Kung Fu: Donnie Yen to star in 87North’s big-screen reboot

David Leitch’s 87North is getting ready to reboot the classic martial arts/ western series Kung Fu, and it looks like they’ve found their Caine: the one and only Donnie Yen. The press release doesn’t reveal if Yen is actually playing Caine, but it seems like a no-brainer. The series was infamously developed by Bruce Lee as a starring vehicle for himself, only for the role to be cast with David Carradine in the lead eventually. In the end, it worked out fine, with Bruce Lee gaining immortality with his kung-fu movies for Golden Harvest in Hong Kong (which would have never happened had he been tied to a series), while Carradine became iconic as the enigmatic Caine.

In the series, Caine roams the Wild West looking for his long-lost brother. He was a peace-loving protector of the innocent who only fought when provoked. Luckily for action fans, he was provoked A LOT (in every episode, actually). Yen actually played a character in John Wick Chapter 4 that serves as a homage to the character where he played the blind assassin Caine. In the series, Caine wasn’t blind, but his sifu, Master Po (Keye Luke), was.

David Leitch is being eyed to direct the film himself, having recently wrapped The Fall Guy with Ryan Gosling. His 87North partners Kelly McCormick and Guy Danella with join him as producers, while Stephen Chin wrote the script. 

More to come…

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