Today, on 23rd December 2009, the new 'The Karate Kid' remake trailer was released with much anticipation from both sceptics and fans. The movie stars hollywood martial artist from Hong Kong Jackie Chan and Will Smiths son, Jaden (pirctured right).
Some are heaviliy sceptic about this whole movie, saying the original karate kid movie should be left alone and that this is a money making and fame increasing session for Will Smiths son, whom his father is pushing into Hollywood. Well this is the first look at the trailer which was released today.
The original movie was released in 1984, some 26 years later this movie is set to be released in July 2010. Filming is currently underway in Beijing. Judging from the trailer, the plot has many similarities with the original Karate Kid movie however whereas Daniel Larusso and his mother in the original movie moved across USA, in the remake Jaden Smith and his mother in the movie have a much larger relocation - to Beijing, China. The people involved in the movie said that the remake will involve more confilcts between cultural differences rather than just bullying from 'school jocks'.
Check out the new Karate Kid remake trailer here...
So what are your thoughts? This movie has suffered heavy criticism over the past year, should the original karate kid be remade or not, and should it be Will Smiths son... does he have what it takes to take Ralph Macchio's place?
looks actually better than I
looks actually better than I originally imagined. Lets face it, the original karate kids were blown out of proportion and were not actually that good anyway.
yeah the original is good for
yeah the original is good for 5 years olds, nothing else. This looks promising actually.
not good
Whats with the gangster music, what is Will Smith thinking?
Berverly Hills? He lives there in real life anyway, talk about rubbing it in
other kids faces.
Not surpass the original
Are they really thinking they can out do the original karate kid movie?
This trailer looks ok, but that fly thing in regards to Mr Miagi is just not
funny.
Pathetic
This is so pathetic of Will Smith to do this, leave Karate Kid alone, and
even more, dont use it as an attempt to get your son into hollywood!