Baz Luhrmann is in talks with Legendary Pictures to adapt the 1970s cult series "Kung Fu" into a big screen film.
Baz Luhrmann has certainly had an eclectic career as a filmmaker, doing everything from Shakespeare with Romeo + Juliet (1996) to F. Scott Fitzgerald in The Great Gatsby (2013), with a little pop-opera set in a late-19th century brothel in-between, aka Moulin Rouge! (2001).
Now, he is ready to try his hand at Kung Fu.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, the Australian filmmaker has been tapped by Legendary Picture to adapt the 1970s martial arts series, decidedly originating from the U.S., Kung Fu. If the deal is closed, Luhrmann will also give a crack at rewriting xXx scripter Rich Wilkes’ draft.
Kung Fu ran from 1972 to 1975 on ABC and starred David Carradine as Kwai Chang Caine, a Shaolin monk who finds himself in America on a search for his missing brother. Featuring pop culture relics such as the phrase “young grasshopper,” as well as certainly inspiring filmmaker Quentin Tarantino, Kung Fu definitely has a nostalgia factor. According to THR, this new movie adaptation would change the landscape to China with Caine questing after his father.
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