I started looking into horse history books and came across the actual story of this half-breed endurance horseman and his painted mustang Hidalgo. I wasn’t really sure if I was going to do the movie at that point. John Fusco Read Quote
Being a student of Wuxia literature, I was aware ‘Crouching Tiger’ was book four in the ‘Crane Iron Pentalogy.’ John Fusco Read Quote
At a young age, when I was fascinated with China, I read ‘The Travels of Marco Polo’ and learned about this exciting, dramatic world he captured and reported on. He’s so little known, but yet this mythology has survived that’s so misrepresentative of his story. John Fusco Read Quote
I got the feeling: It’s time to do a Marco Polo story. I felt like everything was lining up right because long-form television series were becoming to me like the new great American novel. John Fusco Read Quote
When people hear the name ‘Marco Polo,’ they tend to think of a map or explorer. Very few people know the true story of Marco Polo, and it’s so much more compelling and exciting than the mythology. John Fusco Read Quote
When I was growing up I spent a lot of time reading about ancient China and was really fascinated. John Fusco Read Quote
He was an Italian kid traveling in China, and I’m of Italian decent with a fascination for China. So, I always felt this connection to him and lived vicariously through the travels of Marco Polo. John Fusco Read Quote
We’re not just making ‘Marco Polo,’ we’re living it. Because we traveled to Venice… Kazakhstan… into the jungles of Malaysia. John Fusco Read Quote
It always circled back around to Marco Polo and Kublai Khan. That always fascinated me because so few people make the connection between the two. John Fusco Read Quote
