By | Published August 14, 2008

KILL BILL stars David Carradine and Darryl Hannah are reuniting on the small screen in a similarly bloody martial arts actioner. Featuring Cheng Pei-pei in a supporting role, KUNG FU KILLER is a made-for-TV original miniseries premiering on Spike TV on August 17th.

Set in 1920s China, the two-part miniseries sees Carradine play “White Crane,” an orphaned son of Western missionaries who was raised as a Wudang monk. Although striving for peace, he is forced to seek revenge for the death of his master.

White Crane enters Shanghai’s mob world where he meets Jane Marshall (Hannah), a lounge singer who also catches the eye of the man he’s hunting for (Lim Kay-tong).

In the second part which airs August 18th, Jane is one of several women kidnapped by White Crane’s childhood nemesis Bai Yang (Lim Yu-bang) and the Wudang master must come to her rescue.

KUNG FU KILLER is a co-production of U.S.-based RHI Entertainment and Canada’s Reunion Pictures. The miniseries features a sizable showing from Chinese talents both onscreen and off. Among the co-stars is wuxia queen Cheng Pei-pei who recently filled the role of judge on Jackie Chan’s DISCIPLE talent show and Taiwanese-American pop star Anya (NAKED WEAPON).

It appears that members of Ching Siu-tung’s camp are responsible for the action choreography. Wei Li is lead choreographer and is assisted by Feng Shi and Wang Jun-kang. The first two were stuntmen under Ching in HERO and HOUSE OF FLYING DAGGERS.

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  • http://www.kungfucinema.com/forums/member.php?u=1 Mark Pollard

    David Carradine interviewed on NIGHT TALK (sent in via e-mail) –

    Tonight on the BLOOMBERG TELEVISION® program “Night Talk,” anchor Mike Schneider talks to Kung Fu Killer’s David Carradine.

    Carradine talks about leaving the Kung Fu television series in the 1970s, “I didn’t want to play this little bald Chinese guy for the rest of my life.”

    He talks about playing “White Crane,” an orphaned son of Western missionaries who was raised as a Wudang monk. “I’ve always wanted to do…something about this character [the historical character in the new movie], but I never could because Warner Brothers owns the rights. But they don’t own the rights to history. Nobody has a copyright on history.”

    “Night Talk” airs in the U.S., Europe and Asia on Bloomberg TV at 10PM on weeknights and is simulcast on Bloomberg Radio at 10PM. Bloomberg Radio is broadcast on 1130AM in the New York Metropolitan area and is available on XM and Sirius. The Friday night Show re-airs over the weekend Sat at 8:00-9:00pm, 10:00-11:00pm and Mon 12:00am – 1:00am.

    “Night Talk” can also be seen on Bloomberg.com (http://www.bloomberg.com/tvradio/shows.html), is podcast at (http://www.bloomberg.com/tvradio/podcast/night_talk.html) and also on iTunes under Business News.

    For information, tapes and transcripts please contact Heidi Tan (htan14@bloomberg.net). For guest suggestions, please contact Robin Wood (rwood12@bloomberg.net)