Duke Nukem Co-Creator Once Pitched A Big Trouble In Little China Game

Big Trouble in Little China is a beloved cult-classic movie that impressed many within the online game house, most notably the early Mortal Kombat video games. Apogee founder and Duke Nukem co-creator Scott Miller just lately revealed that he pitched a spin-off recreation primarily based on the movie, however that it by no means acquired off the bottom.

Miller posted a number of slides from the pitch on social media. Based on him, he proposed the sport “a number of years in the past” when speaking to Fox’s movie division. The slides describe the hypothetical undertaking as a sequel story that may have continued the adventures of the movie’s unwilling hero, Jack Burton (Kirk Russell).

Miller in contrast his imaginative and prescient for the sport along with his work on Duke Nukem 3D, calling it a “fast-action, humor-filled first-person motion recreation.” One slide lists a number of parts of the movie that the sport would’ve featured: Chinese language black magic, Jack Burton’s truck the Pork Chop Categorical, bullet time, and “sorcerer aliens from house.” (That is primarily based on a Burton quote from the movie: “A man must be some kinda idiot to suppose we’re on their lonesome within the universe.”)

Miller mentioned that the pitch was into consideration when Disney started the deal to purchase twentieth Century Fox, which closed in 2019, and that it died after Disney took management of the model. Although the movie was famously unsuccessful on the field workplace, the concept of reviving cult classics into video video games has change into extra fashionable lately. For instance, Robocop: Rogue Metropolis launched to comparatively constructive evaluations again in 2023.