New 50-episode Biopic of Bruce Lee
China's official China Central Television plans to make an exhaustive 50 million Chinese Yuan (US$7.3 million) biography, "The Legend of Bruce Lee", the country's first movie or TV series on the actor, according to producer Yu Shengli. HK actor Danny Chan of Kung Fu Hustle and Shaolin Soccer is playing Bruce Lee.
Bruce Lee is getting a belated hero's welcome in China, with the country's state broadcaster set to air a 50-part prime-time series on the late kung fu star.
Lee became a chest-thumping source of nationalistic pride to Chinese around the world with his characters who defended the Chinese against oppressors in a series of movies in the early 1970s. But his influence wasn't felt immediately in China, which was then a closed communist country.
Lee's films started surfacing in China on video in the 1980s years after his death in 1973 from swelling of the brain.
Shot in China, Hong Kong, Macau, the U.S., Italy and Thailand over nine months, the series, starting Sunday in prime-time, will air daily on the CCTV's flagship channel, with two episodes airing consecutively every night in a two-hour slot.
Bruce Lee is getting a belated hero's welcome in China, with the country's state broadcaster set to air a 50-part prime-time series on the late kung fu star.
Lee became a chest-thumping source of nationalistic pride to Chinese around the world with his characters who defended the Chinese against oppressors in a series of movies in the early 1970s. But his influence wasn't felt immediately in China, which was then a closed communist country.
Lee's films started surfacing in China on video in the 1980s years after his death in 1973 from swelling of the brain.
Shot in China, Hong Kong, Macau, the U.S., Italy and Thailand over nine months, the series, starting Sunday in prime-time, will air daily on the CCTV's flagship channel, with two episodes airing consecutively every night in a two-hour slot.
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