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Marvel Studios’ Iron Fist, which was born under the banner of Netflix, brought some interesting characters to life. Certainly, the show had the inherent idea of action, as any superhero project, and for that, the actors in the show had to undergo an intense training process.

Finn Jones in Iron Fist

While Finn Jones-led show promised top-notch action and stunning choreography, fans and critics have preferred Jessica Henwick’s action scenes over Jones’. The reason, as the stunt coordinator of the show, Brett Chan revealed was much more obvious than you think.

Iron Fist Stunt Coordinator Revealed The Secret Behind Jessica Henwick’s Action Scenes In The Show Jessica Henwick and Rosario Dawson in Iron Fist

It is no secret that Jessica Henwick’s action sequences drew more attention than Finn Jones’ in his superhero show Iron Fist. Fans might wonder how she pulled it off, and the stunt coordinator...

Exclusive: Electric Panda Entertainment and Gold Star Productions announced today that Miles Brown (Black-ish) and Andrew Koji are set to star in the upcoming comedic action-thriller Sixteen. Emmy-nominated stunt coordinator/action director Brett Chan will be making his feature directorial debut, from the screenplay written by Jason Bourque (Insomnia), Phillip Mitchell and David Zanardi (A Wine Country Christmas). Production is set to begin Winter 2023 in Vancouver.

The film is being produced by Ken Frith and co-writer Jason Bourque of Gold Star Productions (Drone), and Yas Taalat, Gabriel Napora and Yipeng Ben Lu of Electric Panda Entertainment (The Informer). Executive producers include Adam Riback, Costa Vassos and Cody Sparshu.

Sixteen is a high-concept action film in the vein of Kick-Ass and Superbad, about a professional hitman (Koji) who’s been reincarnated as a sixteen-year-old boy (Brown), and must now take on the...

Max’s original series “Warrior” is returning this summer with actor Andrew Koji (“Bullet Train”) leading the period crime drama based on the ideas/writings of the legendary martial arts star/figure Bruce Lee. A new teaser trailer for the third season (see below) has been released, giving audiences a glimpse of what to expect with this next wave of “Warrior” episodes.

Read More: Andrew Koji & Brett Chan Discuss How ‘Warrior’ Finds Character In Its Choreography [Interview]

That teaser reveals that its third season will return in late June.

Continue reading ‘Warrior’ Season 3 Teaser Trailer: Max’s Martial Arts Crime Drama Returns June 29 at The Playlist.

Curated by the IndieWire Crafts team, Craft Considerations is a platform for filmmakers to talk about recent work that we believe is worthy of awards consideration. In partnership with HBO, for this edition we look at how the crafts team behind the martial arts drama series “Warrior” translated Bruce Lee’s original vision with stunt coordinator Brett Chan, costume designer Moira Anne Meyer, and visual effects supervisors Nathan Overstrom and Jonathan Alenskas.

In the early 1970s, Bruce Lee wrote a pitch for an American television series he was excited to make. The story centered around a Chinese martial artist — a role Lee wrote for himself — who comes to the American West circa the 1870s. Years later, his daughter Shannon Lee found the original eight-page treatment — one that every major studio in Hollywood passed on decades earlier — and brought it to “Fast and the Furious” director/producer Justin Lin. Together Shannon and Lin,...

With more than two decades in the business, Brett Chan has racked up quite the résumé as both a stunt performer and a coordinator. On the small screen alone he has dozens of credits from superhero dramas “Arrow” and “Supergirl,” to Netflix’s “Altered Carbon.” Now, he is responsible for the stunts on a quartet of high-adrenaline series: TNT’s “Snowpiercer,” WarnerMedia’s “Warrior,” the CW’s “Kung Fu,” and the upcoming “Halo” for Paramount Plus.

How does a character’s backstory affect the kind of fight style you create for them, especially on a show like “Snowpiercer” where people from all walks of life are crammed on that train?

It’s basically characters first, and then you have to elaborate from there. Daveed Diggs’ [character Andre Layton] was an ex-police officer, and so was [Mickey Sumner’s Bess] Till, but they both have very different backgrounds in terms of what their positions were in the police force.

There is no shortage of reasons to fall in love with HBO Max’s “Warrior.” The series – which is based on the writings of Bruce Lee and explores the wave of racism and gang violence in 1800s San Francisco that preceded the Chinese Exclusion Act – is the best kind of historical parable, a story that revisits real events through a combination of narrative and spectacle. And the second season, which premiered late in 2020, is a thrilling example of cast and creators rising to the moment, offering standout prestige television when audiences are starving for Asian-American representation onscreen.

Continue reading Andrew Koji & Brett Chan Discuss How ‘Warrior’ Finds Character In Its Choreography [Interview] at The Playlist.

With the arrival of the long-gestating “Warrior” on Cinemax, justice for Bruce Lee has never tasted so bloody bittersweet. The martial arts legend pitched the concept for a series in which he’d star as a Chinese hired muscle in the Old West, but instead, the concept was tweaked and became the whitewashed “Kung Fu” series starring David Carradine. Nearly 50 years later, Lee’s original vision has come to television thanks to his daughter Shannon Lee, “Fast and the Furious” director Justin Lin, and “Banshee” creator Jonathan Tropper. As direct and forceful as Bruce Lee’s famed one-inch punch, “Warrior” is short on subtlety but delivers all the adrenaline-pumping martial arts smackdowns one would expect from both the master and from Cinemax’s brutal brand.

In the series, Chinese immigrant Ah Sahm (Andrew Koji) arrives in San Francisco 1878 on a personal mission, but when his fighting skills come to light,...

Among the more fascinating legends in the short but memorable life of Bruce Lee is the TV show the martial-arts icon pitched in the early Seventies about a Chinese immigrant traveling through America in the late 19th century. The studio politely declined, the Lee family story goes, then stole key elements of the pitch to make Kung Fu, a Western-meets-Eastern where the immigrant was played by the Caucasian actor David Carradine.

On April 5th, the legend becomes fact in an unexpected, wonderful way with Warrior, a new Cinemax drama inspired...

An empire will burn. Below, Watch the Marco Polo TV show's season two featurette from Netflix. The ten-episode second season of Marco Polo drops tomorrow, Friday, July 1, 2016. The historical drama follows 13th century explorer Marco Polo during his adventures along the Silk Road. In the video, the cast and crew set the scene for Marco Polo, season two, which promises to be much darker, internally as well as externally.Featured in the video are Creator Ep John Fusco, Lorenzo Richelmy (Marco Polo), Rick Yune (Kaidu), Benedict Wong (Kublai Khan), Claudia Kim (Khutlun), Remy Hii (Prince Jingim), Olivia Cheng (Mei Lin), Ep Patrick MacManus, Mahesh Jadu (Ahmad), Tom Wu (Hundred Eyes), Gabriel Byrne (Pope Gregory X), Michelle Yeoh (Handmaiden/Lotus) and Brett Chan (Stunt Coordinator).Read More…...

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As season 2 of Netflix's martial arts epic Marco Polo arrives on Netflix, we chatted to Kublai Khan himself, Benedict Wong...

In addition to playing the world-straddling leader Kublai Khan in Netflix's big, expensive period action series, Marco Polo, Benedict Wong has carved out a niche in quality UK sci-fi films. He followed Danny Boyle's Sunshine with Duncan Jones' Moon, worked twice with Ridley Scott in The Martian and Prometheus, and recently came aboard Alex Garland's next picture, Annihilation. Before that comes to cinemas, he'll be seen alongside the UK's other acting Benedict in Marvel's Doctor Strange.

Many, of course, will fondly remember Wong as Errol, the optimistic innocent to Sean Lock's cynical misanthropist Vince in cult BBC comedy series 15 Storeys High, or even for a one-time appearance in The It Crowd.

We chatted to him about playing the would-be CEO of the world in Marco Polo,...

Brett Chan has been added as a stunt coordinator on Marvel’s Iron Fist, where he’ll help shape and guide the mystical martial arts of the titular superhero for the Netflix series.

If that names sounds familiar, it’s because Chan previously helped out another Netflix show, Marco Polo, with its dependably awe-inspiring fight sequences. Besides that series, Chan has a history of working on films like X2: X-Men United, Blade: Trinity, and even in the small-screen DC universe with Arrow.

The news comes from Twitter, where a fan asked Philip J. Silvera (a stunt coordinator for Marvel’s Daredevil) who would have the honor of helping Iron Fist beat up bad guys in his new show.

For those who aren’t sure who Iron Fist is or what his powers are, here’s a quick snapshot of Netflix’s upcoming superhero show. Suffice it to say, it sounds...

Update: Netflix and The Weinstein Company have just sent a statement regarding Ju Kun: “We are deeply saddened by the news about Malaysia Airlines Flight 370,” they said in a joint statement. “Ju Kun, who was on board, was an integral part of our production team and a tremendous talent. Our thoughts and prayers are with his family at this difficult time.” Earlier: Among the passengers missing and believed to have perished on Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 is Ju Kun, the veteran martial arts expert and assistant martial arts choreographer on Marco Polo, the Netflix/The Weinstein Company series pilot that is scheduled to begin production in three weeks. The 35-year old stuntman had completed a day of training and choreography and made a quick trip from Pinewood Studios in Malaysia to his home in Beijing, which was why he boarded the flight that disappeared 35,000 feet over Vietnam. This sad news comes...