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- No, ‘Kung Fu’ is not based on a true story. It is a reboot/reimagining of the original show of the same name that was co-created by Ed Spielman.
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Apr 6, 2021 · Is Kung Fu Based on a True Story? No, ‘Kung Fu’ is not based on a true story. It is a reboot/reimagining of the original show of the same name that was co-created by Ed Spielman.
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Mar 7, 2018 · While martial arts films can often be outlandish or fantasy-themed, there are many rooted in true stories of kung fu through the ages. They take liberties with the truth sometimes but these...
- Introduction
- Ed Spielman
- Fred Weintraub
- Kung Fu Revived
- David Carradine
- Ah Sahm
- The Warrior
- Conclusion
- References
Myths abound in the martial arts world. One of the most pervasive is the myth that the late Bruce Lee created the “Kung Fu” television series. Airing from 1972 to 1975, this show on the ABC network and produced by Warner Brothers starred the late David Carradine. Portrayed as a half-Chinese, half-American Shaolin monk, Caine wandered about the Amer...
While Bruce Lee was desperately trying to get Hollywood to make its first ever kung fu movie, he received some unexpected East Coast competition from the most unlikely of sources: a young, struggling Jewish comedy writer from Brooklyn named Ed Spielman. Ed wrote and sold jokes to Phyllis Diller and Johnny Carson. But ever since watching Akira Kuros...
The only person to take an interest in the treatment was Fred Weintraub, a forty-one-year-old executive at Warner Bros. [Weintrab would later produce Bruce Lee’s movie Enter the Dragon.] One of his next projects was Spielman and Friedlander’s treatment for The Way of the Tiger, The Sign of the Dragon. “I liked the idea and gave the boys something l...
While Bruce was in Thailand filming The Big Boss, Fred Weintraub had an idea for how to revive Kung Fu— instead of a feature film, turn it into an ABC Movie of the Week. If Warner’s movie division couldn’t appreciate Kung Fu’s brilliance, he’d just give it away like secondhand clothes to its TV people. Weintraub marched the Kung Fu screenplay over ...
Having discarded the Asian half of Caine’s ancestry, they turned to the American side and began auditioning white actors. “David Carradine came in to read and he was just bouncing off the wall. I don’t know what he was on that day, but he was on lots. I called his manager afterwards and said, ‘You know, even if he were fabulous’— and he did actuall...
Despite Tom Kuhn’s concern about Bruce’s accent, Ted Ashley saw star potential in him and, perhaps more important, didn’t want to lose him to Paramount. He was worried Bruce would make Tiger Force once he discovered he wasn’t getting the part of Kwai Chang Caine. In early October 1971, a month before David Carradine was officially cast in Kung Fu, ...
Once Ashley offered Bruce the development deal, Bruce submitted his proposal to Warner Bros. with one alteration. He changed the title from Ah Sahm to The Warrior. According to Linda, Bruce did not sign the contract for Warner’s development deal before he returned to Hong Kong. He wanted to wait and see how The Big Boss did at the box office. If it...
Bruce Lee did not invent the Kung Fu TV series. Ed Spielman invented the character, and the movie treatment he wrote with Howard Friedlander was the origin for the 1972-1975 TV show. Warner Brothers first rejected the movie version, and later produced the television version. Bruce Lee auditioned for the part of Caine, but the studio was reluctant t...
This article is based upon pages 277-280, 321-327, and 573-574 of Matthew Polly’s Bruce Lee: A Life, published by Simon & Schuster, 2018. See https://mattpolly.com/books/bruce-lee-a-life/for more information and details on the paperback edition arriving in June 2019.
Aug 25, 2020 · While the Ip Man movies are based on a real life martial arts hero, it’s no surprise that the movie version would stray here and there from a strictly factual account. Here's a look at what's true and what's not over the four flicks.
- Anya Wassenberg
Six months after moving to Hong Kong, a classmate of Ip's named Lai told him that a friend of Lai's father who was an expert in Kung Fu techniques was living with them, and had offered to have a friendly sparring match with Ip.
Apr 6, 2021 · The Chinese Connection: Bruce Lee Vs. Kwai Chang Caine. For decades, it was rumored that Kung Fu was ripped off from martial arts legend Bruce Lee. Lee had written a treatment that was...
