'THE WARRIOR' EPIC SERIES
INSPIRED BY BRUCE LEE
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| Beowulf's Kieran Bew leads the cast |
Not much to report today, except some really nice casting news for new period set action series
THE WARRIOR, a Bruce Lee inspired martial arts television saga by
Cinemax!
Fast and Furious Justin Lin will produce the Tong Wars ten episode series, inspired by the writings and work of martial arts icon Bruce Lee!
THE STORY OF THE WARRIOR
will be set against the backdrop of the
brutal Tong Wars in San Francisco’s Chinatown in the late 1800s! The
cast is led by
Andrew Koji as Ah Sahm, a
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| Joe Taslim is a kung fu master! |
martial arts prodigy who
travels from China to San Francisco and ends up becoming a hatchet man
for the most powerful tong in Chinatown!
Kieran Bew will play Officer “Big Bill” O’Hara, a hard drinking Irish cop charged with forming a Chinatown squad and
Tom Weston Jones will be Richard Lee, a transplanted Southerner and rookie cop!
Olivia Cheng will appear as Ah Toy, Chinatown’s most accomplished courtesan and madame, while
Jason Tobin is Young Jun, the hard partying son of a powerful tong boss.
Dianne Doan
will play Mai Ling, a beautiful and ruthless Chinese woman who, through
sheer force of will, has achieved a position of power in one of the
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| You watched Tom Weston Jones in Dickensian & in BBC's upcoming Troy |
tongs!
Dean Jagger will be Dan Leary, the unofficial godfather of the Irish community of San Francisco and leader of the Workingmen’s party.
Christian McKay will govern San Francisco as Mayor Samuel Blake and
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| Game of Thrones' Dean Jagger will be an Irish ruffian! |
Joanna Vanderham will portray Penelope Blake, the aristocratic heir to a rail road fortune trapped in a loveless marriage to the mayor!
Joe Taslim is Li Yong, a tong Lieutenant and kung fu master while
Langley Kirkwood will
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| Dominion's Langley Kirkwood will be an ambitious deputy major! |
be Walter Buckley, a Civil War veteran and Deputy Mayor with his own political aspirations!
Perry Yung is Father Jun, the leader of the most powerful tong in Chinatown.
I forgot all about Cinemax. Does anyone even watch them anymore?
ReplyDeleteI think they usually have action series, not that I ever watched any of their dramas. They do usually have great taste in casting male leads :)
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