The Pork Chop Express hits the road with a new driver. Read the full article on AICN Jeremy here... Though beloved today, John Carpenter's BIG TROUBLE IN LITTLE CHINA was a tremendous flop when released on July 2, 1986. 20th Century Fox had three big movies that summer in BTILC, ALIENS and THE FLY, and, by the time they got around to marketing them, Carpenter's brilliant "John Wayne Meets The Shaw Brothers" riff was the one they didn't get.