The Pork-Chop Express is rolling again, though ol’ Jack Burton may not be aboard.

Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson is developing a sequel to 1986’s “Big Trouble in Little China” as a starring vehicle for himself, but original star Kurt Russell tells USA TODAY he “probably won’t be” in the continuation of director John Carpenter’s action-adventure.

Russell’s bumbling Burton wooed Kim Cattrall and helped a bud take down evil mythical sorcerers in San Francisco’s Chinatown in the first film, a box-office flop that became a cult classic and even a comic book.

Johnson and Russell have worked together in the “Fast and Furious” movies, and Russell’s definitely a Rock fan: “He's just a really good guy. I like working with him and if he's going to do it, he and his crew will hopefully be able to come up with something that I guess makes the title work.”

But Russell remarks that it’ll be hard to recapture Carpenter’s look and feel, “which was very, very fresh at that time,” as well as the unconventional action hero that made “Big Trouble” work so well. “Nobody had ever done a leading man who didn't realize he wasn't the leading man. He behaves like the sidekick but doesn't know that. That hadn't been done and it was difficult for the studio to get around in terms of promoting it, too,” says Russell, who's now starring as Santa Claus in Netflix's "The Christmas Chronicles."

He wishes them luck, though. “I always say the same thing, which is, well, you've got to make a good movie,” Russell figures. “I'll still take the original ‘Mutiny on the Bounty.’ ”