From a Hollywood standpoint, Birth of the Dragon looks like a foreign film: it has a largely Asian cast, it was financed by Asian financiers, there’s only a single white actor.
Birth of the Dragon takes as its subject an early, formative episode in Lee’s life, when he was living in San Francisco in the early 1960s.
They seem quite happy to pump money into films such as Star Trek Beyond and the Kung Fu Panda franchise.
“My own sense,” says Chan, “is that Chinese investment in Hollywood films is less concerned about the politics of representation than about profits.