“Once Upon a Time in Hollywood” Theatrical Poster
Martial arts actor/filmmaker Ron Yuan (Step Up China, The Paper Tigers) is teaming up with actor/martial artist Mike Moh (Marvel’s Inhumans) for an upcoming thriller titled 8 Dragons.
8 Dragons is being written by James Frey (Queen & Slim, I Am Number Four) and Ray Wong (Burnt Grass). Plot details for the film are currently under wraps (let’s pray that Paul’s synopsis in the comments is legit), but here’s hoping the film will further showcase more of Moh’s footwork.
Moh is perhaps best known for his role as Bruce Lee in Quentin Tarantino’s Once Upon a Time in Hollywood and Ryu in the series Street Fighter: Assassin’s Fist and Street Fighter: Resurrection.
Ron Yuan is currently putting finishing touches on his futuristic sequel to Carl Rinsch’s 2013 actioner 47 Ronin, which releases later this year on Netflix.
We’ll keep you updated on 8 Dragons as well learn more.
From the unofficial press release –
“8 Dragons is a bold reimagining of the 1980 exploitation classic The Clones of Bruce Lee. Whereas that movie offered up 3 Bruce Lee clones, 8 Dragons will more than double it, with Mike Moh to be joined by Philip Ng, Danny Chan, Jason Scott Lee, Dragon Chen, Aarif Rahman, Abbas Alizada (the Afghan Bruce Lee), and Donnie Yen (currently in final negotiations to join). The plot will involve Bruce Lee being cloned to take on the wrath of Hollywood stuntman Cliff Booth, in what’s described as a mix of science fiction meets oriental mysticism. Hang onto your seats, because you ain’t never seen Bruce Lee like this before!”
LOL! Now that’s a movie I’d pay to see. I’m serious. Take my money. Almost sounds like “Bruceploitation meets Woody Allen’s Casino Royale”…
i really do hope it gets official.
Mike Moh will always be Ryu for me. 😀
This is not a popular opinion, but he’ll always be the best representation of Bruce Lee for me. His portrayal was on point.
Too bad that ONCE UPON A TIME IN HOLLYWOOD and Quentin Tarantino didn’t represent his physical fighting point(of being able to defeat Any man on the planet) well.
Didn’t you see Game of Death – all you need to defeat Bruce Lee is two stools found mysteriously in a parking lot. 😉
Don’t forget, the fight in HOLLYWOOD was stopped before anyone could win. Killer Meteor… I don’t get the joke. I’m curious about it, so explain. I do know that a middle aged dude with a cane almost kicked Billy Lo’s ass. =)
What do you mean that the fight was stopped before anyone can win, JJ Bona? Brad Pitt threw the Bruce Lee character like a rag doll against a car and left a deep dent on it. When “Bruce Lee” hit Brad Pitt in the “first round” Brad Pitt got up like it was nothing. Tarantino did that racist garbage of a scene to mock Bruce Lee. It’s obvious. Tarantino is trash.
That’s exactly what happened in JJ’s statement. Bruce got up from being thrown like it was nothing, and probably would have beaten Cliff if Zoe Bell didn’t stop the fight. Nothing racist going on.
I’m with Kevin on this one. JJ Bona, QT and Mike Moh all hate Asian people. They’re all as equally racist as they come. It all started when Tarantino used Uma Thurman instead getting Zhang Ziyi to wear the iconic Game of Death tracksuit.
“Bruce got up from being thrown like it was nothing”
No, he didn’t. “Bruce Lee” struggles to get up after the designated white king Brad Pitt throws him like a rag doll against a car. In fact after “Bruce Lee” gets up he has to take a moment to crack his back to gain movement before starting again. He is clearly in pain whereas Brad “the white king” Pitt felt nothing when “Bruce Lee” did the jump kick. It was a clear difference that was made between how each reacted to being hit by the other to establish that “Bruce Lee” in the eyes of Tarantino was a fraud.
“and probably would have beaten Cliff if Zoe Bell didn’t stop the fight”
You’ve made up a version of the scene that doesn’t exist. The designated white king Brad Pitt goes on to block every shot that “Bruce Lee” throws and “Bruce Lee” doesn’t land a single hit. The white king controls the fight by going as far as physically swinging “Bruce Lee” to the other direction and actually hitting me.
The scene is open to interpretation, but this goes too far with the “white king” nonsense. Mike Moh did an interview with COF where his take made sense, and most people agree that the fight was not over.
In the fight between Billy Lo and the motocyclists early in the film, he’s kicking ass until they suddenly grab some chairs out of nowhere and smash them over his back – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iZ6eFWa-Ako&ab_channel=WatchmeNowNow
People don’t realize that Brad Pitt was the one who smashed that chair on Billy Lo!