Can it ever hope to live up to the standards of the original? Can we even dream that The Karate Kid do-over will crane-kick us in the head the way that first film did? And can Jaden "son of Will" Smith fill Ralph Macchio's shoes? Well, here's a step to answering these important questions: the first official stills from the film.
Here we see Jaden as "Dre", the son of a single mother (Taraji P. Henson, we're guessing) who has to relocate to China when his mother's job forces her to move there. Lonely at first, he meets Mr Han (Jackie Chan) who teaches him karate and becomes an unlikely friend via the medium of waxing on and waxing off. Then, we're saying, he ends up crane-kicking the local bully into the middle of next week.
The Karate Kid is out here on July 16, 2010, so you've got plenty of time to practice catching flies with chopsticks between now and then.