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Jason Ning and Ronald D. Moore are developing Crouching Tiger , Hidden Dragon as a boob tube serial for Sony and Amazon ’s Prime Video .
Because Hollywood and the well out services will result no IP alone , Crouching Tiger , Hidden Dragonis currently being germinate as a television series byJason NingandRonald D. MooreforPrime Videoand Sony Pictures Entertainment . Yes , we ’re indisputable you ’re excited by this news . Whoop - de - doo . The original Oscar - advance 2000 feature picture , directed byAng Lee , introduced westerly mainstream audiences to the wuxia literary genre for the first time . Even martial arts movie devotee have follow them since the 1960s .
bow Tiger , Hidden Dragonfollows Shu Lien and Mu Bai , two star - crossed warriors ( played byMichelle YeohandChow Yun Fatin the film ) , as they shinny between forbidden sexual love and the pull of modernism — caught between preserving their way of life or embracing a future together . It was an adjustment of a section of the Crane - Iron Pentalogy five - book serial publication byWang Dulu , which run for multiple volumes and totaled over a thousand varlet as it covered a multigenerational martial arts saga . The books were publish between 1938 and 1944 beforeJin Yongbegan his career as the most pop and most wide adapt author of wuxia fabrication . Wang published over 90 novel between 1925 and 1949 . Unfortunately , none of his novels are translated into English .
TheCrouching Tiger , Hidden DragonTV serial publication began ontogenesis a few years ago when Sony regained the rightfulness to the books through a first - look deal with Vertigo and tapped Ning to adjust it as part of an overall deal . Moore came on board last year after returning to Sony TV with his novel overall pile . The martial art saga is one of two major Sony IP - free-base TV series projection Moore is developing for Sony and Prime Video next to his version of the Sony Playstation sole telecasting gameGod of War . Executive producing theCrouching Tiger , Hidden Dragonseries are Ning , Moore andMaril Davisof Tall Ship Productions , Johnny Levin , Roy Leeof Vertigo Entertainment , as well asHong WangandQin Wangfor the Wang Dulu Estate . Ying Louis co - executive producing . Hopefully , the serial will annul an American perspective , which would take chances exoticizing the Formosan ethnic details rather than offering actual legitimacy .
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