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The CW has released the first trailer for their upcoming series remake of ‘Kung Fu‘, which is set to premiere on the US broadcaster (no UK broadcaster announced yet).
A quarter-life crisis causes a young Chinese-American woman, Nicky Shen (Olivia Liang – ‘Legacies’, Grey’s Anatomy’), 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 (Tzi Ma – ‘Wu Assassins’, ‘Veep’, and Kheng Hua Tan – ‘Marco Polo’, ‘Crazy Rich Asians’) are at the mercy of a powerful Triad.
Nicky will rely on her tech-savvy sister (Shannon Dang – ‘So Foreign’, ‘The Romanoffs’), pre-med brother (Jon Prasida – ‘Tomorrow, When the War Began’), Assistant District Attorney and ex-boyfriend (Gavin Stenhouse – ‘9-1-1’, ‘Black Mirror’), and new love interest (Eddie Liu – ‘Never Have I Ever’, ‘Silicon Valley’) 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 (Gwendoline Yeo – ‘Star Wars: The Clone Wars’, ‘American Crime’) who killed her Shaolin mentor and is now targeting her.
Inspired by the original series created by Ed Spielman, ‘Kung Fu’ is from Warner Bros Television in association with Quinn’s House and Berlanti Productions, with writer/executive producer Christina M. Kim (‘Blindspot’, ‘Lost’) and executive producers Martin Gero (‘Blindspot’), Greg Berlanti and Sarah Schechter (‘Arrowverse’, ‘Riverdale’).
The drama is loosely based on the original ‘Kung Fu’ series which ran from 1972 to 1975 and starred David Carradine as Kwai Chang Caine, a Shaolin monk who treks around 1880s old west America in search of his half-brother, armed only with his skill in martial arts and Taoist wisdom.
‘Kung Fu‘ Season 1 is set to premiere April 07, 2021, at 8pm on The CW in the USA. As I mentioned at the top of the article, there is currently no UK broadcaster for it, so it remains to be seen if this gets picked up here, or ends up being added to the pile of CW shows which have yet to land on this side of the ocean (see ‘In the Dark’, ‘Legacies’, ‘All American’, ‘Nancy Drew’…) We’ll let you know if we hear more.
