The Rock to portray Jack Burton?

[simonize]

sigh the movie I’m still waiting for is Buckaroo Banzai vs the World Crime League…

[Cormac_Russell]

YES! Someday… right? Sigh.

[MsScience]

@Shuck

Jack Burton isn’t the hero. He’s the sidekick who thinks he’s the hero.

Absolutely spot on, and one of the best features of the movie, nothing shakes his perception that he’s the Hero.

It’s all in the wrist.

[Donald_Petersen]

@jhbadger

It’s a bit hard not to call “The Thing” a remake given that it was called “The Thing”. If it were just based on the John W. Campbell story, it would have been titled “Who Goes There?”, the title of the story itself.

Well, to be fair, the 1951 version was The Thing From Another World. And the Carpenter movie hews much more closely to Campbell’s short story, so I understand @SamWinston 's point.

That said, The Last Remake of Beau Geste, despite very obvious departures from the source text, is still technically a remake, and so is Carpenter’s The Thing, unlike the identically-titled sequel from a couple years ago.

[Nuke_Ourlimo]

True, Jack is not the hero but he does have exceedingly good reflexes as evidenced by a scene early in the movie where he catches the bottle that Wang fails to cut in half and also SPOILER: the Lo Pan death scene near the end. No idea how he got so good at knife throwing though!