Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story
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Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story | |
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Directed by | Rob Cohen |
Produced by | Raffella de Laurentiis |
Written by | Rob Cohen John Raffo |
Starring | Jason Scott Lee Lauren Holly Robert Wagner |
Music by | Randy Edelman |
Distributed by | Universal Studios |
Release date(s) | 1993 |
Running time | 120 mins |
Language | English |
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Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story, released in 1993, is a fictionalized biographical film about Bruce Lee, starring Jason Scott Lee (no relation) as Lee. The movie was directed by Rob Cohen and written by Cohen, Edward Khmara, and John Raffo. Its soundtrack has been reused many times for movie trailers.
The movie has spawned a lesser-known fighting game of the same name, available on the SNES, Sega Genesis, Sega Game Gear, and Atari Jaguar systems. See Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story (video game).
[edit] Main cast
- Jason Scott Lee... Bruce Lee
- Duncan Chow... Bruce Lee (Infant Version)
- Lauren Holly... Linda Lee
- Robert Wagner... Bill Krieger
- Michael Learned... Vivian Emery
- Nancy Kwan... Gussie Yang
- Kay Tong Lim... Philip Tan
- Ric Young... Bruce's Father
- Luoyong Wang... Yip Man
- Sterling Macer... Jerome Sprout
- Sven-Ole Thorsen... The Demon
- Eric Bruskotter... Joe Henderson
- Aki Aleong... Principal Elder
- Michael Cudlitz... Tad Overton
[edit] Trivia
- The role for Bruce Lee was first offered to his real-life son Brandon Lee who declined
- Brandon Lee died in a fatal shooting accident while filming for the movie The Crow in March 1993 only a few months before this film released. The film is dedicated to his memory at the end credits
- Bruce Lee's only living daughter Shannon Lee has a cameo appearance as a singer in the party scene, at which Linda tells Bruce she is pregnant - carrying Shannon