Note: As some commenters have pointed out, there was a computer game based on Big Trouble in Little China released back in 1987 for the Commodore 64, ZX Spectrum and Amstrad CPC. Carpenter either didn’t realize/remember this (mostly likely), or he was inferring a console-based game inspired by the film. Either way, the film could certainly could use another adaptation.

Once again, it’s no secret that John Carpenter is a fan of video games. And one of his most beloved films in The Thing made for a pretty good romp in video game form. But Carpenter thinks that one of his other films would make for a good video game adaptation in Big Trouble in Little China.

In a chat with ComicBook.com talking about what other films he’s done that would make for a good video game, Carpenter mentions another of his collaborations with Kurt Russell in 1986’s Big Trouble in Little China as being ripe for an adaptation. “I don’t know. I think, maybe… Big Trouble in Little China, it seems to me would be a fun video game and kick ass. There’s also, by the way, a Thing card game. I mean, there’s a lot of these games. There’s actually a They Live [board] game. I don’t know that there would ever be a Prince of Darkness game. I don’t see that.”

Despite Carpenter’s doubts about a Prince of Darkness adaptation, the film’s cosmic horror overtones would no doubt fit in nicely with other Lovecraftian video games. As for Big Trouble in Little China? That too could work, with the idea of Jack Burton being something of a parody of macho main characters that could lean into a sort of Serious Sam vibe.

At the moment on the video game front, Carpenter is involved with Focus Home Entertainment and Saber Interactive’s Toxic Commando, which was announced earlier this summer, and is aiming for release on PC and consoles next year.