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‘Fist of Fury’ fan edit proves Bruce Lee would have been the ultimate Jedi in a ‘Star Wars’ movie

'Chen Kenobi' would bow to nobody!

Bruce Lee as Chen Zhen, Fist of Fury (1972)
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Imagine, if only for a moment, the possibilities that would crop up from in a world of post-late-stage Hollywood a la Chip ‘n Dale: Rescue Rangers. In that film, we caught glimpses of an imagined E.T. vs. Batman movie, symbolizing a world that has run out of ideas, yet somehow gerrymanders more evocative, if cursed, ones out of it.

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What else could possibly come from such a world? An Umbrella Academy cameo in the MCU? John Wick joining the Ghostbusters? It would be an endless fountain of hazardously absurd entertainment, but one redditor has taken it a step further with a particularly mouth-watering mashup scene.

The scene in question reimagines a combat sequence from Bruce Lee’s Fist of Fury, now with both participants wielding lightsaber weapons from the Star Wars series; “Chen Kenobi” suddenly has a fantastic ring to it.

One user commended the original poster’s creativity, giving a special nod to Chen Zhen’s pair of yellow lightsaber nunchakus, and going on to dream up other weapons that may be fun to see in lightsaber form.

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This prompted others to remind everyone that the idea of lightsaber nunchakus are technically already in the Star Wars canon. The reference comes from a comic book in which a young Obi-Wan presented the concept to Qui-Gon, who presumably shot the idea down in order to keep with the lightsaber tradition. Now we know who to blame.

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Perhaps movie magic and a dystopic collapse of the public domain will one day allow us to see a digitally-resurrected Bruce Lee make his way to a galaxy far, far away, eyeing a spectacular showdown with the one and only Darth Norris.