Lee Huang Runs Action on “Kung Fu Deadly,” Premiering at Fantastic Fest
- Action director Lee Huang runs the action on “Kung Fu Deadly” for director Fergal Costello.
- Huang coordinated stunts on “Warrior Nun” and worked on “The Matrix Resurrections.”
- The set was staffed with veteran stunt performers so the comedy would not weaken the action.
Posted: August 24, 2026
Collider’s exclusive first look at Kung Fu Deadly puts the stunt credit in the headline, which is the right instinct: action director Lee Huang runs the action for director Fergal Costello. Huang designed and coordinated stunts on Netflix’s Warrior Nun and worked on The Matrix Resurrections, and the reporting notes the set was staffed with veteran stunt performers specifically so the comedy wouldn’t come at the expense of credible action — a familiar tension on martial-arts comedies, where the joke usually gets to eat the choreography.
The still itself shows what that discipline looks like in practice. Steven He’s Danny — an untrained pest-control worker drafted as a Taoist guardian — is caught in a weapons exchange against Min Chun (Fiona Xie), who works dual sai: Danny blocks one strike with a staff while bare-handedly gripping the other blade. It reads as a novice improvising against a trained fighter, which is a deliberate choreographic register rather than sloppiness, and it’s the harder note to hit cleanly on camera.
The cast carries further action pedigree in Jason Tobin (A Thousand Blows) and Max Huang (Mortal Kombat II), alongside Michael Tient and Gemma Chua-Tran. The film premieres at Fantastic Fest at the Alamo Drafthouse South Lamar in Austin, September 17–24, 2026.
Learn more on IMDb: Kung Fu Deadly (2026)
