The biopic of Bruce Lee, one of Hollywood's most intriguing and mysterious individuals, will be helmed by Academy Award-winning filmmaker Ang Lee, with Mason Lee, Ang Lee's own son, cast in the starring role.
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One of the key factors that attracted Ang Lee to the project was Bruce Lee's untimely death in 1973 at the age of 32. Bruce Lee was a martial arts and action movie hero at the time and attained unparalleled levels of fame in both Hong Kong and the United States. This won't be the first film based on or at least partially inspired by Bruce Lee's life, since Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story, The Legend of Bruce Lee, and Birth of the Dragon all came before it due to the Bruceploitation movement that was released following his passing.
According to Deadline, Ang Lee will base his film on a screenplay that was previously written by Jean Castelli, Alex Law, Mabel Cheung, and Wells Tower and was adapted by Dan Futterman (Capote). After hearing the news, the filmmaker described Bruce Lee as "a bridge between East and West who introduced Chinese Gung Fu to the world," adding that he had always been attracted by the mythology of martial arts' life narrative and the values of discipline and perseverance it reflected.
Mason Lee may not resemble Bruce Lee quite as much as some of the other actors who have played him in the past, but his filmography does include a mixture of American and Hong Kong productions, even though he primarily stars in the latter, particularly in the recent years as his last Hollywood credits came in his father's Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk. Sony's 3000 Pictures will produce this new Bruce Lee movie, which is currently without a working title.
Ironically, Bruce Lee only got to experience the popularity of The Wrecking Crew, Fist of Fury, and The Way of the Dragon before his death. Enter the Dragon, The Green Hornet, and both Games of Death movies were all released posthumously. Although Bruce Lee's cause of death is still unknown, some recent study has gone so far as to hypothesise that cerebral oedema that claimed his life may have been brought on by a combination of excessive water consumption and his severe diet and exercise regimens.
Considering that one of Life of Pi filmmaker Ang Lee's most well-known and influential films is the definitive martial arts masterwork Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, few people should be concerned about the director's suitability to depict Bruce Lee's life on screen.
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