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369:, where they find a funeral procession that erupts into a battle between the Chang Sing and Wing Kong, two ancient Chinese warrior societies. When "The Three Storms" – Thunder, Rain, and Lightning, warriors with weather-themed powers – appear, slaughtering the Chang Sing, Jack attempts to gun his big-rig through the crowd, but runs over David Lo Pan, a man directing the Three Storms. Horrified, Jack exits his truck, but finds Lo Pan unhurt and glowing with magic. Wang hurriedly guides Jack through the alleys; they escape, but Jack's truck is stolen. 683:– Carpenter was impressed by Richter's scripting of "an action/adventure/comedy/mystery/ghost story/monster movie" and signed onboard. Carpenter made his own additions to Richter's rewrites, which included strengthening the Gracie Law role by linking her directly to Chinatown, removing a few action sequences due to budgetary restrictions, and adjusting material that could offend Chinese Americans. Richter, who had befriended Carpenter while the two were attending 1519: 576:, the script took place in the 1880s: friends cowboy Wiley Prescott and Chinese railroad worker Sun are set to meet Sun's fiancée Lotus as she arrives to San Francisco, but are opposed by sorcerer Lo Pan who captures Sun's fiancée and separates Prescott from his horse as the story progresses into a mystical realm. They submitted the script to TAFT Entertainment Pictures executive producers 1632:, introducing the archetype of a straw hat–wearing monk able to control lightning with his hands to non-Asian audiences (in traditional Chinese and Japanese culture, the lightning god has an appearance more similar to that of a traditional Asian creature). Additionally, the character David Lo Pan has been credited as the original inspiration for the soul-stealing Mortal Kombat villain 1026:), and the explosive death of Thunder. One of the most difficult effects was the "Guardian", a floating creature dotted with eyeballs that scouts for Lo Pan. Also designed by Screaming Mad George, this complex effect took approximately 60 artists and cost over $ 100,000 to create due to its many points of articulation — far more complex than the similar character 887:. mixing a leading-man archetype with comic-relief behavior: "I've never played a hero who has so many faults. Jack is and isn't the hero. He falls on his ass as much as he comes through. He thinks he knows how to handle situations and then gets into situations he can't handle but somehow blunders his way through anyhow." Russell took inspiration from 42: 918:: "I'm not screaming for help the whole time. I think the humor comes out of the situations and my relationship with Jack Burton. I’m the brains and he's the brawn". Carpenter liked how Cattrall had a "comedic sense" yet could be serious, standing up for her acting abilities against studio pressure to cast a "rock star" as the love interest. 1195:, widely known in Hollywood for his brutally honest critiques, praised the film, writing that it had "some of the funniest lines spoken by any actor this year to produce a cheerfully blathering live-action cartoon that will give you release from the real pressures of your basically dreary lives." In his review for 1504:
deck-building card game. It is a semi-cooperative game for 2–5 players using the deck-building mechanic in which players purchase cards from a central pool to work together against the "villain" deck. The cards feature original artwork based on characters from the movie. It comes with 400 cards and a
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Truck driver Jack Burton wins a bet with his friend Wang Chi. To make sure he follows through on payment, Jack accompanies him to the airport to pick up Wang's Chinese fiancée Miao Yin, where a Chinese-American street gang, the Lords of Death, tries to kidnap another Chinese girl. She is being met by
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Though Carpenter found Edlund professional and straightforward to work with, he had concerns during production about the scale of Boss Film's operation; the director would notice instances where they called to cut down on effects due to budget or capability, only for such concerns to recede when the
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setting of the screenplay led to objections from producers; Monash remarked that "the problems came largely from the fact it was set in turn-of-the-century San Francisco." Because Goldman and Weinstein were unwilling to update their story to a modern setting, and from the producer's desire to bring
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Wang and Jack regroup with the Chang Sing and Egg Shen, and enter a cavern to return to Lo Pan's headquarters. Egg pours the group a potent potion. They interrupt the wedding, and start a battle. Wang kills Rain in a sword duel, while Jack and Gracie chase Lo Pan, who has regained his corporeal form
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Wang takes Jack to his restaurant, where they meet with Gracie, her journalist friend Margo, Wang's friend Eddie Lee, and magician Egg Shen, a local authority on mysticism and Lo Pan. They explain to Jack (who only wants his truck back) the ancient knowledge and sorcery the Chinese brought with them
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and the duo had developed a longstanding friendship. Russell was initially unsure if he could find an interesting way to play Burton, but valued working with Carpenter. After discussions with the director and rereading the script, he saw the movie as a opportunity to play a type of action hero that
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gave the DVD a "B+" rating and wrote, "The highlight of this two disc set – which also features deleted scenes, an extended ending, trailers, and a 1986 featurette – is the pitch perfect Russell and Carpenter commentary, which delves into Fox's marketing mishaps, Chinese history, and how Russell's
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he is a leading man. According to Carpenter, the studio "didn't get it" and made him write something that would explain the character of Jack Burton. Carpenter came up with a prologue scene where Egg Shen reassures the audience (vis-à-vis a lawyer character) that "Jack Burton is a man of courage."
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The group celebrates in the restaurant; Wang and Miao Yin prepare to marry, while Eddie pairs with Margo. With his old enemy defeated, Egg takes a long overdue vacation. Gracie offers to join Jack, but he leaves alone. Unbeknownst to him, the Wild-Man survived the battle and has stowed away on his
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in Los Angeles. Production designer John Lloyd designed the elaborate underground sets and recreated Chinatown with three-story buildings, roads, streetlights, sewers and so on. This was necessary for the staging of complicated special effects and kung fu fight sequences that would have been very
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were hired as screenwriters, with Johnson planned to star as Burton. Though Johnson expressed interest in having the original director involved in the film, Carpenter remained "ambivalent" about a remake and did not meet with Johnson. By 2018, Seven Bucks was instead developing the film to be a
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was Boss Film's first project for Fox he viewed the production as an opportunity to secure further work from the studio. Richter's script included many fantastical creatures and settings, though many were only loosely defined and left up to Boss Film to design the ultimate appearance of.
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After the commercial and critical failure of the film, Carpenter became very disillusioned with Hollywood and became an independent filmmaker. He said in an interview, "The experience was the reason I stopped making movies for the Hollywood studios. I won't work for them again. I think
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Thunder – who had been distracted with Wang – reappears, and, enraged at finding Lo Pan dead, swells up and explodes. Jack, Wang, Gracie, and Miao Yin are cornered by Lightning in a corridor, who triggers a collapse. Egg rescues them with a rope and kills Lightning by dropping a
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sequel rather than a remake. In a 2019 interview, screenwriter Stentz explained that his script had been for a remake and he had not been contacted about the film's revised concept; he was unaware of any new scripts being commissioned and also suspected that the then-recent
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Kurt Russell lifted weights and began running two months before production began to prepare for the physical demands of principal photography. In addition, Carpenter and his cast and crew did a week's rehearsals that mainly involved choreographing the martial arts scenes.
631:) was brought in to extensively rewrite the script. Richter modernized the setting to avoid distancing audiences; though basic elements of the story were retained, such as Lo Pan, Richter rewrote the story "nearly from scratch". In particular, he approached the story as a 927:, released 1985, had drawn much controversy for its depiction of Chinese-Americans. Carpenter and producers met with community leaders to assuage concerns about the writing of the movie and hired a casting director who represented many Chinese and Asian-American actors. 948:
and could be portrayed as Chinese yet still "a regular, American guy" rather than "foreign" or a punchline as many of Dun's previous roles had made him feel. The martial arts sequences were not hard for Dun, who had "dabbled" in training as a kid and performed in
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Jack and Wang track down the front business used by Lo Pan and impersonate telephone repairmen to gain access, but are quickly subdued by Rain. After being tied up and beaten by Thunder, they meet Lo Pan – however, he now appears as a crippled old man.
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season 2 episode "Big Trouble in Little Norrisville," the titular place is a reference to Little Chinatown (the title of the episode also references the film). James Hong (who played Lo Pan) also provides a guest voice role as the Shopkeeper.
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wrote, "special effects don't mean much unless we care about the characters who are surrounded by them, and in this movie the characters often seem to exist only to fill up the foregrounds," and felt that it was "straight out of the era of
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and David Z. Weinstein. Goldman had been inspired by a new wave of martial arts films that had "all sorts of weird actions and special effects, shot against this background of Oriental mysticism and modern sensibilities", such as
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Richter's script was shopped around to directors by the studio. Fox wanted to deny Goldman and Weinstein writing credit, and eliminated their names from press releases in favor of solely crediting Richter. In March 1986, the
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company secured additional work (a pattern of behavior he had noticed with many effects shops). Edlund was surprised by these remarks, reflecting that despite limited preparation time the studio had no major difficulties on
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In this movie, we've done a reverse. I'm the traditional leading character but I'm also the guy who slips on a banana peel. Dennis Dun, our sidekick as it were, carries the story as far as the traditional leading man stuff.
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Despite receiving generally positive reviews, the film was a commercial failure, grossing $ 11.1 million in North America, below its estimated $ 19 to $ 25 million budget. This left Carpenter disillusioned with
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How many adventure pictures dealing with Chinese mysticism have been released by the major studios in the past 20 years? For two of them to come along at the exact same time is more than mere coincidence.
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announced a partnership with Everything Epic and Flipside to create a board game based on the film. It was released in 2018, and is a highly thematic cooperative miniatures board game for 1–4 players.
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and dozens of cables to control its facial expressions. To create the appearance of the Guardian flying freely, two puppets were created — a front and rear view — and it was filmed with a proprietary
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to America. The group devises a plan to infiltrate a brothel, where they believe Miao Yin is held. They break in, but are interrupted by the Storms who kidnap Miao Yin, and take her to Lo Pan.
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It has since enjoyed a resurgence on television and home video, and has received a good deal of retroactive positive press. Some critics and fans considered it one of Carpenter's best movies.
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I really did believe that it was a mistake to try to get a 'double remove' on the audience. You're asking them to go to a period western, get used to all those little eccentric realities, and
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hard to do on location. This forced the filmmaker to shoot the film in 15 weeks with a $ 25 million budget. For the film's many fight scenes Carpenter worked with martial arts choreographer
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is a wonderful film, and I'm very proud of it. But the reception it received, and the reasons for that reception, were too much for me to deal with. I'm too old for that sort of bullshit."
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edition of the film was released on August 4, 2009. It contains the same content as the double-disc DVD release. In 2013, the film was released on Blu-ray Disc in the United Kingdom by
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go one step further into a yet more exotic world. I thought, 'Why bother?' It's a pretty funny planet we live on, so why don't we start there and then go into this strange netherworld.
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of 19th-century San Francisco's Chinatown. The duo combined these interests with a shared fondness for classic westerns to write the first iteration of the screenplay. Entitled
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announced they were working on a comic book series. The comic book is written by Eric Powell and John Carpenter with artwork by Brian Churilla. The series began in June 2014.
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No. 83, and stated that the film was "Amiable nonsense, delivered with panache by fearsome demons and flying swordsmen; and the jokes work. Wayne Crawford should take notes."
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by consuming a few drops of Miao Yin's blood. Wang joins them; Lo Pan attempts to kill Jack with a throwing knife, but he catches it and kills him with a throw to his head.
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Wang tells Jack that Lo Pan needs a green-eyed girl to break an ancient curse, and he intends to sacrifice Miao Yin. Centuries ago, Lo Pan was defeated in battle by Emperor
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s Christmas release. Carpenter was hired by 20th Century Fox because of his reputation for working fast, and the film had a limited preproduction schedule of 10–12 weeks.
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grossed $ 2.7 million in its opening weekend and went on to gross $ 11.1 million in North America, well below its estimated budget of $ 19–25 million, making it a
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A single-disc movie-only DVD version was later released, with the only special features being the Carpenter/Russell commentary and the theatrical trailer.
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on him when he tries to follow. After finding Jack's truck and dealing with the remaining Wing Kong guards, the group escapes back to Wang's restaurant.
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wrote, "In kidding the flavorsome proceedings even as he gets the juice out of them, the director, John Carpenter, is conspicuously with it." Writer
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recaptures Gracie before she escapes. Lo Pan notes that Gracie has green eyes, too, and decides to sacrifice her while making Miao Yin his wife.
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offers dollops of entertainment, but it is so stocked with canny references to other pictures that it suggests a master's thesis that moves."
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as Jack Burton, a cocky, wise-cracking truck driver who gets involved in an ancient battle between Good and Evil when he makes a delivery to
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imitation. But he's not just mimicking these heroes, he is using them to give his own character a broad, satiric edge." Walter Goodman in
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The film's portrayal of the lightning sorcerer/demigod character has been occasionally described as an inspiration for the character of
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Although the early exterior establishing scenes were filmed on location in Chinatown, most of the film was shot on sets built in the
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season 3 episode "Fortune Cookie" features a villain called The Warlock, who bears a resemblance to Lo Pan; he also played by
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released a two-disc "Collector's Edition" Blu-ray of the film in the U.S., which included a bevy of new bonus features.
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was hired to rewrite the script extensively and modernize it. The studio hired Carpenter to direct the film and rushed
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The project was also offered to Richter to direct, due to its perceived similarity to his previous directorial outing
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and influenced his decision to return to independent filmmaking. In later years, the film gained a steady audience on
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it has a score of 53% based on reviews from 15 critics, indicating "mixed or average reviews". Audiences surveyed by
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which protects original writers; Richter would instead receive an "adaptation by" credit for his work on the script.
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On June 14, 2017, Boom! announced a new four-issue limited series, to be published in September 2017, called
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led Fox to fear their movie would lose in a direct competition. To beat the rival production to in theaters,
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in the 1990s Iron Man comic run by John Byrne and John Romita Jr. was modeled in appearance after Lo Pan.
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Carpenter and Russell saw the film as an inverse of traditional scenarios in action films that featured a
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a new perspective to the writing, the original duo were removed from the project while screenwriter/
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Base, Ron (July 1, 1986). "Muscle-Laden Hero Kurt Russell Delivers Big Action and Little Trouble".
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After getting the drop on Thunder, Jack, Wang, and Eddie escape and free women kept in cells. An
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was an up-and-coming star — additionally, Russell had previously been directed by Carpenter in
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led work on many effects, including Lo Pan's old age makeup (a wizened appearance inspired by
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recorded for the DVD release, Carpenter described the film as about a sidekick (Burton) who
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went into production in October 1985 so it could open in July 1986, five months before
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as Wang Chi, Jack's friend and a restaurant owner whose fiancée is kidnapped by Lo Pan.
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as Eddie Lee, a successful businessman and Wang's friend who helps them rescue Gracie.
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as Miao Yin, Wang's fiancée, who was kidnapped by Lo Pan when she arrives in America.
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determined that "written by" credit would go to Goldman and Weinstein, based on the
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features lead singer Ninja reciting some of Jack Burton's dialogue from the film.
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as the opportunity to fulfill a decade-long desire to make his own kung fu movie.
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and featured the storyline and characters from the movie, including a cameo by
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Peter Kwong as Rain, an elemental master and expert martial artist with a sword
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Carpenter initially looked for a major star for the lead role to compete with
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season 2 episode "Big Trouble in Little Sanchez" is a reference to the film.
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as Margo Litzenberger, a reporter who briefly helps the team find Miao Yin.
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as Egg Shen, a sorcerer and old enemy of Lo Pan who also drives a tour bus.
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her friend Gracie Law. After Jack intervenes, they take Miao Yin instead.
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Swires, Steve (August 1986). "John Carpenter: Kung Fu, Hollywood Style".
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the 430th greatest film in their "500 Greatest Movies of All Time" list.
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Robinson, David (November 14, 1986). "More agonies of the awkward age".
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as David Lo Pan, an ancient Chinese sorcerer who was cursed by Emperor
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into production so that it would be released before a similarly themed
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as Lightning, an elemental master who can shoot out bolts of lightning
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distills kung fu B-movies as affectionately as it subverts them." On
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was released on a two-disc special edition DVD set on May 22, 2001.
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Casting the Asian characters in the movie was approached with care.
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and Keith Barish during the summer of 1982; the script, now renamed
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progressed he came to view the two movies as "basically the same".
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Boom! released a crossover limited series between Jack Burton and
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Goldberg, Lee (September 1986). "On the Move with Kim Cattrall".
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Dickholtz, Daniel (September 1986). "Dennis Dun, Kung Fu Hero".
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while in film school, with the "strange, yet bloody and violent
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as Needles, a member of a street gang called The Lords of Death.
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Ansen, David (July 14, 1986). "Wild and Crazy in Chinatown".
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The song "We Have Candy" by the South African rap-rave group
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was partially shaped by its anticipation of competition with
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Although the original screenplay by first-time screenwriters
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Goldberg, Lee (July 1986). "Kurt Russell: Two-Fisted Hero".
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released a line of ReAction and Pop! vinyl figures based on
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writer, contrasting his approach with modern criticisms of
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Goldberg, Lee (June 1986). "W. D. Richter Writes Again!".
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an ideal role for that point in her career. Keen to avoid
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as Thunder, an elemental master who can expand his body
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Steranko, Jim (August 1986). "The Trouble with Kurt".
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A previously projected comic book series previewed by
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Films with screenplays by Gary Goldman (screenwriter)
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originated from a script by first-time screenwriters
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Weinstein was envisioned as a 3562: 3548: 2175: 2151:"Big Trouble in Little China oral history" 2093: 2011: 1993:Bennett, Tara; Terry, Paul (August 2016). 1930: 1813: 1811: 1326:that only a genre geek would appreciate." 365:Jack and Wang track the Lords of Death to 40: 2853: 2608: 2463: 2294: 2029: 1924: 1894: 1665:In 2006, American experimental rock band 1603:Learn how and when to remove this message 1458:Big Trouble in Little China: Old Man Jack 1385:acquisition of 21st Century Fox by Disney 1318:cultists; it's packed with articles from 852:s casting of Murphy; the director wanted 3065:Robles, Mario-Francisco (May 28, 2019). 3038: 2734: 2646: 2609:Attanasio, Paul (July 2, 1986). "Choppy 2311: 2305: 2274: 2184: 2050: 1913: 1060:Big Trouble in Little China (soundtrack) 956: 694:Carpenter had discovered a fondness for 4449:Films with screenplays by W. D. 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Index

Big Trouble in Little China: The Game

Drew Struzan
John Carpenter
Gary Goldman
W. D. Richter
Larry J. Franco
Kurt Russell
Kim Cattrall
Dennis Dun
Dean Cundey
Mark Warner
Alan Howarth
20th Century Fox
fantasy
action-comedy film
John Carpenter
Kurt Russell
Kim Cattrall
Dennis Dun
James Hong
San Francisco's Chinatown
Gary Goldman
Western
W. D. Richter
Eddie Murphy
The Golden Child
Hollywood
home video
cult classic

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