Literally the whole premise of the movie was about Karate until they put in a black kid and Jackie Chan to insert Kung Fu in it for some darn reason. I wonder if they're going to trash Karate and make it like Kung Fu is superior or some crap like that.
shareMaybe they thought 'Kung Fu Kid' sounded like a cheap knock-off.
shareThat argument can be made for the 2010 movie. Jaden Smith was even calling it that when they were filming. But calling it Karate Kid made it better? No. They could have called it something else entirely if "Kung Fu Kid" sounded weird. To call it something that doesn't reflect the main element was just ridiculous and pure marketing ploy at its finest.
With this movie, since it does have Daniel LaRusso, there may be some karate thrown in to make the title more relevant here at least.
I'm still thinking they should branch out and finally get around to making The Judo Junior.
James Cordon could play the portly (which I believe is the social acceptable terms nowadays for what we once would have called the now deemed offensive "fatty", "tubby", "lardy" or maybe "fatso") former Judo master, now working as a cabby who decides to help a young lad being beaten up and bullied at school for being a portly.
Maybe the kid jumps into his cab one night whilst fleeing from his tormentors thus bringing the pair together.
Through the power of judo the young lad would destroy his enemies and take part in the local judo competition where he'd be crowned national champion.
James Cordon is white which means that the portly young lad would need to be black or Asian. I'm thinking that fat kid from Spiderman could fit the bill for this rags to richies tale of overcoming the odds...