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The cast members of The CW's Kung Fu applaud their show's representation of Asian-American culture. Says actor Tony Chung: "Our show is the exposure our community needs to bring a familiarity to the Asian-American profile."
Stargirl, Kung Fu Renewed at The CW
Months after rumors started circulating on social media that The CW was set to renew
Stargirl for a third season, the deal is done. Today that network not only announced a third season for
Stargirl showing faith in the not-yet-aired second season of the fan-favorite superhero drama from executive producers Geoff Johns and Rob Hardy but a second season for freshman hit
Kung Fu. Since The CW is working with super-producers Greg Berlanti and Sarah Schechter on both projects, the pair of high-profile renewals mark a real good news, everyone! moment behind the scenes at the network.
‘Kung Fu’ Star Olivia Liang “Kick-Ass, Strong Female Asian Lead”
by 2Paragraphs in Culture | April 7, 2021
The New CW series
Kung Fu is a gender-flipped martial-arts reboot of the 1970s series Kung Fu starring the late
David Carradine. The protagonist of the 2021 series is a young Chinese American woman named Nicky Shen (
Olivia Liang). She dropped out of college and took a life-changing journey to China, where she spent her time at an isolated monastery, studying martial arts. When she returns to the States, she’s disappointed to find her hometown of San Francisco overrun with crime and corruption.
Nicky uses her martial arts skills to protect her community and bring criminals to justice including the assassin who killed her Shaolin mentor.
New Kung Fu Reboot Poster Released
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Things are steadily getting back to a sense of normal in terms of The CW s roster of original programming. Many of the networks Arrowverse series are in full swing, as are non-comics offerings such as
Walker and
All American, and soon, the highly-anticipated reboot of
Kung Fu will make its debut as well. A reinvention of the David Carradine-starring series from the 1970s, the new, female-led series will debut on the network on Wednesday, April 7th and now, The CW has released a brand new poster for the series.
This latest poster is the second for the upcoming series and while it has some of the elements of the previously-released poster, this one features the series debut date as well as series star Olivia Liang front and center. You can check it out for yourself below.