Writer's fractured fairy tale laid path to 'Forbidden Kingdom' (1/3ページ)

Martial arts legends Jackie Chan and Jet Li talked about shooting a film together for more than a decade, but it took a children's bedtime story to make it happen.

Screenwriter John Fusco says the first incarnation of "Forbidden Kingdom," the Chan-Li team-up that hit theaters April 18, was born as a multi-part story he would tell his young son before bed.

"It started to grow night after night," Fusco says. "I had no intentions of doing it as a movie, but as I got deeper into it, I realized that what I really was doing was creating a kind of love letter to the martial arts heroes of my childhood."