Kung Fu Reboot Gets Full Series Order At CW

Kung Fu Reboot Gets Full Series Order At CW

A few months after landing Legacies alum Olivia Liang to lead the reboot pilot of the David Carradine-led martial arts series, The CW has picked up Kung Fu for a full series from Warner Bros. TV, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

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Tzi Ma (Mulan) and Kheng Hua Tan (Crazy Rich Asians) are set to play the roles of Jin Chen and Mei-Lei, who are the young female lead’s parents. They’re described as restaurateurs whose secrets threaten to destroy their lives just as they deal with the return of their estranged daughter.

In the Kung Fu reboot series, a quarter-life crisis causes a young Chinese-American woman, Nicky Chen (Liang), to drop out of college and go on a life-changing journey to an isolated monastery in China. But when she returns to find her hometown overrun with crime and corruption, she uses her martial arts skills and Shaolin values to protect her community and bring criminals to justice…all while searching for the assassin who killed her Shaolin mentor and is now targeting her.

The original series was created by Ed Spielman, Jerry Thorpe and Herman Miller which ran on air for three seasons from 1972-1975. It starred late veteran actor David Carradine, who portrayed the role of Kwai Chang Caine. The Kung Fu series was also adapted into a film in 1986 titled Kung Fu: The Movie and it also spawned off two spinoff series: Kung Fu: The Next Generation and Kung Fu: The Legend Continues.

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Co-created by Blindspot‘s Christina M. Kim and Martin Gero, the new Kung-Fu series is written by Kim and will be executive produced by Greg Berlanti and Sarah Schechter through their Berlanti Productions along with Kim and Gero through Gero’s Quinn’s House Production banner. The project was first introduced at FOX and was given a pilot commitment in 2018 but the deal fell through and it never went to pilot.

Berlanti, a master of superhero TV shows, has helmed series including All AmericanArrowBlack Lightning, DC’s Legends of TomorrowThe FlashRiverdaleSupergirlBlindspotGod Friended MeThe Red LineThe Chilling Adventures of SabrinaYou, and Titans.

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