Bruce Lee's classic "Enter the Dragon" to be remade

[Mavs Man]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070816/ap_en_mo/people_bruce_lee

HONG KONG - Bruce Lee's classic 1973 film, "Enter the Dragon," will be remade by Warner Bros.

The remake, to be titled "Awaken the Dragon," will be written and directed by Kurt Sutter, producer of "The Shield" TV series. It will be released by Warner Independent Pictures.

In an e-mail Thursday to The Associated Press, Warner Bros. publicist Laura Kim said the movie will tell the story of an FBI agent who investigates a Shaolin monk and underground kung ** fight clubs.

China's Shaolin Temple is renowned for its martial-arts tradition.

Kim declined to reveal the casting choices, budget or shooting schedule.

Lee played a kung ** fighter who infiltrates an island occupied by a rogue martial arts artist in "Enter the Dragon."

He died in 1973, at 32, from swelling of the brain.

Lee was known for movies in which he portrayed characters that defend the Chinese and the working class from oppressors.

He was born in San Francisco but grew up in Hong Kong, where he made his name as an actor.

 

[BrAinPaiNt]

I hate that hollywood is so unoriginal anymore that they have to remake old movies or tv shows, cartoons and video games into movies.

With that said, I hope they make a decent remake.

Really besides Bruce in the Fight scenes many of his movies are just flat out horrible. I mean they are cool for the b movie mentality but really they were bad directing, acting and other areas.

I watched enter the dragon again not long ago and was just laughing at how bad the acting, directing and the writing was.

Just the fight scenes with bruce were the only good things about the movie.

Maybe they will actually do a better version similar to how Dawn of the Dead did. I felt it was one of the few recent remakes that was better than the original.

 

[Mavs Man]

I hate that hollywood is so unoriginal anymore that they have to remake old movies or tv shows, cartoons and video games into movies.

With that said, I hope they make a decent remake.

Really besides Bruce in the Fight scenes many of his movies are just flat out horrible. I mean they are cool for the b movie mentality but really they were bad directing, acting and other areas.

I watched enter the dragon again not long ago and was just laughing at how bad the acting, directing and the writing was.

Just the fight scenes with bruce were the only good things about the movie.

Maybe they will actually do a better version similar to how Dawn of the Dead did. I felt it was one of the few recent remakes that was better than the original.

Unoriginal Hollywood remakes are all about money. The low budget stuff is usually original since it can afford to be. If it hits, it makes the studios money. If it doesn't, then at least they didn't lose much.

Big budget movies most times at least break even, considering not only box office ticket sales but also overseas markets, DVD sales, TV contracts, merchandising (especially for franchises like Spider-Man, Transformers, etc.).

It's the mid-budget movies ($60-100 million) that really suffer. That's where the big bombs are made (Gigli, Adventures of Pluto Nash, to name a few).

If they could remake any of Bruce Lee's movies to the level they improved the recent Dawn of the Dead movie, I would be very impressed.

 

[Boom]

If they are going to remake a Lee movie, they should do Game of Death. That could have been a great flick without the horrid Lee stand-in and superimposed faces.