After snatching rocks and taming the West on the 70s show KUNG FU (and again on some made-for-TV movies, and then again on a syndicated series in the 90s), clean-skulled martial artist Kwai Chang Caine is wandering to theaters courtesy of Warner Bros.
His Shaolin master behind the camera will apparently now be Max Makowski, replacing the yin-yang team of the Hughes Brothers (DEAD PRESIDENTS) who were previously attached. The flick is already searching for a new Caine, so it looks like Makowski is a permanent fixture in the director’s chair. He was recently scheduled to take on a different martial arts discipline — ninjutsu — with a remake of the Japanese action-romance SHINOBI, but that seems to have stepped into shadow for the moment.
The original KUNG FU series starred David Carradine (who somehow won the role over Bruce Lee) as a punching monk turned altruistic vagabond (or as some might call him, “a bum”) who meanders across America using mastery of open-handed combat to protect the innocent and smack the shit out of gun-wielding villains.