And David Bowie is scoring the Broadway set, reports suggest.Bruce Lee is to be immortalised on Broadway with a new musical, Variety Magazine is reporting.
The Kung-Fu legend, who died in the summer of '73, will be the subject in a performance piece, which is being penned by Tony Award-winning scriptwriter David Henry Hwang - for a premier planned for 2008.
The magazine piece adds the musical would be based on the life story of the martial arts icon, from his time as one of the world's most recognisable stars in films like "Enter The Dragon", to his tragic death in July 1973 aged 32.
David Bowie has also been linked to the project after meeting director Matthew Wachus in Toronto, Canada. Wachus is rumoured to be directing the musical, which comes hot on the heels of another martial arts extravaganza based on the same content material as the "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" film.
However, producer and former Disney Theatricals executive Stuart Oken says the Lee stage show would be very different. "Our show is a legit show...No flying. No wires. No Cirque-type stuff. I see us doing something far more in the mode of The Lion King. Something low-tech."
