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Mar 23, 2022 · The original script came from writers Gary Goldman and David Z. Weinstein. The script is not generally available today – many people have tried to find copies of it without success. This was Goldman’s first Writer credit on IMDb, but he later wrote Total Recall (1990) and a few other screenplays.
- The Movie’S Original Setting Was 1890s San Francisco
- There’S A Reason The Truck Was Named The “Pork-Chop Express”
- Jack Burton’s Insane Boots Were Kurt Russell’s Idea
- Dennis Dun’s Agent Advised Him Not to Join The Cast
- The Actor Playing Rain Had No Idea He Was in A Comedy
- Dennis Dun Named His Daughter After His Favorite Co-Star
- Kim Cattrall Suffered For Those Green Eyes
- Gracie Law Had A Tragic Backstory
- The Wild Man Was A Bit of A Diva
- The Guardian Was So Hard (and expensive) to Make
Gary Goldman and David Z. Weinstein, the two screenwriters who originally came up with the idea to make an “Asian mystical martial arts movie” set in the West, set their tale during San Francisco’s wild Barbary Coast days. The contemporary setting was added during the script rewrite by W.D. Richter (director of The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Acr...
Speaking of Jack’s truck, a script extract shared in the book notes that the truck is “pig-filled” as it zooms across the Golden Gate Bridge in those opening shots. The theme continued, as Richter specifies that the giant sandwich Jack stuffs into his mouth between CB radio rants is, in fact, a ham sandwich.
Though the Big Troublebook showers rightful praise on costume designer April Ferry, Russell says he had a hand in selecting his character’s distinctive footwear. He had Jack Burton’s “funky, high-top moccasins” specially made in Aspen at a shop he happened to know about.
The man who plays Jack’s old friend Wang Chi—and who ends up being the real hero of the story—was also offered a part in a TV movie that was filming at the same time, so he had to choose. His agent advised him to play it safe and pass on the bizarre-sounding John Carpenter film, but Dun went for the wild card because he was a huge Buckaroo Banzaifa...
Peter Kwong tells the authors that his scenes as Rain, one of the villainous Lo Pan’s well-armed lieutenants, were so intense that he was under the impression that Big Trouble was merely “an action-adventure with a mysterious ghost story.” It wasn’t until he filmed his last-act fight—and noted Dennis Dun’s over-the-top eyebrow raise at a key moment...
Dun was so inspired by his experience working with Victor Wong, who plays Egg Shen, that he named his daughter Victoria in his honor. Their friendship actually spanned years before and after the movie; Dun and Wong had performed in plays together at San Francisco’s Asian American Theater Company, and they made three films together in three years: M...
And not just at the gnarled, creepy hands of Lo Pan. Gracie Law’s prized peepers came courtesy of painful hard contact lenses that she had to insert 15 minutes before going on camera, because that’s how long it took her eyes to stop watering.
According to a paragraph of exposition that was (rather wisely) cut from the final script, Gracie was born in China but was shipped back to the states as a child after her missionary parents were “massacred.”
The stunt man who donned the hairy Wild Man costume is never named in the book, and there’s a good reason for that: he was a pain to work with. For one thing, he hated the suit he was hired to wear, because it’s cumbersome, elongated arms made it impossible for him to do anything while he was in costume. He also couldn’t really see, because his hea...
The eyeball-covered floating head that pursues Jack, Egg Shen, and company through the halls of the Spirit Path only appears on screen very briefly, but Steve Johnson still calls the creature, which was crafted by a team led by effects legend Screaming Mad George, “themost difficult thing I’ve ever been asked to create.” Over 60 artists and enginee...
Jul 2, 1986 · The screenplay by Gary Goldman, David Z. Weinstein and W. D. Richter provides a diligent and dumb newspaper reporter from the radical Berkeley People's Herald named Margo (Kate Burton) who...
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Jul 1, 1986 · Film: Big Trouble in Little China. Director: John Carpenter. Producer: Larry J. Franco. Screenwriters: Gary Goldman, David Z. Weinstein. Adaptation: W. D. Richter. Starring: Kurt Russell, Kim Cattrall, Dennis Dun. Music Composers: John Carpenter, Alan Howarth. Cinematographer: Dean Cundey.
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Action. Adventure. Fantasy. 20th Century Studios. Where to Watch. Powered by. Written by Gary Goldman, David Z. Weinstein, and W.D. Richter.When trucker Jack Burton agreed to take his friend, Wang Chi, to pick up his fiancee at the airport, he never expected to get involved in a supernatural battle between good and evil.
