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The Golden Child is a 1986 American dark fantasy action comedy film directed by Michael Ritchie.The film stars Eddie Murphy as Chandler Jarrell, a Los Angeles social worker who is informed that he is "The Chosen One", and is destined to save "The Golden Child", a kidnapped Tibetan boy with mystical powers who is said to be the savior of all humankind.
Aiden Mason of TV Overmind suggested [57] that Kee Nang bore similarities to Chun-Li from Capcom's Street Fighter video game series. In August 2020, Lovell Porter from the website Blaque Rabbit, suggested [26] that Jessica Henwick should play Kee Nang in a hypothetical remake [58] of The Golden Child.
The Golden Child is a 1977 mystery novel [2] by the British author Penelope Fitzgerald, her first published work of fiction.Written while her husband was terminally ill, and partly for his benefit, the novel offers a satirical version of the 1972 Treasures of Tutankhamun exhibition at the British Museum, and pokes fun at museum politics, academics, and Cold War spying.
He also wrote the novelisation of the movie The Golden Child starring Eddie Murphy. Chesbro was born in Washington, D.C. He worked as a special education teacher at Pearl River and later at Rockland Psychiatric Center, where he worked with troubled teens. Chesbro was married and had a son, a daughter and two stepdaughters. [2]
In The Golden Child (1986), a social worker is informed that he is "The Chosen One", who is destined to save the titular "Golden Child", a kidnapped Tibetan boy with mystical powers. In the film Little Buddha (1993), Tibetan Buddhist monks from a monastery in Bhutan are searching for a special child who is the rebirth of a great Buddhist ...
To beat the rival production to in theaters, Big Trouble went into production in October 1985 so it could open in July 1986, five months before The Golden Child ' s Christmas release. [12] Carpenter was hired by 20th Century Fox because of his reputation for working fast, and the film had a limited preproduction schedule of 10–12 weeks. [8] [12]
The use of a MacGuffin as a plot device predates the name MacGuffin. The Holy Grail of Arthurian legend has been cited as an early example of a MacGuffin. The Holy Grail is the desired object that is essential to initiate and advance the plot, but the final disposition of the Grail is never revealed, suggesting that the object is not of significance in itself. [8]
The Golden Child, a 1977 novel by Penelope Fitzgerald; Golden Child, novel by Claire Adam listed by the BBC as one of the 100 'most influential' novels; Golden Child, a 1998 play by David Henry Hwang; Golden Child (comics), a Marvel Comics mutant