The CW's KUNG FU Reboot Series Casts Olivia Liang in the Lead Role
Earlier this year we learned that The CW was developing a female-led reboot of the classic 1970s David Carradine TV series Kung-Fu. We’ve now learned that the new series will star Olivia Liang. I’m not really familiar with the actress, but she’s appeared in The CW’s Legacies, Hulu’s Into the Dark, AMC’s Grey’s Anatomy, and Netflix’s One Day at a Time. This will be her first lead role, though.
The Kung Fu reboot was created by Ed Spielman. In the new version, “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, Nicky 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.”
I’m not completely sold on Kung Fu getting rebooted by The CW, but I’ll give it a chance! Maybe it’ll end up being a decent show.
Greg Berlanti, Martin Gero, and Sarah Schechter are set to executive produce the hour-long series as well.
Source: Variety