Whole 'nother thang from Mr. Miyagi's Karate Kid.
]]>As for Mr. Myagi, how about making him a true bad ass. Ken Watanabe would be perfect. He was the dude that played the lead Samurai in the Last Samurai, he played the head monk in Batman Begins, and the General in Letters From Iwo Jima.
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0913822/
The real dilema for me is, who in the hell plays John Kreese???
It's bad enough that no-talent Jada pops up every now and then, but now it increasingly seems that he wants America to studiously ignore his children, too. Stop, Will! Just...stop.
I don't get it. This bid to get them working and make them stars seems neither organic nor healthy for those kids.
As for 'The Last Dragon' and Samuel L. Jackson, well, why is Hollywood trying to rape my childhood? Yeah, yeah, I know it's not a good movie to begin with, but *still.*
]]>Not a good movie to begin with????
I don't even know how to respond to that....
...maybe I do:
]]>http://www.pattonoswalt.com/index.cfm?page=spores&show=karatekid
The "true" story of Johnny Lawrence
]]>Even though I think a Karate Kid remake is just proof that Hollywood is the place good ideas go to die and bad ideas (not the first movie, the remake and all the fucking sequels) get reborn like characters from Chinese mythology, I second the casting of Ken Watanabe. Bonus points if we get a scene with him shirtless.
(If I were still a Pop Culture doctorate wannabe, I'd get a nice little essay about cultural appropriation as it addresses the original movie and the remake out of this.)
]]>Shemar Moore is perfect as Bruce LeRoy. Busta, I think, already parodied Sho Nuff in one of his videos a few years ago. "Dangerous," maybe? Someone refresh my memory.
The real question is who would reprise lovely Vanity's role as Laura Charles? Beyonce, maybe?
]]>Word. TNC. Busta was born to play Sho-Nuff.
]]>yeah, Busta did it in the Dangerous video...pure hilarity!
the real question should be, why can't Hollywood leave well enough alone (or find some original scripts/stories)...what's next...a Wild Style remake??....now I remember why I don't go to the movies....
]]>Fun? Yes. Good? Not really.
@blackink Shemar Moore's not quite right for Bruce Leroy. It may have to be an unknown. I fear the casting of Omarion or someone of that ilk.
For Laura, maybe Meagan Good? Definitely not Beyonce.
]]>I wasn't really saying it was deserving an Oscar or anything, I saw an opportunity to post a clip of Sho-Nuff...I took it.
]]>Can we also find out how Brad Wesley made his hundred-thousands???
]]>The real question is how this all will affect Itunes sales of El Debarge's "Rythym of the Night."
Stacy- your script sounds awesome. Make sure you answer how a bouncer somehow acquires national fame that preceeds his arrival. And bonus points for a side-plot involving how Jeff Healey's character went blind.
]]>Tired of these stale faces.
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