In 1972, Bruce Lee had completed his initial two-picture deal with Raymond Chow's Golden Harvest production company. Fearing that he would join rivals Shaw Brothers under a lucrative new contract that he couldn't match, Chow offered Lee something that Shaw Brothers hadn't; the freedom to write, direct and co-produce his next movies under a new joint production company, Concord Productions. The first movie made under Concord Productions would be The Way of the Dragon, originally titled Enter the Dragon during production.