Bruce Lee once developed a concept for a potential TV series about a martial artist in the American Old West, but the networks weren't biting. However, Warner Bros. allegedly took that concept and transformed it into Kung Fu, the 70s series which starred David Carradine, and gave Lee no credit. Decades later, Lee's original idea has been brought to life as Warrior, an action-packed Cinemax series which stars Andrew Koji as Ah Sahm, a martial arts prodigy who emigrates from China to San Francisco under mysterious circumstances and becomes a hatchet man for one of Chinatown’s most powerful crime families.
Cinemax have released a new teaser trailer for the second season of Warrior, which will follow "rival Chinatown Tongs as they fight for dominance amidst the growing anti-Chinese fervor that threatens to destroy them all." In a review of the first season, our own Alex Maidy said that "Cinemax has stumbled onto a series that blends the violence, nudity, and action that have become their trademark while also bringing a level of narrative drama that has been lacking in some of their previous efforts. A lot of Warrior doesn't work as well as it should, but for a cast made up primarily of Asian actors in a story that would never work on network television, this is an achievement worth checking out."
The official synopsis for Warrior
WARRIOR is a gritty, action-packed crime drama set during the brutal Tong Wars of San Francisco’s Chinatown in the second half of the 19th century. The series follows Ah Sahm, a martial arts prodigy who emigrates from China to San Francisco under mysterious circumstances and becomes a hatchet man for one of Chinatown’s most powerful tongs – also known as a Chinese organized crime family.
The second season of Warrior will debut on Cinemax this October.