Because who gives a damn about there wasn't any female Shaolin monks! Or renegade female kung Fu experts in the American Wild West? WELL, AT LEAST THE WILD WEST IS NOW REMOVED AND SET APPARENTLY IN MODERN TIMES. ITS 2020 INCLUSIVITY, BABY! DEAL WITH IT, YOU MISOGYNIST PIGS!! sypnosis: Here's the description of the Kung Fu reboot: "A quarter-life crisis causes a young Chinese-American woman (Olivia Liang) to drop out of college and go on a life-changing journey to an isolated monastery in China. But when she returns to find her hometown overrun with crime and corruption, she uses her martial arts skills and Shaolin values to protect her community and bring criminals to justice...all while searching for the assassin who killed her Shaolin mentor and is now targeting her." Kheng Hua Tan, Shannon Dang, Jon Prasida, Eddie Liu, Gavin Stenhouse, Gwendoline Yeo, and Tzi Ma also star. Our newest Kwai Chang Kane, Olivia Liang Kung Fu reboot moves forward with series order at The CW
She is beautiful and I wish her and the series well, but this plotline is old and used up beginning with Bruce Lee in "Fist Of Fury" aka "The Chinese Connection". The original series was a Hit because it was original and David Carradine was such a magnetic actor who played Caine so low key.
This idea is so DUMB (but then ALL CW series are dumb), I predict it will be praised by Woke critics while tanking in the ratings, ending in premature cancellation afterwards.
I agree with both: David Carradine was just an actor pretending to pass as a kung fu master but he was slow as a snail and sucked balls so much they had to make his fights in slow motion. On the other hand the series was groundbreaking and unique so in that regard it was good. I used to hate Carradine mainly for the undeserved credit he got. i was never a fan of the series, but occasionally watched it.
No one knew that back then or knew what Kung Fu was. Yes it seems hokey and silly now - but 50 years that show was the Rage.
The pandering to the "woke" crowd makes it worse for sure, but for me it wouldn't matter if the star was a legit male martial artist who could also act. Fuck reboots.
I watched it at that time, early 70s. Haven't watched it again. The Kung Fu movies craze boosted its initial so-so ratings and things improved when they FINALLY brought a real kung fu expert, Kam Yuen, to choreograph the fight scenes (the first few episodes it was JUDO techniques on display which was plain laughable) AND to double for David Carradine in many shots. Carradine became Yuen's student.
I agree am familiar with Kam - I bought the VHS Tai Chi and Kung Fu Workout Tapes 35 years ago - but it wasn't laughable in 1971 as no one knew what that was.
I don't think anyone really cared about how accurate the fighting was way back then a half century ago. All the kids I went to school with were glued in front of the TV set when that show came on. It was a good family show that emphasized peace and using fighting as only a means of last resort in self defense.
And Kwai Chang Caine became sort of a 70's hippie with his long hair, philosophy, no job and wandering the land.
He portrayed a Shaolin Monk. He was searching for the meaning of life a seeker of the holy way, it was a television show not a martial arts class and the fighting was very restricted by the FCC. The man was an actor, not an MMA fighter. That was half a century ago.
They should remake 'The Last Dragon' And let me stress that Mustard is a cocksucking pedophile who takes horsedicks in his asshole. We know why he moved to Brazil.
Nah that was right for its time, but will not work today. They will probably turn ShoNuff into a white female lesbian and Bruce Leroy into a pansexual black girl who has a crush on another girl and idolizes Jackie Chan.
Nah it was just a western with fortune cookies sayings and some slow motion phony fight scenes at the end of each episode.
A reboot of The Wonder Years is being planned and it will have an all Black cast... Also woke director and part-time pedophile James Gunn (Guardians of the Galaxy) recently clarified that in the 2002 Scooby Doo film the character of Velma was supposed to be portrayed as an out of the closet Lesbian, but the studio blocked that. He is still sour about it.