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Kung Fu TV Series Hops to Big Screen

Warner Bros.-based Legendary Pictures will bring Ed Spielmans 1970s TV series, KUNG FU, to the big screen, VARIETY reports. Spielman and Howard Friedlander, a writer on the original series, have penned the screenplay.

No details about the plot have been announced, however Legendary president of distribution and marketing Scott Mednick said the film would realistically delve into the events on which the TV show was based and the origins of the main characters. David Carradine became a 70s icon in the lead role of Kwai Chang Caine, a Shaolin monk who leaves China for the American Wild West, where he helps the powerless.

Original series debuted as a movie of the week in 1972, spinning off into a weekly series on ABC until 1975. Two additional telepics were made as well as another series in 1993.

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