate Kid," Pat Morita plays the iconic building handyman Mr. Miyagi who trains one of his young tenants, portrayed by Ralph Macchio, into an accomplished fighter.

The co-production between the state-run China Film Group and Columbia Pictures started shooting Saturday in Beijing, Weng said.

"Kung Fu Kid" is being directed by Harald Zwart, who also directed "One Night at McCool's" and "The Pink Panther 2," Solon So, the chief executive of Chan's company, JC Group, told the AP.

Chan and Smith, along with Smith's parents and sister Willow, attended a traditional Chinese ceremony to mark the start of the shoot Saturday. Photos on China Film Group's movie news Web site show the Smith family and Chan holding incense sticks.

Ken Stovitz, one of Will Smith's partners in the production company Overbrook Entertainment, said at the ceremony Saturday that "Kung Fu Kid" will be set in modern-day Beijing. China Film Group chairman Han Sanping said shooting will last three months.

Chan juggles careers in Hollywood and Chinese-language films. The veteran 55-year-old Hong Kong action star will be seen in the upcoming the Hollywood action comedy "The Spy Next Door," about an undercover Chinese spy whose cover is blown, and the Chinese production, "Big Soldier," about the friendship between two soldiers set in China's ancient Qin dynasty.

Jaden Smith co-starred with his father in the 2006 movie "The Pursuit of Happyness" and appeared in the 2008 Keanu Reeves sci-fi movie "The Day the Earth Stood Still."