Bill Paxton may direct adaptation of Kung Fu TV series
After nearly five years of nomadic wandering, the feature film version of 1970s TV series Kung Fu may have at last found its master in Bill Paxton, who is in talks to direct the story of a Shaolin monk traveling the back roads of the American West, as he tries to avoid practicing the martial arts that are in the very title of his show. (Had his show only been titled Maybe I’ll Grab Some Lunch, he might have fared better.) Paxton is just the latest candidate to be attached to a project that’s been in the works for nearly five years now: Former Akira directors and Asian studies majors The Hughes Brothers were working on a “darker, grittier” version with original producer Ed Spielman as far back as 2006, and of course, the circumstances surrounding the death of David Carradine in 2009 most likely tabled that discussion for a while.