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LOS ANGELES (Zap2it.com) - Charlie Chan's No. 1 granddaughter will
be taking up the family business. A long gestating project will star Lucy Liu as the Chinese-American
detective's granddaughter in an update of the popular series, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The "Charlie's Angels"
actress will also executive produce. "It's a reinvention of the franchise that credibly passes on the baton
to Lucy Liu as the lead character and lead of the franchise," says TV executive-turned-screenwriter Dan McDermott who will
write the screenplay for Fox. Charlie Chan, created by Earl Derr Biggers, became a popular low-budget
movie fixture in the '30s and '40s. As a detective for the Honolulu Police Department, Chan (in his signature white fedora
and suit) would stumble upon a murder mystery in an exotic locale and solve the case in spite of the bumbling efforts of his
No. 1 or No. 2 son. Today, many decry the films for using Caucasian actors -- such as
Warner Oland, Sidney Toler or Roland Winters -- to portray Chan in "yellow face." Also, the older films often perpetuated
stereotypes with Chan's mangled take on English-language proverbs such as "Owner of face cannot always see nose" or "Shot
in dark sometime find eye of bull." Besides the numerous early Chan films, a Hanna-Barbera animated series
called "The Amazing Chan and the Chan Clan" sprang up in the early '70s featuring a mix of Asian voice actors and Jodie Foster
as Anne Chan. Although Liu hasn't been seen on screen since playing the ill-fated
O-Ren Ishii in Quentin Tarantino's "Kill Bill, Vol. 1," she's been busy with an upcoming slate that includes Tony Scott's
model-turned-bounty hunter film "Domino," the indie drama "3 Needles," the thriller "Lucky Number Slevin," the vampire film
"Rise," New Line's comedy "The Cleaner" and indie thriller "Devil to Pay."
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