Cool Teaser Trailer for the Bruce Lee Anime Series HOUSE OF LEE
The first teaser trailer has been released for an upcoming Bruce Lee martial arts anime series titled House of Lee. The series comes from Lee’s daughter Shannon Lee and Bruce Lee Entertainment. The trailer comes as Lee’s classic film Enter The Dragon is coming up on its 50th anniversary.
Bruce Lee Entertainment has been looking to do a Bruce Lee animated project for years, and they are finally doing it. Shannon Lee was ultimately inspired by her own personal experiences to create the story behind House of Lee.
Lee said in a statement: “Anime is an amazing medium for telling a truly creative story where Bruce Lee can be Bruce Lee. I’m so excited for the possibilities for action, fantasy, history, culture, and creativity within this medium.”
House of Lee is “an action/fantasy series that sees Bruce Lee fighting to assemble his Dragon Warriors before the world plunges too far into darkness and shadow. It takes inspiration from the famous Bruce Lee quote, ‘Those who are unaware they are walking in darkness will never seek the light.’”
Bruce Lee Entertainment has partnered with the content platform Shibuya and its co-founder, artist Emily Yang. Shibuya specializes in developing community campaigns and that’s how Bruce Lee Entertainment was able to produce the project independently. Lee decided to partner with Shibuya after seeing its White Rabbit anime short, which was co-created by Yang, who is in the web3 space.
Lee added: “I love Emily and Shibuya’s perspective. They are such creative, hard working, skilled artists with an amazing brand, I just knew that they would be perfect collaborators. The organic way it all came together spoke volumes of our potential collaboration, and it’s been great!”
Yang said: “He connected us and she told me about her House of Lee project which is an anime about the Lee family legacy. I found myself immediately resonating with the narrative as it touches on themes of spirituality, the battle against your inner demons, and so many aspects of the AAPI experience. It being such a personal story, Shannon wanted to really retain creative control and ownership. At Shibuya, our mission is to help creators do just that and so I knew this was something we had to be a part of.”
House of Lee will premiere in 2024. Watch the trailer and tell us what you think!