Nearly 30 years after director John Carpenter's Big Trouble in Little China introduced bumbling protagonist Jack Burton ... taking the fiancée of Burton's pal Wang Chi as his own wife in ...

Once John Carpenter was brought onboard to direct, he immediately wanted Russell, whom he had worked with on The Thing and Escape From New York, as Jack Burton ... Part Of Wang Chi Chan was ...

Jack Burton only THINKS he's the hero in this story, as the real hero is Jack's friend, Wang Chi (Dennis Dun). Wang Chi is an expert martial artist, and he basically saves the day with every ...

In it, truck driver Jack Burton (Kurt Russell) becomes entangled in a battle against ancient evil with his friend and pseudo-sidekick, Wang Chi (Dennis Dun). Instead of being an all-out action ...

Specifically, Weinstein didn’t like Kurt Russell’s performance as Jack Burton. “When I originally ... role of Jack’s partner-in-heroics, Wang Chi, after the studio disagreed with Carpenter ...