Your training begins next month. That's when The CW will premiere the long awaited Kung Fu reboot series. It's been over a year since we found out that the series would be female led and set in the modern day. Now Olivia Liang is finally here and ready to clean up the streets. Take a look at the first trailer.
This is a nice sample of what will hopefully be an action packed series. It looks like we'll also see some of her training too, which should be interesting. Obviously, this wouldn't be the first series from The CW to incorporate flashbacks. It also looks like her training is far from over when she arrives home. It also doesn't look like home will be exactly thrilled about the new path that she wants to take her life.
On the surface, it looks like Kung Fu will be a nice change of pace in The CW line-up that is full of a lot of supernatural and a lot of superheroes. Nothing wrong with that, of course, but it's nice to get something different. We'll find out when the series premieres Wednesday, April 7th at 8pm on The CW.
Here is the full synopsis and casting info from The CW: "A quarter-life crisis causes a young Chinese American woman, Nicky Shen (Olivia Liang), to drop out of college and go on a life-changing journey to an isolated monastery in China. But when she returns to San Francisco, she finds her hometown is overrun with crime and corruption and her own parents Jin (Tzi Ma) and Mei-Li (Kheng Hua Tan) are at the mercy of a powerful Triad. Nicky will rely on her tech-savvy sister Althea (Shannon Dang) and Althea’s fiancé Dennis (Tony Chung), pre-med brother Ryan (Jon Prasida), Assistant District Attorney and ex-boyfriend Evan (Gavin Stenhouse), and new love interest Henry (Eddie Liu) as well as her martial arts skills and Shaolin values to protect her community and bring criminals to justice…all while searching for the ruthless assassin who killed her Shaolin mentor Pei-Ling (Vanessa Kai) and is now targeting her."
KUNG FU stars Olivia Liang as Nicky Shen, Kheng Hua Tan as Mei-Li Shen, Shannon Dang as Althea Shen, Eddie Liu as Henry Yan, Gavin Stenhouse as Evan Hartley, Vanessa Kai as Pei-Ling Zhang, Tony Chung as Dennis Soong and Tzi Ma as Jin Shen.
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