After many years of working as a stunt double and as an action scene coordinator, David Leitch went to the other side of the cameras to debut as a director and put all his knowledge and experience at the service of great action movie successes like John Wick, Atomic Blonde and Deadpool 2.
The public’s endorsement and appreciation of these films has undoubtedly motivated this director, to now have the audacity and try to remake Enter The Dragon, perhaps the most acclaimed and well-known classic from Bruce Lee, his latest film ( it premiered six days after his death) and simply one of the best representatives of action movies and martial arts.
According to the report from Variety, Warner Bros. studios has the intention of making this adaptation of the 1973 film in which Bruce Lee plays a shaolin martial artist who investigates a powerful criminal leader and infiltrates the martial arts tournament.
The film, a Hong Kong-American co-production directed by Robert Clouse , combined martial arts with the then-nascent genre Blaxploitation, and was a great international success that many films later tried to imitate or replicate, with the disadvantage of not having Bruce Lee as the protagonist.
Obviously, this is the same inconvenience that this modern remake will have, a project that has been rumored for a long time and for which directors like Kurt Sutter, Spike Lee and Brett Ratner had been mentioned to accomplish.
Some fans are not too happy about this idea. Asian-Americans took to Twitter and shared their opinion on this matter.
Um, director Justin Lin only has an entire blog and YouTube channel called YOMYOMF, inspired by Bruce Lee.
h/t @CinnabonMonster https://t.co/r3PtuhZAqu— Nancy Wang Yuen (@nancywyuen) July 23, 2018
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— William Yu 유규호 (@its_willyu) July 23, 2018
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Tomb Raider actor and AMC’s Into the Badlands Daniel Wu, also expressed his opinion about the remake, noting that the original was all “about Bruce Lee’s incredible charisma which cannot be replicated.”
That is one movie that should not be touched because it wasn’t about story, it was about Bruce Lee’s incredible charisma which cannot be replicated. https://t.co/X5Zep6HTTN
— Daniel Wu (@danielwuyanzu) July 24, 2018
At the moment, David Leicht is working on the Fast & Furious spin-off with Dwayne Johnson and Jason Statham , Hobbs & Shaw, and has confirmed his presence doing the adaptation of the video game Tom Clancy’s The Division.
