Collider ran a press release naming Shannon Lee, Bruce's daughter, as a producer on the still developing project. Lawrence Grey and Janet Yang, of Leaving Las Vegas and The People vs. Larry Flynt fame respectively, will also serve as producers on the project, which is supposedly the first time the Lee family has been fully involved in bringing Bruce's story to life.
Of course, this wouldn't be the first time Bruce Lee's life story has been told on the big screen, as director Rob Cohen had previously made Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story for Universal back in 1993. While the film was well regarded, and made some pretty decent box office coin, it only used the autobiography of Bruce Lee's widow, Linda Lee Caldwell, as reference. The film also played heavily in the waters of the supernatural, chalking up the fate of Bruce Lee's untimely death to a family curse.
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