Big Trouble in Little China

Big Trouble in Little China is an American franchise that began with the 1986 fantasy action-comedy film of the same name, directed by John Carpenter and starring Kurt Russell as the truck driver Jack Burton, who is drawn into a supernatural conflict beneath San Francisco's Chinatown. The film was a commercial failure on release but later found a steady audience through television and home video, and it has since built a cult following. The franchise grew mostly after that reappraisal. A tie-in video game was published in 1986 for home computers, and Boom! Studios began a comic book series in 2014 written by Eric Powell and John Carpenter, followed by a crossover with Escape from New York in 2016 and the miniseries Old Man Jack in 2017. Merchandise has included vinyl figures from 2015, a card game from 2016 and a cooperative board game released in 2018. A sequel or remake was in development with Dwayne Johnson's company but had not materialised by the time of the source.