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Brandon Yu April 19, 2021
Tony Chung (left) as Dennis Song, Jon Prasida as Ryan Shen, Tzi Ma as Jin Shen, Olivia Liang as Nicky Shen and Shannon Dang as Althea Shen in the CW reboot of “Kung Fu.” Photo: Katie Yu , CW
Like everyone else, those behind the new CW series “Kung Fu” distinctly remember the wild sequence of events in March 2020, when the pandemic suddenly halted everything. It was just four days into shooting the show’s pilot, a pause the cast and crew expected to last two weeks but would ultimately remain until October, when production resumed in Vancouver, British Columbia.
âKung Fuâ Rights the Wrongs of Its Ancestor
This gender-flipped martial-arts reboot departs from its 1970s predecessor by having a predominantly Asian-American cast.
Olivia Liang stars as the high-kicking hero of âKung Fu.â âWe just want to make our community proud,â she said.Credit.Lindsay Siu for The New York Times
April 6, 2021, 8:35 a.m. ET
Nearly 50 years after David Carradine rose to fame as an enigmatic, half-Chinese Shaolin monk in the Wild West, âKung Fuâ is returning to network television in a new iteration on the CW.
But this time, the gender-flipped reboot, which will be the first network drama to feature a predominantly Asian-American cast when it premieres Wednesday, is attempting to right some of the wrongs of the original series.