A rejected plan for a Western movie starring Bruce Lee was reworked and transformed into the martial legends' biggest movie, Enter the Dragon.
Enter the Dragon evolved from a rejected treatment for a Bruce Lee Western. Over the course of his career, the martial arts legend was involved in the development of multiple movies and TV shows. Some eventually happened, but many never came to pass within the actor’s lifetime. A few, however, did have some of their ideas incorporated into later Bruce Lee movies.
The two most well-known, umade projects Lee was involved with were The Warrior and The Silent Flute. One was a Western TV series, whereas the latter was a martial arts adventure movie he intended to make with James Coburn. For different reasons, Lee wasn’t able to get either off the ground and wound up moving on to other things. Interestingly, the same can be said for another movie treatment Lee’s name was attached to in the early 1970s.
SCREENRANT VIDEO OF THE DAY SCROLL TO CONTINUE WITH CONTENT Bruce Lee’s Kelsey Movie & Enter The Dragon Connection Explained Bruce Lee biographer Matthew Polly, who wrote Bruce Lee: A Life, confirmed through an interview with former Warner Bros. producer Fred Weintraub that Lee was supposed to have a co-starring role in a Western movie called Kelsey.
As Polly notes in his book, Kelsey was the “primary source material” for Enter the Dragon’s script. Like the iconic 1973 kung fu film, Kelsey hinged on a multiracial dynamic shared by a trio of Black, white, and Asian characters. Kelsey would have been the Western movie’s white character, with Woody Strode considered by Weintraub for the role of the Black protagonist. This multiracial theme was embraced by Warner Bros.
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