Jaden Smith Will Have a Busy Puberty

Jaden Smith may only be, I dunno, six or seven years old, but he's already a bankable star. Maybe a lot of that has to do with his dad, but The Karate Kid made a lot more money than anybody thought it would. So now he's setting himself up for his next gigs, assuming he gets his chores done. Ahmet Zappa and Michael Wilson worked on something called Monster Witness Relocation Program, Disney sniffed it out, and Jaden is set to star, according to Latino Review. We'll have to assume the title tells the story here, because details are scant at best as to exactly what this movie will be. We do not, however, have to assume that there might be another Ahmet Zappa in the world. Nope, this is the same dude. Frank's son, but not Dweezil. There's also movement on the sequel to The Karate Kid. Sony and producer Jerry Weintraub have hired Cyrus Voris and Ethan Reiff. Great! Now, who are those guys? Oh, they wrote Kung Fu Panda, which did OK, too. The studio really wants to get moving on this, so Voris and Reiff are staring as soon as possible. That could mean shooting early next year or next summer, and then they'd probably work a summer 2012 release. In the original Karate Kid: Part II, Daniel and Miyagi went to Japan, but the new version of the original was already set in China, so maybe this sequel comes to America. As devoted as people are to the first film, this summer's variety was actually pretty good on its own merits, and that's all you should look for in a remake. As for the kid himself, I think he's got some talent, not anything freaky like Dakota Fanning in I Am Sam, but when he's been committed, he's two-for-two. I really can't blame him for sucking in The Day the Earth Stood Still.

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[lucy]

Six or seven years old??? Do you guys do any research at all. Terrible reporting.