Movie about Bruce Lee’s most legendary fight

Shannon Lee poses with the amount of her father, Bruce Lee, at Madame Tussaud's (Getty Images)

Bruce Lee acquired allegorical cachet as a aggressive artisan in allotment because of a 1965 action in Oakland, Calif., adjoin Chinese kung fu adept Wong Jack Man. It was the endure action of Lee's career.
For about 50 years, there has been abundant acceptance and acrimonious agitation about what occurred central of that gym, as absolute few humans witnessed it. But the aftereffect of the bender is that it helped to advance Lee's angle on Jeet Kune Do, which is the advertiser of today's alloyed aggressive arts.

It is not, however, advised to be a adventures of Lee, who died in 1973, or the absolute annual of the fight.
"We're in actuality not aggravating to re-tell the adventure of Bruce Lee," London said. "I anticipate that's a accustomed consequence humans ability get. The idea, actually, is to yield that battle, which has been so abstruse and so able and so absorbing to so many, and acquaint the lead-up to that story, which is Wong Jack Man's accession in San Francisco.

"We've created a aback story. There is a lot humans that apperceive about why Wong Jack Man came to San Francisco, but we're aggravating to actualize a badly acceptable adventure about why he's there. So we're demography license. That's why we say it's traveling to be aggressive by that action and isn't a accurate cogent of it."

London said the writers -- Christopher Wilkinson and Stephen Rivele -- accept the acceptance that Jack Man was aggravating to advice Lee to become the best adaptation of himself and was aggravating to advise Lee lessons.

London said the action sequences will be apparent through the eyes of the humans who were there. One of those was Lee's wife, Linda, who was eight months abundant at the time with the couple's son, Brandon.
"There will be a hardly august superior to the absolute action sequences," London said. "That will acquiesce altered humans who were there to appear abroad with differing abstracts of what happened. ... The accomplished abstraction is that the 13 humans who saw that action came abroad with absolute differing account of what happened. The action itself will be impressionistic."

Bruce Lee on a movie set in 1969 (Getty)

Jack Man is antisocial and rarely does interviews and has rarely announced of that fight. London said producers will access him afterwards finishing the screenplay. He said he hasn't accomplished out to Lee's family, either.

Lee's daughter, Shannon, who runs the Bruce Lee Foundation, said that the action was cogent in her father's activity because of the appulse it had aloft him.

"It was a cardinal moment in his activity because he was absolute aghast afterwards the fight," Shannon Lee said. "Happy that he won, obviously, and blessed he won the appropriate to advise whoever he saw fit is what the claiming was over, the actuality that he was teaching non-Chinese humans the art of kung fu.

"He was absolute agitated and my Mom said he was sitting alfresco and had his arch in his hands. He told her that he acquainted the action had gone on a lot best than he anticipation it should and he acquainted annoyed and asthmatic from accepting to run to hunt [Jack Man]. He acquainted his training had let him down. ... He anticipation it should accept been over a lot faster, and it was absolutely from that that he started to change his accomplished cerebration on aggressive arts."

London said no calendar is set to activate filming. He said "if we're lucky, we'll accomplish the cine next year."