variety.com:

>Jaden Smith set for 'Karate Kid' redo

Columbia taps Chris Murphy to write script
By MICHAEL FLEMING

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.
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Is nothing sacred! I'm going to sweep Will Smith's leg if this disgraces the memory of Mr Miyagi in any way.

lol

Will please leave it alone!!!!!

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lame ass retread hollywood bastards. if its the 80s anymore and theres no mr miyagi around this shit is pointless

They're usually either pretty good, or easy to ignore.

But this one... is neither. And slowly but surely, I'm feeling pissed about it.

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but he's 10?!?!?!?!?!!?

is he going to be beat up by other 10 year olds? or is he going to be beating up kids in their late-teens?

Pre-teen fighters = fromage.

possibly but with CGI you don't see the wires

He's a 10 year old kid in China who get bullied and learns karate from an older guy. I think they're just attaching the name to stir up publicity. This sounds about as similar as any other movie involving karate. Might as well be a Sidekicks remake.

I think she was on a short-lived show on Fox called The Tick too.

That post was great.

http://defamer.com/5083304/nicolas-cage-in-yellowface-and-other-mr-miyagi-suggestions-for-the-karate-kid-remake


Pretty funny. Jackie Chan is the easy choice, but I really like the JCVD idea.

First Kato and now Miyagi?

I really didn't think it would be that big of a deal.

>I really didn't think it would be that big of a deal.

It's not. It's pretty easy to ignore. Much like I did the original.

someone sweep his leg.

out there that could be remade. Not worth gettin pissed about this one.

Not sure what the problem with Jaden is. I mean, they already killed the franchise with The Next Karate Kid so it's not like he's walking onto hallowed grounds here.

But hiring a guy who never wrote a film before and is the video assist guy seems odd. Just shows you that if you hang around people in charge and make a good impression, you can get a gig.

And that speaks to the fact he's not even a teenager, rather than his acting ability. Making this movie with a pre-teen removes whatever "edge" the original might have had and turns it into "3 Ninjas," as mentioned above.

You can make almost the exact same movie with Jaden. And it might make more sense with a younger kid dealing with anger issues and people actually caring about a karate competition.

They tried to make a modern Karate Kid for high schoolers (Never Back Down) and that shit barely made its production budget back.

...a movie starring a cute 10-year-old turns this into a cartoon, whereas the original made an effort to make all the characters semi-interesting.

>...a movie starring a cute 10-year-old turns this into a
>cartoon, whereas the original made an effort to make all the
>characters semi-interesting.

I don't agree with the premise that casting a ten year old means the film has to be cartoonish and can't be interesting.

...any kid character (or even adult) was actually interesting? 'Cause I'm not thinking of any in the last decade or so.

Back when kid's action movies were actual quality. It's been a while but I think they have a shot at doing a good job with Karate Kid.

Then again, this is why I question having a first time writer do it. You can make a quality kid actioner with Jaden. Whether the producers pull it off is a different question.

I'm just not going to go crazy a) over a cheesy film being a different kind of cheese or b) dismissing any hopes of the film being good because Jaden is cast in it.

remove it from the 1980s, the karate fad, remove it from an era where putting a Japanese vet on-screen was really, truly, ground-breaking, and having a hispanic character fall in love with Elizabeth Shue was just something we'd never seen before.

THEN

remove it from the cringe-worthy Cobra Kai, and all the bad cliches, and cheesy, over-baked emotionally manipulative '80s rock score, and at the same moment putting Miyagi on-screen and then having him, in the climactic scene, reach back to some mumbo-jumbo Other-esque Japanese voodooism or whatever it is he does.

Maaaaaan...

Sure -- it's a great, heart-warming, widely appealing story that underpins it, but the elements which make the original GREAT are truly dependent on the 1980s context. In particular making Miyagi, the fucking GROUNDBREAKING character, a central part of the film.

I was close with a Japanese-American WWII vet growing up, who got taken out of the service and put into internment camps, and man ... unless they really break some ground on the new Miyagi like that, this shit is going to be trash.

not hispanic...


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What's next? A Back to the Future remake? I would go into an Incredible Hulk type frenzy if I ever heard about that.

or emile.

nothing is sacred

disgusting news

keith olbermann needs to do a special comment on this

First OLDBOY with Smith and Speilberg...now this wackness!!!

I'm beginning to miss Will Smith...the M.C.

Keep your kids out of hollywood fam.

Come on Will, you setting your kid up for years of counseling

It's really Pathetic how the lack of creativity and ideas in Hollywood is leading to this shit

http://board.okayplayer.com/okp.php?az=show_topic&forum=6&topic_id=375158&mesg_id=375158&listing_type=search

and why is this post not archived?

in Hollywood

These productions are considered as properties by the big conglomerates that own them

As such, they are considered assets that can be exploited, with the hope that they make enough bread that they corporations can churn out sequel after sequel, because they aren't concerned about creativity, or a lack thereof, they're concerned about getting a nice return on their investment

It sucks, and I wholeheartedly agree that it sucks, but this is the way the game is as of now... at least on the major studio side...
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no one will care that you/we are mad. kids will want to see it and their parents will take them. 2 for 1 tix=$$$$$.

if i ever get back into moviemaking, i might just stick to kidflicks.

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regardless of how much I hate the rest of it

OK it was for producing a short film but still, if they can call Affleck an Academy Award winner...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uFlQNtL8F9s

so i'll just say good day and leave it at that.

for now.

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Spoiled brat reminds me of Romeo. This level of nepotism has no class and is an open disrespect for audiences. I'll start the backlash myself if I must. Sick of this Lil Romeo (expletive)!

why the fuck are they remaking EITHER of these?

and can actually update it with cool special effects and whatnot.

karate kid, there is just NO reason for a remake.

to be one of the worst films of all time

which would mean that you suck.

or top 3 at least

i own it on vhs and dvd

and yeah remaking KK is a travesty.

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i could give a fuck, personally....it's just another movie wit great moments, but i haven't watched or thought about watching this movie in about 20 yrs 9seems like)