First poster and trailer for Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon: Sword of Destiny

Despite the worldwide critical and box office success of Ang Lee’s Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon in 2000, there wasn’t much clamoring for a sequel.

Netflix is firmly behind Sword of Destiny having brokered a deal with The Weinstein Company, though whether feature length sequel can possibly recapture the genre-defining spirit of Lee’s original is still up for question. There’s lot’s of gravity-defying sword fights. And then there’s the boring subtitled that nearly sounds like a parody (hi, Tenacious D) and the completely lazy tagline, “The past returns with a vengeance”. Director, Woo-Ping Yuen, who directed a plethora Chinese martial arts classics like Jackie Chan’s watershed film, Drunken Master as well as star, Donnie Yen’s early films like Drunken Tai Chi and Tiger Cage and Iron Monkey heads this enormous effort.

For a time, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon was available on Netflix and ranked in our rankings of the 50 Best Movies on Netflix and the 50 Best Action Movies on Netflix.

The film is set to hit select IMAX theaters, as well as Netflix, on February 26. John Fusco (Young Guns) wrote the script based on Du Lu Wang’s book Iron Knight, Silver Vase, which is part of the same series of novels which spawned the original film.