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Johnson will play Jack Burton, ” an all-American trucker who gets dragged into a centuries-old mystical battle in San Francisco’s Chinatown.” He’ll also produce the remake of John Carpenter‘s cult classic.
The site reveals that the wrestler turned actor is a fan or the original film and actually pitched it to rights holders Fox alongside his producing partners at Seven Bucks Productions, Dany Garcia and Hiram Garcia.
The original 1986 version of Big Trouble in Little China starred Kurt Russell and Kim Cattrall, and earned a paltry $11 million. That hasn’t stopped it from developing a devoted fan following in the years which have followed though. There’s no word on a production start date or release date for the remake just yet.
As well as Big Trouble in Little China, Johnson is also attached to anticipated DC Comics movie Shazam.