- KARATE KID 2
Jaden Smith with the Original Karate Kid |
It might not
have been everyones favorite film, but the Karate Kid cost $40 million to make
and managed to make a little over $300 million in the Box office. A sequel to The Karate Kid was clearly a
no-brainer, and, following a previous draft by the Kung-Fu Panda team of Cyrus Voris and Ethan Reiff, the job of writing Karate Kid 2 has now fallen to Zak
Penn.
Absolutely
no details about the direction of the follow-up are yet being revealed,
although there's been speculation that, in a reversal of the original Ralph
Macchio Karate Kid 2, the action
might take us from East to West. Columbia pictures are tight-lipped on the
subject. Maybe Jaden Smith could actually learn the right martial art this time.
Zak Penn
contributed to the second and third X-Men movies
and wrote Louis Leterrier's The
Incredible Hulk. He's
since been beavering away on SyFy's series Alphas. It's not clear yet whether
his Karate Kid 2 is an overhaul
of what's already been written, or a start-over from scratch.
As before, Jaden's
dad Will Smith is producing Karate Kid
2 with James Lassiter and Ken Stovitz. Jaden, obviously, is expected to
be back, and all involved are hoping that Jackie Chan will join him again.
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