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Hollywood's pillaging of old TV programs continues......

A Kung Fu movie without Philip Ahn and Keye Luke?

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Well, at least this time around I bet the main character is played by an actual Chinese person. That'll be an improvement.

Really? I always thought the fish-out-of-water quality was an important part of the show. To the monks he was a white child, in the US he was a china-man. The contrast of how the monks accepted him VS how the west did not was a staple of the show.

The character wasn't white, he was hapa. And this was a trait added to the character only after they decided to cast a white actor instead of an Asian one (having passed over, most prominently, Bruce Lee for the role).

So they had a character that was half-Chinese but still cast a white actor (and the character was only half-Chinese because it is easier to whitewash half an Asian rather than an entire one).

There's a reason that they tried to set things right a little bit in the two Kung Fu movies that have previously been made by having Brandon Lee (Bruce Lee's son) play Caine's son. In the first (Kung Fu: The Movie) he plays Caine's unknown son and in the second (Kung Fu: The Next Generation) he plays Caine's grandson.

So yes, the mixed-race nature of Caine is probably ingrained in the story line (though probably for racist reasons) to the point that it won't be removed. But they can still get a Chinese, or at least hapa, actor to play the role.

Wasn't there also some sort of television series set in the present with the descandants of Caine?

yup. weak weaker weakest

Yeah, Kung Fu: The Legend Continues. It is set in modern day LA and David Carradine plays his own grandson. This character has a son that is a detective with the LAPD and they solve crimes together. Very touching and very bad.

I think it was part of the "Action Pack" of syndicated TV shows around that time that included Highlander: The Series (actually somewhat good), Hercules: The Series, Tekwar, and Vanishing Son.