KUNG-FU Is Getting a Female-Led Reimagining at The CW
The CW is developing a reimagining of the classic 1970s David Carradine TV series Kung-Fu. This new version will have a female lead and comes from the team who previously developed Blindspot. Christina M. Kim will write and executive produce the series. Her other credits include consulting producer on Hawaii Five-O and co-executive producer on NCIS: Los Angeles. She started her TV career as a story editor on Lost.
The original series was created by Ed Spielman, and in this reimagined version of the Kung Fu series “a quarter-life crisis causes a young Chinese-American woman 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.”
Well, I’ll give it a shot. If this actually ends up being a good series with a solid story and character development, I’ll keep watching. Some awesomely choreographed fight sequences wouldn’t hurt either. At the same time, why reimagine the classic Kung-Fu series? I’d be much more open to an original series with an original story filled with original ideas. But Hollywood doesn’t like taking chances on original ideas.
Greg Berlanti, Martin Gero, and Sarah Schechter are set to executive produce the hour-long series as well. What do you all think about The CW’s new take on Kung-Fu?
Source: Deadline