Kurt Russell on Big Trouble In Little China remake: Nothing is too precious

Kurt Russell – yep, Jack Burton himself – has said that no film is ‘too precious’ to be remade. As long as its being properly.

The star was discussing the rumours that barmy 80s fantasy actioner ‘Big Trouble In Little China’, in which he played the bumbling hero.

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Dwayne Johnson is said to be in talks for the lead, Russell’s ‘Fast & Furious 8’ co-star, but he said that the pair had not discussed the possibility.

Of the project, however, he took something of a laissez-faire stance, considering how loved the original movie is.

“I don’t think there’s anything too precious to make a remake of. However, you have to have a pretty good reason for making it,” said Russell.

“I think there’s a lot more of a challenge on the director than on the actor. There was a lot of innovation here. There was a lot of firsts, and again, all John Carpenter.”

Russell made the comments following a screening of the movie to celebrate 30 years since its release at Beyond Fest in Los Angeles, and stuck around for a Q&A afterwards, moderated by ‘Guardians of the Galaxy’ director James Gunn.

He went on to discuss how the oddball movie did not sit right at all with Fox, the studio that made it.

“It was just too cool for school. It was literally terminally hip,” said Russell. “It’s just great to see it, because, man, they did not get it.”

As for how the movie works today, with its portrayal of the racial divide, he added: “It was a tribute to it! It was John bringing it to America.

“I always saw Wang sort of as the lead. And I thought that could be fun, because then we could have the guy who’s usually the sidekick really doing all the things that the lead does, but what really makes it fun is that the lead doesn’t know that.”

The movie, which is now a bona fide cult classic, was a disastrous flop back in 1986.

Costing Fox $20 million, John Carpenter’s movie bought in just $11.1 million, overshadowed as it was by the release of James Cameron’s ‘Aliens’.