RZA is The Man With The Iron Fist

[Aesop Rocks]

The RZA’s career in the movies reportedly started with a call from Harvey Weinstein. Here’s how he tells it, in an impersonation of the big man. The phone went, he picked it up, there was a raspy voice and it said:

Hey RZA, it’s Harvey. I want you to be in my movie. You got a new career now.

That movie was Derailed, Mikael Halfstrom’s thriller with Jennifer Aniston and Clive Owen. Since then, a series of supporting roles and scoring gigs have seen RZA keep his side careers spinning nicely but all of his notable achievements were still on wax, courtesy of the music made through his membership of the Wu Tang Clan. However, that may be about to change with his next step up the cinematic ladder and the advent of his debut as a writer-director. Fingers crossed that The Man With the Iron Fist is a movie as good as his hip hop.

Producer Eli Roth has told The LA Times how confident he is that film will be a winner:

RZA is such a creative fountain. The script is great, he’s got characters, jokes. What he does with lyrics, he does with dialogue and he’s done such a great mix: spaghetti western, kung fu, modern fighting infused with hip-hop and multiculture. He has this whole comic book universe figured out. I know he’s going to make a brilliant film.

The man himself says that the film will offer:

Kung fu but not grindhouse. Something that’s modern, like Blade

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Sounds a bit… Kill Bill? Maybe.
I can’t help but be optimistic. This man certainly knows his martial arts and Chinese action films. He’s also formed a close relationship with John Woo, one of the greatest directors the genre has ever known.

For many years, I was getting my lessons from John. His movie Bullet in the Head, he said I can make it over. He said, “You will get no resistance from me.”

Personally, I love RZA's work. Especailly in my favorite animated series of all time: Afro Samurai and Afro Samurai: Ressurection. I CANNOT wait!
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[Dr. Evil]

I'm interested.....because I happen to like the Wu Tang Clan and all of things he's done as a solo music producer.

 

[Anubis]

Whoa, whoa, whoa, Wait a minute, he wrote the script for Marvel's Iron Fist?

 

[Octoberist]

I think The Rza is one talented dude.

 

[Watchman]

Whoa, whoa, whoa, Wait a minute, he wrote the script for Marvel's Iron Fist?

No, it's an original movie.

I'm down for this, sounds fantastic. We don't enough good martial arts action movies.

Let's just hope it's better than Ninja Assassin.

 

[Aesop Rocks]

Whoa, whoa, whoa, Wait a minute, he wrote the script for Marvel's Iron Fist?

If only...

 

[Blitzkrieg Bop]

Or as Ridley Scott calls him, "Rizz."

 

[Ratcrawler]

I dunno if Iron Fist can carry a movie by himself. Though him teaming up with Luke Cage could be golden.

 

[Aesop Rocks]

This isn't the comic.

 

[MessiahDecoy123]

Will this be straight to video because I doubt it will appeal to the mainstream.

I'll support RZA though. Hope he brings back the old school shaw bros flava.

 

[Octoberist]

i'm sure it'll be indie and it'll be in limited release like Black Dynamite.