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Big Trouble in Little China (also known as John Carpenter's Big Trouble in Little China) is a 1986 American fantasy action-comedy film directed by John Carpenter, and starring Kurt Russell, Kim Cattrall, Dennis Dun and James Hong.
Feb 24, 2012 · The box office failure of Big Trouble in Little China was a bitter blow to his career. All the more reason to celebrate the director’s indomitable tenacity by watching this strange, great movie...
- Roger Cormier
- IT WAS ORIGINALLY WRITTEN AS AN 1890s WESTERN. Gary Goldman and David D. Weinstein penned a script together about a cowboy in Chinatown in 1899. The Jack Burton in Goldman and Weinstein's version was an amazing gunman who could shoot the eyes out of a kite in the sky but couldn't hit anybody in a fight.
- PRODUCTION WAS RUSHED TO BEAT EDDIE MURPHY'S THE GOLDEN CHILD INTO THEATERS. "The films have a similar theme in that they both explore Chinese legend and magic," Carpenter said of the similarities between the scripts, "but they develop in different ways.
- CARPENTER HAD A RARE MOMENT WHEN HE LOST HIS COOL. A special effects coordinator. got yelled at by Carpenter after one of the squibs on the wall went off much sooner than expected.
- KIM CATTRALL WAS BURNING THE CANDLE AT BOTH ENDS. Kim Cattrall left the set at 4:30 p.m. each day, then performed in a production of Anton Chekhov's Three Sisters.
Jul 1, 2016 · On July 1, 1986, John Carpenter’s Big Trouble in Little China — his fourth collaboration with star Kurt Russell following Elvis, Escape from New York, and The Thing — hit theaters. The...
- It isn’t long before we’re hearing Kurt Russell laugh that iconic, genuine laugh of his. The opening scene wasn’t originally in the film, but, according to Carpenter, 20th Century Fox head Barry Diller felt that, in the time of Rambo, Russell’s character, Jack Burton, wasn’t “heroic enough.”
- Carpenter sees Big Trouble in Little China as a “western,” and the film was originally written to be a period piece set in the old west where Burton is a cowboy whose horse, not semi truck, is stolen after he arrives in town.
- Russell had to learn to drive the semi truck for a few shots in the film. He jokes that he was terrified of hurting someone. Carpenter jokes he was more concerned with the actor breaking the truck.
- The set used for the opening scenes in Chinatown was created by The Thing production designer John J. Lloyd. Russell and Carpenter both remember the set being used for a Janet Jackson video with Carpenter even remembering seeing Michael Jackson walking around looking at the set while they filmed.
Mar 23, 2022 · The original script was a period piece that had the main character managing Chinese railroad workers in the Old West (the 1880s), and then travelling to San Francisco’s Chinatown, and dealing with kung-fu warriors and ghostly, mystical antagonists to recover his stolen horse.
Jul 31, 2021 · For those who aren’t familiar with it, Big Trouble in Little China is a John Carpenter film that released on July 2, 1986, one that struggled and inevitably flopped in the box office but rebounded on home video release, eventually becoming a cult classic, loved by many, but especially this reviewer. Today, I’m taking a look into why it has ...
