Kung-Fu Reboot Comes To CW With "Blindspot" Team

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The female-led Kung Fu reboot originally being developed at FOX will go forward at the CW (makes sense seeing as Berlanti is one of the producers). Christina M Kim and Martin Gero (Blindspot) are the creative team.



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Picked up to pilot are Kung Fu, a reboot of the cult 1970s series from the team behind NBC's Blindspot, and The Republic of Sarah, a drama that will be redeveloped from last season when it narrowly missed a series order at CBS.

Kung Fu, which counts Greg Berlanti among its executive producers, will put a Chinese-American woman at its center. The project, which was put into development back in November at The CW after Fox previously took a stab at it in 2018, will be penned by Blindspot's Christina M. Kim, with that series' showrunner, Martin Gero, also attached to exec produce the new take on the Ed Spielman drama that starred David Carradine. Kim, Gero and Berlanti will say farewell to NBC's Blindspot when the series wraps its run with its fifth and final season. (A return date has not been determined.)

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