Trivia for
The Golden Child (1986)

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• John Carpenter was offered the job as director.
  
  
• Originally intended as a serious adventure drama with Mel Gibson in the lead role. After Gibson turned the film down and Eddie Murphy replaced him, the script was rewritten as a partial comedy.
  
  
• Although the Golden Child is referred to as a boy throughout the film, the character was actually played by a girl.
  
  

• John Barry was originally hired to compose the score, but backed out of the project during production. Although Michel Colombier completed the score, a few cues by Barry remain in the film, and one, "Wisdom of the Ages" was released on the soundtrack LP.
  
  
• According to an early-1990s interview with Eddie Murphy, a love scene between him and Charlotte Lewis was filmed, but cut from the final print.
  
  
• The Aja-Yee Dagger Chandler Jerrold (Eddie Murphy) goes to Nepal to find, later defeating Sardo (Charles Dance) with, was named after fellow comedian Franklyn Ajaye.
  
  

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