The Only Surviving Kung Fu Cast Member Discusses New Movie & TV Series

You may have already read the recent announcements in The Hollywood Reporter, Variety, Deadline. The Wrap, etc, that the 'Kung Fu' Movie is in the works. Universal has optioned the 1970s martial arts Western television show and is developing it as a big-screen property with director David Leitch. In addition, 'Hobbs & Shaw' filmmakers will also produce the adaptation of the '70s TV series over at Warner Bros.

Radames Pera, who played young Caine "Grasshopper" through-out the series is the only remaining cast member alive. Other series he's worked on included Little House on the Prairie (reoccurring), The Six Million Dollar Man, The Waltons, Hawaii Five-O, etc
David Carradine starred in the Kung Fu TV series, which ran on ABC from 1972 to 1975. The show followed Kwai Chang Caine (Carradine), a Shaolin monk who came to the American West in search of his half brother. Kung Fu gained a cult following and injected the phrase "young grasshopper" into the pop culture lexicon via flashbacks to Caine's training as a teenager.
The CW has given straight-to-series orders to dramas Kung Fu, starring Olivia Liang, and the Republic Of Sarah, headlined by Stella Baker. The reboot of the 1970s David Carradine-starring TV series and the small-town drama join Superman & Lois and Walker, which already received series orders in January. Emerging from a pilot season decimated by the coronavirus pandemic, the CW is heading into the 2020-21 broadcast season with the most straight-to-series orders of any network so far, four. Two of them come from the CW’s most prolific producer, Greg Berlanti (Kung Fu and Superman & Lois)