karate kid plot line (sort of) released.
Posted in huh, wtf on April 19th, 2009a casting call for the karate kid remake was released recently and this is what it had to say about the story line:
Young Dre Parker and his mom Sherry leave their native Detroit for Beijing, where Sherry has gotten a job in a Chinese car factory. Dre’s initial delight in his newly adopted city, not to mention his beautiful new friend, Mei Ying, quickly fades when he becomes the target of a group of Mei Ying’s jealous young admirers, all proficient in kung fu. Abused and demoralized, Dre just wants to leave Beijing and go back home. But Mr. Han, the custodian in Dre’s new apartment building, is also a martial arts master who takes Dre under his wing and teaches him kung fu — just in time for Dre to face down his adversaries at the Beijing Open Martial Arts Cup competition…
er, ok, so it’s called the karate kid but they are aware it’s kung fu that the kid is being taught…?
no word yet on what they’re looking for in terms of the kais but I nominate bolo yeung for the john kreese role.