Cinemax Teases Warrior: the Fusion of Bruce Lee, Banshee, and The Fast and the Furious

You know the absolutely fastest way to get me hyped? I didn’t know until I saw Cinemax drop a teaser trailer with the following phrases:

From the writing of Bruce Lee… From Jonathan Tropper co-creator of Banshee… And Justin Lin, director The Fast and the Furious…

You got old-time newspapers from California getting marked up and cut up. Old school western music surges, as we rip the page and get a glimpse of glorious melee. This Warrior teaser only provides the tiniest drop of what’s to come, but I’m 100% ready for another profile martial arts, Western TV series. I love me some Into the Badlands, but my eager Asian heart is always open for more content. The pedigree of the show alone should be enticing. Banshee was legitimately one of the greatest television offerings during its heyday and featured some of the most brilliantly brutal and bloody fight scenes you could catch on TV. These creators didn’t come here to play with y’all, they came here to throw down. And one of the co-creators, Jonathan Tropper, wants to adapt some of Bruce Lee’s writings with Justin Lin?

If you’ll stay hyped with me a little longer for the official Warrior synopsis Inspired by an idea from martial arts legend, Bruce Lee, this gritty, action-packed crime drama is set during the brutal Tong Wars of San Francisco’s Chinatown in the second half of the 19th century. Filming in Cape Town, South Africa, it follows a martial arts prodigy who emigrates from China to San Francisco under mysterious ci…