Remo williams
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Or they could have hired an actor of Asian decent, but I guess in the mid-eighties it was more practical to spend four hours a day making a white guy look like an elderly Korean.Įven Grey was skeptical. Chiun was supposed to be an 80-year-old Korean, so Grey was required to undergo four hours of make-up a day in order to appear Asian. Joel Grey, who was born in Cleveland, Ohio and is of Jewish decent, played Ward’s mentor, Chiun. Fred Ward, who was in his mid-forties at the time, played the unlikely action hero.
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The first movie basically told the hero’s origin story. The books got into some pretty “out-there” story lines that pitted the assassin against cyborgs, shape-shifters and vampires. Form there, he is trained to be an assassin by his mentor, Chiun. Instead, his death was faked and he was recruited by a secret government organization called CURE. The hero of the books was a Newark cop who was framed for a crime and sentenced to death. The movie was based on a series of paperback novels called The Destroyer. Because after only one movie, he was done. But if Remo Williams was comparable to any Bond, it was George Lazenby. The idea was that Remo Williams would be the American equivalent of James Bond with a long-running film series to rival 007. When you subtitle a movie with something like “The Adventure Begins” you are sending a clear message to audiences of your intention to make sequels. Today marks the 30th anniversary of the release of the action movie, Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins.