{"id":8219,"date":"2013-05-09T01:05:57","date_gmt":"2013-05-09T05:05:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=8219"},"modified":"2013-05-05T18:23:31","modified_gmt":"2013-05-05T22:23:31","slug":"master-of-kung-fu-should-be-a-tv-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=8219","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Master of Kung Fu&#8221; Should be a TV Series"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><\/strong><strong><\/strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2013\/z050913mokf.png\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial;\"><strong>Marvel Comics <em>Master of Kung Fu<\/em><\/strong> could make a great television series. Granted, they&#8217;d need to change the title. \u00a0Even die-hard fans of the <strong>MOKF<\/strong> series realized that the silly sounding title probably kept more fans from reading the series, but those that gave it a try (especially the <strong>Doug Moench\/Paul Gulacy<\/strong> issues) were in for some of the best comic stories being published.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Shang-Chi<\/strong> (the <strong>Master of Kung Fu<\/strong> from the title) was a young man who, well, let <strong>Shang-Chi<\/strong> tell you&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00a0&#8220;Call me Shang-Chi, as my father did when he raised me and molded my mind and my body in the vacuum of his Honan, China retreat. I learned many things from my father: That my name means &#8216;The Rising and Advancing of a Spirit&#8217;, that my body could be forged into a living weapon through the discipline of kung fu, and that it might be used for the murder of a man called Dr. Petrie.\n<p>Since then I have learned that my father is Dr. Fu Manchu, the most insidiously evil man on earth&#8230;and that to honor him would bring nothing but dishonor to the spirit of my name.&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Shang-Chi<\/strong> reluctantly became an agent for the <strong>British<\/strong> government &#8212; think <strong>Bruce Lee<\/strong> working with <strong>James Bond<\/strong> &#8212; and found himself in adventures just as wild as in any<strong> 007<\/strong> movie.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Marvel<\/strong> has never given the<strong> Moench\/Gulacy MOKF<\/strong> run the hardback treatment it deserves since they no longer have the rights to <strong>Fu Manchu<\/strong>. \u00a0This seems like a bit of a cop-out to me, since it would be easy to call <strong>Fu<\/strong> something else. \u00a0I imagine the same thing would have to happen for a proposed tv series.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tell you what, though. \u00a0How about someone with clout getting it done in both arenas?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marvel Comics Master of Kung Fu could make a great television series. Granted, they&#8217;d need to change the title. \u00a0Even<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[58,56,50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-comics","category-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8219","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8219"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8219\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8222,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8219\/revisions\/8222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}