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Will Smith Remakes The Karate Kid, Casts His Son in Lead

Posted by Cole Gamble

Here is some more news on that Karate Kid remake that's gonna kick your precious childhood memories right in the nuts:

 

As you can imagine, any Karate Kid remake will require going through the paces of the original, such as the “wax on, wax off” scene. Except now they’d be updated with modern, yet even more tired references like, “Turn the Internet history on, turn the Internet history off. Clean the hard drive, side to side.” And you can bet you’ll get a Nintendo Wii product placement in that training sequence.

 

Not helping matters, the new Miyagi is reportedly Jackie Chan, who will deliver all this eastern wisdom with the mush mouth diction of the Elephant Man doing Jello shots on his birthday at Hooters.

 

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What do you think? New Karate Kid: Sign of the apocalypse or tolerable idea?


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Comments

 

Mike Adamick (Cry It Out!) said:

The last line? Pure awesome.

November 18, 2008 12:47 PM
 

Clare said:

Jackie Chan isn't even Japanese what a rip.

November 18, 2008 11:43 PM
 

Boone Giles said:

This is probably the worst news I have heard in years... Who does Will Smith think he is? You cannot remake The Karate Kid. Cannot be done. This is more rediculous than Samuel L. Jackson deciding to remake The Lion King as a live action film, casting himself as Simba. Will he replace You're the Best Around with Summertime? Who will play the Cobra Kai? Jackie Chan as Mr.Miyagi? Goodnight!Anyone who goes to see this travesty should get a knitting needle shoved between their index and middle fingers upon exiting the theatre.

December 13, 2008 3:51 PM

About Cole Gamble

Cole Gamble’s writings on the crimes of Willy Wonka, man-eating beds and tales from his cringe-worthy life appear here on Babble, the humor site Cracked, The Daily Beast, The Huffington Post and Salon. He is working on a book entitled, Conquer Everything! A Self Help Book to Destroy All Other Self Help Books and Grant You Mastery in Everything.

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