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After The Karate Kid‘s opening weekend gross of $56 million blew past its $40 million budget, a sequel to the Jaden Smith-Jackie Chan-starrer seemed inevitable. Sure enough, agency sources tell me that Sony’s Columbia Pictures execs are meeting with writers to pitch their ideas on where to take the second installment. This will mean shortly that Will Smith won’t be the only man in the Smith household making sequels.
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Urgh.
Why can’t Hollywood ever leave well enough alone?
While I agree with you, from all your delightfully knowledgeable posts you know as well as I do no one involved with this has the artistic fortitude to pass on the enormous pay day that awaits them with a sequel.
But, with that said, I sincerely hope that Will will wait for the right script and pick a good director for the second one. My feeling is that he will.
But he did just sign on to do MIB 3… so who knows…
i love this film sequel i can’t wait wait for this
I request an invitation sent to Hilary Swank in the hopes that she’ll re-join the (new) franchise. Anyone else in favor? Anyone??
Uh, no?
Of course.
Problem is, the likelihood of Will & Jada dedicating a year or two of their lives AGAIN to produce the film again is slim, in which case the quality will be affected since they did such a great job on the first. Also, with a sequel, the film loses the underdog appeal. I mean he was a bullied kid who turned things around in his favor. What now? Anything more will just be repetitive. Why oh why must Hollywood milk EVERYTHING past it’s worth. WHAT is wrong with just letting a great thing stay a great thing!?
Besides, odds are the 2nd film will have roughly the same budget but be moved to Louisiana (somehow doubling as China) in order to save production costs, lol. Instead of going bigger and better and keeping the locations exotic and stunning they’ll probably turn it into a budget saving, corner-cutting production. Because come on, don’t they always?
“Why oh why must Hollywood milk EVERYTHING past it’s worth. WHAT is wrong with just letting a great thing stay a great thing!?”
Because sequels make money, the original Karate Kid had two sequels. Hollywood is in the business to make money for the stockholders of the media companies that OWN the studios.
This isn’t the days of Louis B. Mayer.
No disrespect, but with the classy genes that jaden smith has, I would go watch him do anything. Add in his own talent, a good franchise, a good script and you have a winner. Not surprised to see a sequel was going to happen.
Jaden (crying to parents): IT’S MY FRANCHISE, AND I WANT A SEQUEL!
Jada: This movie will only earn $300 million world wide. YOU HAVEN’T EARNED ENOUGH FOR A SEQUEL!
I would bet you my mother this makes more than 300 million worldwide.
ROFLOL!!! @ Lorraine.
haha, thats exactly what I was thinking to myself until I read your comment!
Jada had sequels – Matrix.
This is actually a reboot.
Stupid move. The movie will tank next weekend, just like WANTED.
Or like Avatar didn’t make any money?
How does it feel like the be the laughing stock of this site?
Hey Whiskey–
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
maybe get jazzy jeff jr. in there too.
They should take the whole reboot concept to the next (il)logical step. Name the movie “The Karate Kid Part II.”
Maybe the duo could travel to Okinawa and actually learn Karate. That would be neat!
go ahead and flip your burgers
LL, shooting in China is cheaper than in America.
Karate Kid sequel will most likely at least break even, but will it be worth the hassle given that it’s mainly going to employ Chinese?
It’ll be in 3D
God help us!
Haven’t you people figured out yet that Whiskey is a provoker? He only makes these absurd comments to rile you guys up. And he gets you every time.
For the love of God, this is exactly what I said was going to happen last week. America, when you fork your hard-earned money over to these hackjob studios for their pointless and insulting remakes, you not only encourage them to make MORE of them, but also to make SEQUELS to them. This is beyond offensive, and it has to stop.
This is it. This is the breaking point. STOP PAYING TO WATCH THIS GARBAGE. DEMAND ORIGINAL MOVIES WITH ORIGINAL STORIES. NO MORE REMAKES, NO MORE REBOOTS. It’s one thing to remake very old movies that aren’t very well-known or have no modern context; it’s another thing completely to remake movies from recent cinematic history that are so near and dear to so many people’s hearts and simply have no NEED to be remade, such as The Karate Kid.
Avatar didn’t make $2 billion for nothing. People are hungry for original movies. So let’s STOP sending Hollywood the message that we’ll pay to see pointless drivel like The Karate Kid and whatever bogus sequel(s) they’re cooking up for it, and start demanding some new material. The remake train is headed full-throttle down the tracks now, America, and there’s no one to blame for it but YOU.
MAKE IT STOP.
Avatar was a nice movie based on the same plot as Dances with Wolves, The Last Samurai, Aliens, and Fern Gully: The Last Rain Forest all rolled into one.
I do not support movies whom think adding more and more future-bound relativity makes a good movie.
If I want to see that big corporations ruin the world…I’ll turn on the news of BP’s big oil spill.
If I want to see a feel good martial arts movie that doesn’t suck…I’ll watch The Karate Kid.
I think the real total weekend box office for Karate Kid must be higher than $56 million. If the box office was really that low, it’s just because the theaters didn’t schedule enough screenings.
The theater I was in was packed, and everyone came out cheering and clapping.
They will make a sequel, it will bomb big time and they will regret doing it. Like what almost always happens.
@ A Spouse – honestly, shame on you for even going. Shame on everybody who made this movie a success. Aren’t you tired of all these stupid remakes yet? Don’t you WANT to see some new movies finally start getting made? Why are you, or anybody else, paying your money to support this insipid garbage? I am just so fed up.
Well if your so tired of it…Why are you wasting your breath about it? You have an opportunity to stop talking about it since you do not like it! And thanks for your opinion but there are many out there that like remakes especially since new technology is here and movies are way better if re-made! Besides the new ones coming out suck!
I can’t even believe how good this movie was. I loved the originals (1-3) and my expectations for this were really low but now I’m actually excited for this sequel.
Chan and Smith were great but that evil chinese kid and his teacher were even better. I just wish Chan had some more fighting scenes, I was shocked he didn’t fight the teacher at the end.
Hopefully the sequel will start with that guy breaking trophies and punching out car windows outside the tourney.
i love the original Karate Kid because of Ralph Macchio (my forever teenage days crush!) and Mr Miyagi aka Pat Morita (God bless his soul). now the 2010 TKK remake is a very close homage to the orig. my family and i loved its location Beijing, China being there myself personally for a brief vacation in 2006. very breathtaking sceneries and awesome being at the Great Wall, i can very much relate to this movie. Jackie Chan is very well deserved as the reclusive but great kung fu teacher Mr Han and kudos as well to Jaden Smith for enduring most of the hard stunts in the movie.great hard work! he may also apply the kung fu training in his futire flicks,no doubt! overall loved the film and it didnt matter if it was more than 2 hrs. i wont stop enjoying and revisiting The Forbidden City and Great Wall over and over…Congrats!
the post that made it sound like if a movie makes $300 million world wide that it is nothing is the funniest thing I ever read, especially if the budget for that movie was around $40 million…hahahahahah
If anyone coming out cheering and clapping from the theatre after the movie is mostly likely haven’t seen the original or knew it existed. Pray to god there better not be a sequel. A crap movie.
Honestly I liked the new karate kid movie, and not as bad as I thought it would be, because remakes tend to ruined classics. But a sequel to this, I don’t know. To me, it is fine the way it is. But if they are willing to do it, well good luck to them. So if they are willing to do it, then will the sequel be like the original sequel. Makes more since if they wanted to make a sequel to the new karate kid movie.
This film was high quality and fresh. I think that a sequel would have to continue the hero’s journey. After learning Kung Fu, he needs to return to Detroit. Maybe it’s a few years later, his friend’s caught up in a gang or something… Keep it new, current, and relevant… In any event, we need a passage of time a few years for Jaden to grow up. The next film should not be “Karate Kid II” should be another title… keep the concept, but don’t copy the 1980s films…