The Rock to portray Jack Burton?

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

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YES! Someday… right? Sigh.

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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.

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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.

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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!

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