Kung Fu is officially being reimagined by The CW. The show, based on the 1970s series starring David Carradine, is being developed by the Blindspot pair of Christina M. Kim and Martin Gero. Kim will be writing the series and executive producing the show with creator Martin Gero. Greg Berlanti and Sarah Schechter also serve as executive producers alongside Warner Bros. TV.
This new version of the series will follow a young Chinese American woman in her mid-twenties, having dropped out of college to go on a journey that changes her life as she visits an isolated monastery in China. When she returns home, however, she is dismayed to discover that her hometown has become riddled with crime and corruption. Using her newly developed martial arts skills and Shaolin values, she sets out to protect her community and bring law back to her streets as she hunts down the assassin who killed her Shaolin mentor.
There have been two separate attempts to reboot Kung Fu for modern audiences, both featuring a female lead. They were in development at Fox for the past two seasons courtesy of Berlanti Productions and Warner Bros. TV. Neither version went to pilot.
Kim and Gero will executive produce this production under Gero’s Quinn’s House Production Company, which produces in association with Berlanti Prods. and Warner Bros. TV.
Kim has been a part of Blindspot since its first season. Her other credits include Hawaii Five-O, NCIS: Los Angeles and Lost. Gero, who also works on Blindspot, is executive producing The Service. He has previously worked on Stargate Atlantis, Stargate SG-1 and Stargate Universe.
(via Deadline)