She is being met by her friend Gracie Law. To make sure he follows through on payment, Jack accompanies him to the airport to pick up Wang's Chinese fiancée Miao Yin, where a Chinese-American street gang, the Lords of Death, tries to kidnap another Chinese girl.
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Truck driver Jack Burton wins a bet with his friend Wang Chi. It gained a steady audience on home video and has become a cult classic. It received generally positive reviews, but left Carpenter disillusioned with Hollywood and influenced his decision to return to independent filmmaking. The film was a commercial failure, grossing $11.1 million in North America, below its estimated $19 to $25 million budget.
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The project fulfilled Carpenter's long-standing desire to make a martial arts film. The studio hired Carpenter to direct the film and rushed Big Trouble in Little China into production so that it would be released before a similarly themed Eddie Murphy film, The Golden Child, which was slated to come out around the same time. Richter was hired to rewrite the script extensively and modernize it. Weinstein was envisioned as a Western set in the 1880s, screenwriter W. Īlthough the original screenplay by first-time screenwriters Gary Goldman and David Z. They go into the mysterious underworld beneath Chinatown, where they face an ancient sorcerer named David Lo Pan, who requires a woman with green eyes to marry him in order to release him from a centuries-old curse.
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The film tells the story of Jack Burton, who helps his friend Wang Chi rescue Wang's green-eyed fiancée from bandits in San Francisco's Chinatown. Big Trouble in Little China (also known as John Carpenter's Big Trouble in Little China) is a 1986 American fantasy martial arts action black comedy film directed by John Carpenter and starring Kurt Russell, Kim Cattrall, Dennis Dun and James Hong.