It’s been over 40 years considering that Bruce Lee’s passing; however, the television collection he first expected in Warrior will subsequently see the light of day for Cinemax. The community launched the display’s first trailer from creator Jonathan Tropper (Banshee) for Tropper Ink Productions. Joining him to executive produce is Justin Lin (The Fast and the Furious) of Perfect Storm Entertainment; adapted from Lee’s writings, Warrior is set inside the Tong Wars of San Francisco’s Chinatown throughout the second half of the nineteenth century. Ah, Sahm (Andrew Koji) emigrates from China to San Francisco under difficult circumstances, becoming a hatchet guy for one of China’s most notorious tongs (Chinese organized crime circle of relatives).
The trailer mixes elements of motion, martial arts, and drama as there are multiple conflicts, a few of the tongs, and neighborhood Whites with racial tensions trying to play a role. In a 1971 interview on The Pierre Berton Show, Lee stated he pitched the idea of a Chinese martial artist handling troubles in the Old West in The Warrior. However, he couldn’t promote the concept to Warner Bros. and Paramount. With the lack of leading roles due to Hollywood’s racism, the legendary founding father of Jeet Kun Do decides to take his talents to Hong Kong to celebrity in movies for Raymond Chow’s Golden Harvest Studios.
Warner Bros. took Lee’s concept and advanced Kung Fu in 1972, running for three seasons, two spinoffs, and a movie, which starred David Carradine, who confirmed that studios exceeded Lee for the function. Ironically, Warner Bros. Saw Lee’s field workplace success in foreign places and pitched Enter the Dragon to him while he made Game of Death. The standard and completed the movie, however, died tragically before the movie’s release in 1973. Warrior stars Koji, Kieran Bew, Olivia Cheng, Dianne Doan, Dean Jagger, Langley Kirkwood, Hoon Lee, Christian McKay, Joe Taslim, Jason Tobin, Joanna Vanderham, Tom Weston-Jones, and Perry Yung. How much of Lee’s thoughts will be retained for Tropper’s collection remains visible to viewers will get a chance to discover for themselves when Warrior debuted on April 5, 2019.
