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Bruce Lee Biopic Released

by Sony Sahota | November 25, 2010 at 11:11 pm

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“Bruce Lee, My Brother,” the new biopic of legendary film star and martial artist debuts today.

The film charts Bruce Lee’s early childhood and young adulthood from the memories of his four surviving siblings, Phoebe, Agnes, Peter (who died in 2008) and Robert. Lee would have turned 70 this Sunday.

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The Lee family supplied us with all the details and tidbits of their family life so we took great care to be loyal to the truth and avoid anything that felt fake, which made it rather difficult for us in terms of creating the structure of the script. But the Lee family was very pleased with the result, especially with how close it was to what actually happened.

Raymond Yip, Director of "Bruce Lee, My Brother"

The production took years to put on screen, as with the difficult task of finding a young actor to play the icon. Potential candidates were screened all over China since 2008 until 23-year-old singer-songwriter Aarif Rahman made the cut. The Hong Kong-born Rahman, of Malay-Arab-Chinese decent is already lined-up for potential sequels.

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Robert Mundo (not verified)

at 11:37 on November 27th, 2010

Outstanding movie. I loved it!

Sylvia Massara

at 23:54 on December 9th, 2010

Bruce Lee was always my idol. There's never been anyone like him and I don't think there ever will be. He was a true pioneer of the martial arts in his day. Will await for this movie to come out in Australia.