Huo Yuanjia
The descendants of Huo Yuanjia were so upset by how their ancestor was portrayed in "Fearless", as well as by the historical inaccuracies in the film, that they launched a lawsuit against Jet Li and the film's producers and distributors in March 2006. Huo Shoujin, an 81-year-old grandson of Huo Yuanjia, stated he was unhappy that the movie showed Huo Yuanjia causing "trouble", which led to the deaths of his mother and daughter. Huo Shoujin also denounced the filmmakers for depicting his grandfather as a violent fighter. In December 2006, a court in Beijing dismissed the case, saying "Fearless" was an exaggerated and fictitious portrait of Huo Yuanjia but it "contained no defamatory or libelous depictions".