Effects on Hollywood action genre post 1973 to the present if Bruce Lee survives?

[Fuzzy Dunlop]

What would be the effects on the Hollywood action genre post 1973 to the present if Bruce Lee survives?

How would this effect the likes of the future Sly Stallone, Arnie and Bruce Willis etc?
What other types of film genres would Lee dip his toe into? comedy? murder mystery? war?

Much obliged!

 

[David-Shiell]

Martial Arts movies would become further integrated into American pop culture. Look for a mess of American made low to no budget kung fu actioners trying to compete with Chinese and Hong Kong productions, only happening sooner.

 

[Strategos' Risk]

ahem

Bruce Lee makes The Warrior, it becomes The Godfather for Chinese Americans

If you like martial arts media or period piece prestige dramas at all, you owe it to yourself and the spirit of Bruce Lee to watch Cinemax’s Warrior based on the writings of the dragon himself, about a highly fictionalized version of the Tong Wars that took place in San Francisco’s Chinatown...

www.alternatehistory.com

 

[THeaven]

I'm fairly certain Columbia pictures would approach him for the Mr. Miyagi role in The Karate Kid

 

[Strategos' Risk]

Martial Arts movies would become further integrated into American pop culture. Look for a mess of American made low to no budget kung fu actioners trying to compete with Chinese and Hong Kong productions, only happening sooner.

'80s action movies being invented as a genre a decade earlier + before the Japanese economic rise led to the importing of karate/ninja/samurai pop culture would be interesting

 

[GeographyDude]

Maybe Bruce and one of the major Hollywood could hit the sweet spot with middle-budget movies?

And furthermore, let’s say they’re able to do what you could never do with high-budget, and that’s to come out with a film a year. They even time it for the beginning of the Summer season, and keep this rhythm going for a good five years, maybe more.

 

[flippikat]

I can see a series of "variation on karate" films - Karate Western, Karate Noir, Karate Sci-Fi. Heck even Karate-Romance... if an element becomes more successful than OTL, the studios could be tempted to see how pliable that element is.

 

[David-Shiell]

I can see a series of "variation on karate" films - Karate Western, Karate Noir, Karate Sci-Fi. Heck even Karate-Romance... if an element becomes more successful than OTL, the studios could be tempted to see how pliable that element is.

Basically Jean Claude Van Damme's entire body of work.

 

[Aisha Clan-Clan]

'80s action movies being invented as a genre a decade earlier + before the Japanese economic rise led to the importing of karate/ninja/samurai pop culture would be interesting

80s action movies being invented before we saw boomer parents starting to freak out more about violence means decent-sized cultural butterflies due to having a wider view of what's acceptable for movie/tv and to a lesser extent other mediums.