Anyone coming to the Christina M. Kim (“Lost”) CW reboot of “Kung Fu” expecting a hazel-eyed David Carradine clone exploring the Old West will be greatly surprised. In 1971, Bruce Lee pitched the unique concept of a Chinese immigrant endowed with supreme martial-arts skills roaming the American West after the 1870s San Francisco Tong Wars. Television executives balked at the idea of an Asian lead, and then cast Carradine a year later in his breakout role as Kwai Chang Caine an orphaned son of an American man who is trained at a Shaolin Monastery in the martial-arts, and ventures to America following the death of his mentor in the original series “Kung Fu.”
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New this Week: Kung Fu, Rebel and Thunder Force
This combination of photos shows promotional art for Kung Fu, a TV series premiering April 7 on The CW, left, Rebel, a TV series premiering April 8 on ABC, center, and the film Thunder Force, a comedy premiering April 9 on Netflix. (The CW/ABC/Netflix via AP) April 05, 2021 - 10:16 AM
Hereâs a collection curated by The Associated Pressâ entertainment journalists of whatâs arriving on TV, streaming services and music platforms this week.
MOVIES
â Against the odds, Melissa McCarthy and her husband, filmmaker Ben Falcone, have managed to put out two movies during the pandemic. Last November came HBO Max s âSuperintelligence, about a regular woman (McCarthy) joined with a megalomaniacal artificial intelligence (voiced by James Corden). This time, in âThunder Force, McCarthy is again thrust into saving the planet. In the Netflix film, McCarthy and Octavia Spence
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Kung Fu couldn t come at a more crucial time. Amid a rise in anti-Asian racism and hate crimes, the timing of the series a modern-day reimagining of the 1970s martial arts drama isn t lost on leading lady Olivia Liang, who plays central heroine Nicky Shen. It s very eerie how relevant it is to what s happening today, Liang acknowledges during a recent phone interview with ET. It s crazy how reflective of the world we re living in today, April 2021, is in the pilot. It doesn t escape us that our show is coming at a very strangely, eerily on-time moment. We talk about it being a reclamation of the original series aired in the 70s, but I think it s also a reclamation of our identity in this country.
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