CROUCHING TIGER, HIDDEN DRAGON Series Adaptation In Development At Prime Video
There’s been a new Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon series in the works in the last several years. Sony Pictures Television nabbed the rights to the books at the time through a first look deal with Vertigo Entertainment, and have since brewed enough momentum these days with word that Prime Video will be home to the upcoming wuxia episodic.
Amidst stunning landscapes and spectacular action, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon follows Shu Lien and Mu Bai, two star-crossed warriors, as they struggle between forbidden love and the pull of modernity — caught between preserving their way of life or embracing a future together.
The series revamp will mark the latest cinematic evolution author Wang Dulu’s Crane-Iron pentalogy. Ang Lee adapted the novels featuring Michelle Yeoh and Chow Yun Fat, along with Zhang Ziyi, and screen legend Cheng Pei Pei for the titular 2000 Oscar winner from Sony Pictures Classics. Netflix followed suit with the 2016 English-language sequel, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon: Sword of Destiny, rejoining Yeoh with action director Yuen Woo Ping, who took the helm, and also starring Donnie Yen, and Jason Scott Lee.
The show will be shepherded by SPTV along with Jason Ning (The Brothers Sun), and Ron Moore (For All Mankind); Ning is exec producing next to Moore and his Tall Ship Productions partner Maril Davis, as well as Johnny Levin, Vertigo’s Roy Lee, and Wang Dulu Estate’s Hong Wang and Qin Wang. Additionally, Ying Lou is co-exec producing.
Read more at Deadline.
Lead image: Sony Pictures Classics
