Comment by effingwewt

This is mentioned in the article. They wanted essentially to own the IP to every martial arts move Li would have recorded for them, allowing them to essentially have him or even just his moves with someone else's face superimposed, so what would they need the actors for at that point?

And of you are just going to digitally do the fight scenes then why not just use moves already recorded without any IP?

Seems to me like he was smart to Nope TF out.