Kung Fu Kid

Filming for the Karate Kid remake is underway in Hong Kong but not without controversy. Since the film was announced last year numerous movie sites and Karate Kid fansites have protested against Hollywoods desire to rewrite history by ruining all our favourite movies from our childhood. Fearing a major backlash on release in the states and possibly the same in Japan and Hong Kong due to the casting of Jackie Chan as karate master Mr Miyagi the producers have renamed the film ‘Kung Fu Kid’. It must’ve taken them ages to come up with that.

What’s annoying is that I would gladly watch a Jackie Chan film which revolved around similar ideas to Karate Kid its just now I know this is a remake I feel negative towards the project. Kung fu films constantly borrow from each other and Karate Kid is hardly a groundbreaking story borrowing ideas and scenes largely from The Prodigal Son. The problem is martial arts fans are already so sick of watching bad remakes of classic films like Fist of Fury, Shogun Assasin and Prodigal Son that casting a favourite like Chan just adds insult to injury.

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Posted: August 11th, 2009 under Film.