Ang Lee’s Bruce Lee Biopic

[Sawyer]

Gonna get nepotism accusations, but I trust Ang Lee as a filmmaker too much to think he’s doing this only to boost his own kid.

 

[Pennywise]

 

[Pennywise]

Whoops, you made a thread before I did. My bad!

Either way, I’m down for this.

 

[Shinobi Shaw]

Hmmm...

Can his son act? I don't think I've seen him in anything.

 

[Stringer]

Cast Solomon Hughes as Kareem. Let's make it a shared universe.

 

[Pennywise]

Hmmm...

Can his son act? I don't think I've seen him in anything.

The most notable thing he was in is Hangover Part 2.

Haven’t seen that in years.

 

[TheVileOne]

Gonna get nepotism accusations, but I trust Ang Lee as a filmmaker too much to think he’s doing this only to boost his own kid.

They got Ice Cube's son to play his dad in Straight Outta Compton.

 

[Pennywise]

 

[Drizzle]

Hmmm...

Can his son act? I don't think I've seen him in anything.

I don't know but it's like Hollywood heard the nepo baby conversation and responded by doubling down on nepotism.

 

[Pennywise]

With your upcoming Bruce Lee film that you’re working on with your son, Mason Lee, I’m curious if it will be shot in 120fps like your previous two films?
Ang Lee: I’m not going to with this movie. But I’m going to bring something new to the action and the way to do action. But no, I don’t break the frame rate this time that way. With 120fps you’re really challenging viewers’ habits and the industry because history is built for the 24 frames. So that’s a holistic ecosystem of the movie world. Someday we’ll create something new, but not with this movie. I’m going to break some other rules though, like

 

[Shinobi Shaw]

I don't know but it's like Hollywood heard the nepo baby conversation and responded by doubling down on nepotism.

Seriously.

But nepo babies are a tale as old as time. Hopefully his son brings it because The Master deserves nothing less.

 

[Pennywise]

I remember reading an article from Deadline that Mason was training in Asia for three years, so he’ll probably put the effort in physically.

Still haven’t seen his work, but hope he does well!

 

[CaptainWagner]

I don't know but it's like Hollywood heard the nepo baby conversation and responded by doubling down on nepotism.

That discourse was the most unbearable thing to happen on Film Twitter in a while. Such dumb stuff. I'm going to lose it if this movie brings it up again. At least this is ACTUAL nepotism, I guess, not "Joe Schmo has an second-cousin twice-removed in the industry so they're a nepo baby, point and shame!"

 

[Drizzle]

Seriously.

But nepo babies are a tale as old as time. Hopefully his son brings it because The Master deserves nothing less.

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That discourse was the most unbearable thing to happen on Film Twitter in a while. Such dumb stuff. I'm going to lose it if this movie brings it up again. At least this is ACTUAL nepotism, I guess, not "Joe Schmo has an second-cousin twice-removed in the industry so they're a nepo baby, point and shame!"

It really did feel like, "You guys are just discovering this now?"

 

[Pennywise]

https://collider.com/bruce-lee-biopic-enter-the-dragon-influence-producer-comments/

At TIFF for his latest movie Pain Hustlers, Grey spoke with our Editor-in-Chief Steve Weintraub that while he was working with Ang Lee on the Bruce Lee biopic, the duo realized that the centerpiece of the Lee’s story had to be the final movie that the martial arts legend starred in, Enter the Dragon. He explained:

“What we realized was that the time period of Bruce's life around the making of ‘Enter the Dragon’ was a moment where so many different thematic threads were connecting, and there was a confluence of an incredible amount of drama and conflict in his life. So, we use that as sort of an axis around which to revolve his world. From there, I think the director would say it's a kaleidoscopic journey through his life. It has a traditional non-narrative structure and is really thematically and experientially connected.”