Olivia Liang stars as Nicky Chen in The CW’s newest remake of Kung Fu, as she learns the martial arts at an isolated Shaolin monastery.
The first trailer for The CW’s upcoming TV series Kung Fu has officially been released.
Debuting on the network’s YouTube channel, the trailer introduces viewers to Nicky Chen (played by Olivia Liang), a young Chinese-American woman who drops out of college to pursue martial arts in an isolated Shaolin monastery. She later returns to her family in San Francisco to take on the gangsters and criminals that plague her city, all while searching for the assassin that killed her mentor.
The trailer highlights Nicky’s strained relationship with her family, who appear to disregard her desire to give up a law career in favor of vigilante justice. The action is also highlighted with impeccably-choreographed fight scenes and gravity-defying wirework.
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The series is a remake of the original 1972 series of the same name. In the latter, the lead was Kwai Chang Caine (played by David Carradine), who wandered the Old West in search of his half-brother. The CW’s Kung Fu is the fourth series to use the name, following the original, the pilot Kung Fu: The Next Generation starring Brandon Lee and Kung Fu: The Legend Continues, in which Carradine played Caine’s grandson in then-modern 1993.
Executive produced by Christina M. Kim, Martin Gero, Greg Berlanti, Sarah Schechter and Warner Bros. TV, Kung Fu stars Olivia Liang, Tzi Ma, Kheng Hua Tan, Tony Chung, Jon Prasida, Shannon Dang, Eddie Liu and Vanessa Kai. The series premieres Wednesday, April 7 at 8 p.m. ET/PT on The CW.
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