No, no, no.
From the Wing Kong Exchange:
AND: Update from screenwriter Corey Mitchel - Corey reports that he spoke with producer Debra Hill and director John Carpenter last week, and John is "totally on board" for a Big Trouble sequel, provided that Corey can get it set up. Kurt Russell is similarly interested, and work is underway in getting in touch with Jackie Chan regarding the project!
Woof. I think a "Big Trouble in Little China" sequel is a stupendously bad idea. Carpenter's and Russell's track record with sequels to date hasn't been very impressive, to say the least. What's more, I'm afraid they won't be able to duplicate the ensemble magic of the original. Victor Wong is gone, it sounds like James Hong and Dennis Dun would be relegated to cameos, at best, and good luck getting Kim Cattrall to get her camp on again as Gracie Law.
Another great thing about the first "Big Trouble" was how fresh the classic kung fu look was to American audiences in 1986. Now, everyone from the Wachowskis to the Wayans brothers to MuchMusic has bled the fun out of the genre. And frankly, the idea of casting Jackie Chan doesn't make a possible sequel sound substantially different than "Shanghai Noon"/"Shanghai Knights." Maybe we can look forward to bullet time or worse, the "Big Trouble" sequel becoming nothing more than another throwaway martial arts comedy-actioner.
Can Carpenter preserve the old Jack Burton charm? Will we get another CB monologue? I have my doubts, but I'm grudgingly willing to wait until a finished product comes along to hopefully prove me wrong. If not, Carpenter can join John Landis and Steven Spielberg in the Hell of Directors Who Should Have Left Well Enough Alone.
This movie is a bad idea.
But I'll see it anyway.
And so will millions of other people.
And maybe that's the point.
*sigh*
I managed to resist "Blues Brothers 2000". I will resist "Bigger Trouble In Littler China", or whatever the hell they call it.
It's kinda hard to tell how much of Big Trouble was repurposed from Buckaroo Banzai: Against The World Crime League.
There's the script for the pilot for the BB TV show that doesn't seem to be getting made and there's apparently a new novel in the grinder, so there's plenty of BB material to use if they go that route again.