MORTAL KOMBAT Star Ludi Lin Join's The CW's KUNG FU Reboot Series
Ludi Lin, the actor who plays Liu Kang in the upcoming Mortal Kombat movie, is set to join The CW’s reboot of the classic martial arts series Kung Fu. He joins the previously cast Olivia Liang, who is taking on the lead role.
The series follows Nicky (Liang) “who is in a middle of a quarter-life crisis. This causes her to drop out of college and go on a life-changing journey to an isolated monastery in China. But when she returns to San Francisco, she finds her hometown is overrun with crime and corruption and her own parents Jin (Tzi Ma) and Mei-Li (Kheng Hua Tan) are at the mercy of a powerful Triad.”
As a result, she will rely on her tech-savvy sister Althea (Shannon Dang) and her fiancé Dennis (Tony Chung), pre-med brother Ryan (Jon Prasida), Assistant District Attorney and ex-boyfriend Evan (Gavin Stenhouse), and new love interest Henry (Eddie Liu) as well as her martial arts skills and Shaolin values to protect her community and bring criminals to justice…all while searching for the ruthless assassin Zhilan (Yvonne Chapman) who killed her Shaolin mentor Pei-Ling (Vanessa Kai) and is now targeting her.
Lin will be playing a character named Kerwin, who is heir to the billionaire Tan family fortune. He is described as “dashing, handsome, physically fit, and impossibly charismatic”. It’s said that he “puts on a suave playboy act to the world but is driven by a deep hurt and antipathy towards his father. An erotically charged partnership with Zhilan will provide Kerwin with just the path to revenge (and vindication) he has been waiting for.”
Christina M. Kim and Roberto Berens serve as executive producers and co-showrunners of the series.