Warrior star Joe Taslim gives fans an unpleasant update on the series' future on Netflix.
In a September 22 post, Taslim wrote: “Many times, wherever I go, people come up to me and say thank you for Warrior. Now I know the true meaning of actor.” Taslim continued, “The third season is the last, we don't have the chance to continue the story. But still so grateful. Thank you.”
Created by showrunner Jonathan Tropper and based on original writings and concepts by the late martial arts legend Bruce Lee, Warrior debuted on Cinemax in 2019 and ran for two seasons before moving to Max for its third and final season. The series is executive produced by Tropper along with five others, including Lee's daughter, Shannon Lee, best known to Millennial fans for her work as the host of the short-lived series' first season WMAC Masters way back in 1997.
Warrior's story is over after three seasons
Warrior Andrew Koji stars as Ah Sahm, a Chinese martial arts expert who travels from his homeland to San Francisco to search for his sister. Set during the infamous Tong Wars of the 1870s, Ah Sahm finds himself sold to one of Chinatown’s most powerful tongs, kicking off a pulse-pounding epic that sees forces besiege the series from all sides. Warrior features an ensemble cast that includes the much-loved Olivia Cheng as Ah Toy, a Chinatown madam and dao master, Jason Tobin as Ah Sahm's friend Young Jun, Christian McKay as the evil mayor Samuel Blake, Dianne Doan as the Long Zii Ton leader's wife Mai Ling, and Tom Weston-Jones as the surprisingly tolerant Confederate soldier turned California cop Richard Henry Lee.
The third season of Warrior suffered a two-and-a-half-year delay, due in part to the 2023 WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes, leaving many fans wondering if the series would ever have the chance to tie up many of its loose ends. In 2023, shortly after the release of Warrior Season 3, Tropper spoke to CBR about the difficult task of creating explosive action sequences without going overboard and breaking the audience's immersion in the show as a whole. “Our rule of thumb has always been that the fights have to be an extension of the storytelling,” Tropper said at the time. “As long as the fights that happen because of [the events] in the story, the characters that are fighting are developing their characters through fighting, and the way they fight and what they fight for, you should never feel like they're taking you out of the show. That's always been the goal.”
Warrior is currently available for streaming on Peacock in the United States
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