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The SF-set reboot of 'Kung Fu' on The CW flips the classic martial arts show's gender roles


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The SF-set reboot of 'Kung Fu' on The CW flips the classic martial arts show's gender roles
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Olivia Liang as Nicky Shen in "Kung Fu" on The CW.Kailey Schwerman/The CW
In a modern reimagining of Ed Spielman’s hit series that starred David Carradine, “Kung Fu” is returning to network television with two unprecedented changes: The lead is a Chinese American woman and the cast is predominantly Asian American, a rarity in the landscape of network television dramas.
The gender-flipped reboot chronicles the journey of Nicky Shen (Olivia Liang), a young woman who, after going through a quarter-life crisis, decides to drop out of university and take a life-altering journey to a remote Chinese monastery. When Nicky returns to San Francisco three years later, she discovers that her hometown has been overrun with crime and corruption and that the local Chinatown, where her parents Jin (Tzi Ma) and Mei-Li (Kheng Hua Tan) own a family restaurant, has been at the mercy of a powerful triad. She’s forced to use her martial arts skills to protect her community, while searching for the assassin who killed her Shaolin mentor.

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Review: Strangely drawn to Asian American stereotypes, 'Kung Fu' stumbles out of gate


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Greg Berlanti accepts the 'Patron of the Artists Award' onstage during SAG-AFTRA Foundation's 4th Annual Patron of the Artists Awards at Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts on November 7, 2019 in Beverly Hills, California. (Photo by Vivien Killilea/Getty Images for SAG-AFTRA Foundation/TNS)
Review: Strangely drawn to Asian American stereotypes, ‘Kung Fu’ stumbles out of gate
Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times, (TNS)
What’s in a name? The potential to make new deals out of old intellectual property, for one. “Kung Fu,” which premieres Wednesday on the CW, is related by contracts and corporate history to “Kung Fu,” the 1970s David Carradine series about a half-Chinese Shaolin monk roaming the Old West; what they have in common is a main character schooled in martial arts whose mentor is killed. And, apart from a title and a screen credit for Ed Spielman, who created the original series – Christina M. Kim, whose credits include “Blindspot” and “Lost,” is the new version’s showrunner – nothing else.

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Review: Strangely drawn to Asian American stereotypes, 'Kung Fu' stumbles out of gate


What's in a name? The potential to make new deals out of old intellectual property, for one. "Kung Fu," which premieres Wednesday on the CW, is related by contracts and corporate history to "Kung Fu," the 1970s David Carradine series about a half-Chinese Shaolin monk roaming the Old West; what they have in common is a main character schooled in martial arts whose mentor is killed. And, apart from a title and a screen credit for Ed Spielman, who created the original series — Christina M. Kim, whose credits include "Blindspot" and "Lost," is the new version's showrunner — nothing else.
In the latest adventure series from Arrowverse honcho Greg Berlanti, Olivia Liang plays Nicky Shen, who spin-kicks things off with a narrated quick trip charting her progress from Harvard college girl to kung fu fighter. Realizing that the "cultural tour" of China on which she's been sent by her mother is just a dodge to find her a nice Chinese boy, Nicky bolts, jumping into the back of a truck belonging to Pei-Ling Zhang (Vanessa Kai). "You make the path that you live," says Pei-Ling, who takes Nicky up to the all-female Shaolin monastery she oversees. "These women were warriors," thinks Nicky, watching the lady monks go through their martial arts paces and poses, and signs on.

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With Asian American stereotypes, CW's 'Kung Fu' misses mark


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What’s in a name? The potential to make new deals out of old intellectual property, for one. “Kung Fu,” which premieres Wednesday on the CW, is related by contracts and corporate history to “Kung Fu,” the 1970s David Carradine series about a half-Chinese Shaolin monk roaming the Old West; what they have in common is a main character schooled in martial arts whose mentor is killed. And, apart from a title and a screen credit for Ed Spielman, who created the original series — Christina M. Kim, whose credits include “Blindspot” and “Lost,” is the new version’s showrunner — nothing else.

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'Kung Fu' Rights the Wrongs of Its Ancestor - The New York Times


‘Kung Fu’ 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 “Kung Fu.” “We just want to make our community proud,” 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, “Kung Fu” 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.

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