Bruce Lee Is Getting a New Biopic From Ang Lee

Virtually 50 years after his dying, Bruce Lee stays an icon of cinema and martial arts. Individuals nonetheless watch his basic motion films, they nonetheless purchase merchandise emblazoned together with his likeness, and they’re nonetheless fascinated by his philosophies and teachings. And folks proceed to make new artwork about him — together with an upcoming biopic directed by Ang Lee, and starring Ang Lee’s son Mason Lee within the lead function.

Ang Lee’s acclaimed movies embody Eat Drink Man Lady, Sense and Sensibility, The Ice Storm, Lust, Warning, Brokeback Mountain, Lifetime of Pi, and, after all, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, one of many nice martial arts movies ever made. A beforehand written screenplay is now being reworked by Dan Futterman, who penned the scripts for Foxcatcher and Capote.

This won’t be the primary film made about Bruce Lee. Removed from it. Even when you don’t depend the numerous “Bruceploitation” films made after Lee’s dying (the place different actors adopted the look and mannerisms of Lee in an try to capitalize on his persevering with reputation), there’s additionally Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story, which starred Jason Scott Lee. The movie retold Bruce Lee’s life story with some supernatural components.

Only a few years in the past, there was Delivery of the Dragon, starring Philip Ng as a younger Bruce Lee through the years he developed his trademark preventing model.

And naturally Bruce Lee appeared in a small however controversial supporting function (performed by Mike Moh) in Quentin Tarantino’s As soon as Upon a Time in Hollywood. The scene, the place Lee will get right into a battle with Brad Pitt’s stuntman character, garnered an extraordinarily detrimental response from Bruce Lee’s daughter.

In a press release, Ang Lee had this to say about why he needed to make his personal Bruce Lee biography.

Accepted as neither absolutely American nor Totally Chinese language, Bruce Lee was a bridge between East and West who launched Chinese language Gung Fu to the world, a scientist of fight and an iconic performing artist who revolutionized each the martial arts and motion cinema. I really feel compelled to inform the story of this good, distinctive human being who yearned for belonging, possessed great energy in a 135-pound-frame, and who, by means of tireless onerous work, made unimaginable goals into actuality.

The movie might be distributed by Sony Photos.