‘Karate Kid’ Remake Plot Details Emerge

Daniel-san will now be Dre-san.   Mr. Miyagi will now be Mr. Han.   Everyone’s going to be Kung-Fu fighting instead of lashing out Karate kicks.   However, it’s still going to be called ‘The Karate Kid.’   Strange.

Moviehole has learned plot details on the new remake directed by Harald Zwart, produced by Will smith, and starring Jackie Chan and Jaden Smith.

Here are just a few:

• The film takes place in Beijing
• Mr. Han (Chan) is the maintenance man of the apartment building Dre and his mother, Sherry, have moved into
• Dre is a skateboarding video-game buff
• Mr. Han decides to teach Dre martial arts and the Chinese language after seeing Dre attempt (unsuccessfully) a karate kick while playing a video game
• John Kreese has been replaced by Li Quan Ha, the owner of the Fighting Drago dojo
• Johnny Lawrence has been replaced by Lui Wei Cheng, a bully at Dre’s new school
• The producers behind the film, particularly Will Smith, don’t want to remake the 1984 film as much as they want to work from the same blueprint and create their own film.

“The film has a similar tone to the original movie”, Moviehole’s source reveals. “There are a lot of funny lines – mainly delivered by Jackie Chan. It is actually a good script though, very good in fact. It’s different enough to be considered its own beast too”.

‘The Karate Kid’ or ‘The Kung Fu Kid’ or whatever the final film will be called, comes out on June 11, 2010.

Source: Moviehole