Jaden Smith to Remake "The Karate Kid"
Will Smith’s son, Jaden James, is going to be doing a remake of "The Karate Kid." Can’t recall this movie? This is where an older instructor comes across a kid vandalizing his vehicles in his junk yard and assigns him to fix up his yard. Course while doing it he realizes the kid was being picked on and instructs him how to fight. This "kid" becomes The Karate Kid and takes on the bandits that beat the tar out of him.
Variety states:
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. [...]
The younger Smith, who next stars in “The Day the Earth Stood Still,” is a martial arts practitioner.
Looks like the 80s are back and we are digging up the past. What are some shows you wished stayed dead and which would you like to revive?
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