…The re-imagining of the 1984 action comedy “The Karate Kid,” opening Friday via Columbia Pictures. Shooting in China, director Harald Zwart (“Pink Panther 2”) had a crew of 560 people, almost none of whom spoke English, but managed to shoot as if he were making a small film…
…”When we went to those temples where we had to go up with a gondola that holds two people at a time, it would have taken a day to transport the whole crew up there. So we just went, ‘Let’s go handheld.’ ”
Jackie and Will pitched in carrying equipment, Zwart said, and “it was almost like doing a student movie — just with these huge movie stars. And that was just amazing to me.”…