A new series is found in the works based on the books that inspired Leyen2000 Classic ”Crushing tiger, hidden dragon“Told an individual with knowledge of the project IndieWire.
The series is under development from Sony Pictures Television and is intended to be released through Amazon Prime Video. Although Amazon has been good at breaking IP from the MGM Library, it was Sony Pictures Classics who originally released Lees Film.
Jason Ning, a producer at “Lucifer”, is the author and the executive producer on the new “Squeeze tigerThe Hidden Dragon “series, which will be based on five book series from Crane-Iron Pentalogy by author Wang Dulu.
The film was set in the imperialist China of the 1800s and followed two master warriors and their forbidden love after the invaluable green fate was stolen by a master thief. Here is the official summary of the series:
In the midst of fantastic landscapes and spectacular action, ‘Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon’ Shu Lien and Mu Bai, two star-crossed warriors, follows when they fight between forbidden love and modernity’s drag-who are captured between preserving their lifestyle or embrace a future together. Based on the Can-Iron Pentalogy Book Series by Wang Dulu.
Ronald D. Moore is also an executive producer on behalf of his high ship production banner, and non-writing EPS is Johnny Levin and Roy Lee for Vertigo Entertainment, Maril Davis for Tall Ship Productions and Hong Wang and Qin Wang for Wang Dulu Estate. Ying Lou acts as co-echo-producer.
Lee’s “Crouching Tiger” was a safe and remains acclaimed as one of the best martial arts and Wuxia films from at least 2000s, if not all the time. The movie was nominated to the best pictureearns 10 nominations and won four. It held the record for the international film with the most Oscar nominations ever until this year When “Emilia Pérez” broke it. The film also collected $ 213.9 million all over the world and created a sequel, “Sword of Destiny” 2016, where star Michelle Yeoh recalled his role from the original. The original movie played Yeoh, Chow Yun-Fat, Zhang Ziyi and Chang Chen.
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Deadline first reported the news.
