BRUCE LEE: STILL LUCRATIVE

A sharp-eyed reader has thoroughly ruined my morning by sending in news that Bruce Lee is going to be one of the first CGI actors in a movie from Rob Cohen, director of DRAGON: THE BRUCE LEE STORY and THE FAST AND THE FURIOUS.

The film is being made in conjunction with Dreamworks and with the participation of the Lee family, who apparently practice the martial art stance of "Ceaselessly Squeezing Cash from Father's Corpse" and it's called RAGE AND FURY.

The original script is reviewed on Latino Review and it sounds like what the world has been waiting for: a KARATE KID remake with Bruce Lee in the mentor role as a ghost, a la Obi Wan Kenobi in THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK.

Rob Cohen then emailed Latino Review to say that he also thought the script was pretty awful and is re-writing it to make it "...older, tougher and more realistic to life today, stylized as I did in THE FAST AND THE FURIOUS." Then he reveals that Bruce Lee will be a CGI actor, like Jar Jar Binks, and that all of his dialogue will be lines from his old interviews and movies.

I...I...I know that making money is fine, and I know if Rob Cohen didn't do it someone else probably would but...I mean...do you think putting a padlock on Bruce Lee's coffin would help? The formula for the new millennium? Rob Cohen = Betty Ting Pei only without the perm.