kung fu kid stars

The Associated Press has confirmed that the Will Smith-produced remake/re-imagining of The Karate Kid has officially been retitled The Kung-Fu Kid.  The new title should qualm upset fans of the original, and actually makes a whole load more of sense considering the story is based around Kung Fu and not Karate.

Jaden Smith plays Dre, a skateboarding video game buff who is forced to move to China after his single mother (Taraji P. Henson) is forced to transfer to the China for work. Of course, unable to speak Chinese, Dre finds it hard to settle in, and gets beat up by the local bully. Jackie Chan plays Mr. Han, a maintenance man who spots Dre’s black-eye and offers to teach him both martial arts and Chinese, so he can defend against the students of Li Quan Ha’s Fighting dragon school of Kung-Fu.

Directed by Harald Zwart (The Pink Panther 2) and written by Chris Murphy and Steven Conrad (The Pursuit of Happyness). Filming on the remake has begun this weekend in Beijing, and is expected to last three months. An official start-up ceremony took place on July 11th, which you can watch here. Thanks to /Film reader Lazar for the tip.

  • helper
    Allow me to sum up every comment thats going to follow..." they can call it whatever they want its still gonna suck(or any other variation/synonym for the word suck).
  • Gelman
    It would be fun to watch only if we get to see him knocked out at least 3 or 4 times. I think I'll be rooting for his opponents.
  • You are cheering to see a child to get hurt, sounds like you are doing that because of his skin color. What a dumb ass creepy loser you are. I wish I could see you get knocked out 5 or 6 times.
  • putiputi
    Ok let me give everyone a preview of the upcoming comments, mostly posted by “Gut Check”. Gutcheck seems to enjoy surfing the next and finding places that he can call people losers and tell them to go and cry in a corner for expressing their opinion. He also loves to stress he is white and that everyone is a raciest. The most interesting comment made was the last one, where he tells someone from England that most Americans are stupid and that we use the term Ghetto improperly. You say that you are the smart American, I knew of the ghetto and the origins in 7th grade. I am also intelligent enough to understand that it had a second definition a slang one. Let me guess in the 80s when someone said “That’s BAD” you really thought it was bad…. LOL and you are the smart American. Appreciate your country that had given you this freedom and the soldiers that die to protect it. Complain all you want but don’t cater to someone from another country that is jealous of what we have. Have a little pride. That is actually the most funny part, if you don’t love your country then go somewhere else, take the time you LOSER and pack your stuff up and move.. continue your crying somewhere south of the boarder!!
  • Name
    Why would it suck? you never seen it. why because theres no white folks? Im tired of looking at yall fools. Yall make me sick
  • lol
    Haha the original character wasnt a white guy actually the only white people in the movie were the bad guys lol shows you really either didnt watch the movie or just dont pay attention.
    They are going to ruin a great classic! period!
  • ted
    wtf??the karate kid wasnt white?lmao then what the fuck was he?amerindian lmao
  • Fan
    hey get fuck man you homo sexulay it going to be good the remake i watch the classic one with Pat in it was popolare in the pass know about time them make a remake

    My first time i saw karate kid was a compal of mouths ago and i wasnt born when it first release
  • gut_check
    Its good to see your passion, just please learn how to spell, or post when you aren't under the influence.
  • putiputi
    Gutcheck has taken the time to comment on almost everyones reply calling them a loser and telling them to go cry. You keep saying because the title is different that no one should be bothered because it is not the same movie, but in the same breath you call it a remake….. so which is it? When things are done that may offend someone that is White and they express it, we are called racist, if someone of color is offended then all of the white people involved are either called racist or insensitive.
  • STFU and speaking of suck, tell your mom to wear knee pads and she won't get the rug burns.
  • Mark..."STFU"
    Mark STFU
  • okay much better, but I still think it's sad that Hollywood can't come up with any original stories or ideas.
  • Gelman
    Now we have all these to look forward to: "The Judo Kid"; "The Taekwondo Kid"; the "The Jiu-Jitsu Kid"; and "The Mixed Martial Arts Kid."
  • Sketch
    The MMA Kid would be fun to watch simply because it would be brutal.
  • Chicaga
    "The Mixed Martial Arts Kid" a.k.a Never Back Down.
  • gut_check
    If you feel you can do something better than complain like a loser, then do it or cry yourself to sleep like normal. lol
  • Feuer
    And to sum up the audio to any other comment, *groan*. Ugh this is is looking like it will be even worse than I thought it would be, yikes.
  • tommygun101
    Hollywood, please stop ruining my childhood.
  • gut_check
    Hollywood, thanks for making obsessed losers cry. Hey dumbass, this doesn't erase the original movie off the face of the earth, and it has a completely different name. How did you feel about "The next karate kid"? Did you cry yourself to sleep? LOOOSSSEERRR!
  • bnitro
    Jackie Chan Nooooooo!
  • optimusprime
    not really interested in this movie
  • Mark
    Good for you. Now, STFU
  • The_Kid
    With the name title, I don't even consider it a remake or whatever, now it's just some crappy movie that ripped off of the karate kid.
  • Mark
    American film makers rip off movies from other countries all the time, so STFU.
  • dagreenman18
    Now that it has a name change, can we stop saying it's related to The Karate Kid. Let it be it's own shitty movie and never speak of it again.
  • Mark
    I agree with the first sentence, but as far as the second sentence "STFU".
  • osden
    Such ego on display:
    Smiths - "Well the first movie was good, but it didn't have one of us in it...let's fix that and make it waaay better. You know, because one of us will be on the screen. America loves us so much, we *owe* it to them"

    The movie's premise - "Only an American can possibly truly understand and nurture the beauty of other cultures...especially if it involves fighting" (See the Last Samurai, Bloodsport, etc)
  • SomeGuy
    A panel of experts convened at The Hague last year, and sequestered themselves in a convention room for 17 weeks. After day upon day of furious, vigorous debate and a devastatingly cunning yet impressively polite treatise by the English representatives, the experts agreed on a unified international verdict: Bloodsport is the best movie ever made.
  • u r not a tanaka
    OK, USA!
  • Mark
    STFU
  • Different name, different characters, kinda different story...

    I thought in a remake, it was supposed to be the same movie but with younger actors and a bigger budget.

    Anyways, I'm glad that they don't have Mr. Miagi in it, it just wouldn't work with anybody else playing him...
  • gut_check
    Yes they weren't going to make the movie to run the exact route as the original or they would have used the same name. I'm glad they didn't do that, Karate Kid is outdated, but people are crying because it is a remake. I call it an evolution! Lets let the losers cry!
  • TheDev
    Why would you enroll in a all kung-fu school when you just moved to a brand new country, not knowing anything of kung-fu or the language... ?
  • STFU
  • Rockie
    hatred
  • Very exciting I'm sure for Jaden to film a remake of a great movie. It brings back memories of the swan kick.
  • gut_check
    It is exciting, and i'm glad there will be a difference in the movie.
  • chingon
    scientology FTW
  • maximus2978
    hell no..they dont need to remake this movie. All they are going to so is fuck it up
  • Mark
    STFU maxipunk2978
  • "STFUSTFUSTFU" Mark
    STFU "STFU" Mark LOL
  • MortenKVebjornsen
    This has I very little faith in. Take a director with no credentials, a 10 year old African-American. A sell-out of an actor with some good credentials & an Americanized Hong Kong guy & you end up with a rip off of an Academy Award (Copyright sign) winning film, but this has a bad title & is flopping already - In shorty words: The Kung-Fu Kid
  • gut_check
    Oh wow you are not only a loser but a racist loser. A sell out actor? You don't know that guy, nice mention of race, you have a dim future, its funny to see how worked up over a film. lol Stop crying!
  • will smith is too powerful, we cant stop him now
  • Ian
    That scrawny undersized bag of bones is going to beat up the bad guys? In your dreams.
  • gut_check
    Hahaha wow isn't it awesome how someone that is possibly a grown up can talk about a child. The character in the original was skin and bones, the girl in the next karate kid had more muscle. Go cry yourself to sleep.
  • Captain Awesome
    It's gone suck to blow!
  • Why did your mom teach you those words knowing that you would use them incorrectly? Just because you caught her being a slut, doesn't mean she had to teach you these words. Thats sick, but your relationship has always been kind of creepy. I figured you were a loser when you considered yourself awesome. lol
  • Mark
    STFU gut check
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