Can Beijing's AI revival of kung-fu classics inspire patriots?
China, the world's most enthusiastic proponent of artificial intelligence, is to use the technology to recreate Hong Kong's favourite action movies, among them the Bruce Lee kung-fu classic Fist of Fury.
The film's popularity around the world in the Seventies made Lee a pioneer for a whole series of fly-kicking Chinese action men, such as Jackie Chan and Jet Li, as they first dispatched cruel Japanese foes and then triads, American racists and arrogant Europeans.
The China Film Foundation has announced it is to work on the project with an AI studio and the company that has acquired the rights to Fist of Fury and other classics, such as A Better Tomorrow, by the director John Woo, and the Li film Once Upon a Time in China.
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