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Wu tang Klan member RZA is proving to be arguably the most versatile individual in entertainment! A bold statement like that could only be backed up when you take a look at his career as a rapper while simultaneously scoring big budget films — then moving on to screenwriting, acting, producing and now directing.
The rapper has just signed onto to direct two more projects, John Milius’ biopic of Genghis Khan and the action thriller No Man’s Land. | Full Story
Some new photos surfaced online featuring RZA’s latest project, The Man with the Iron Fists. Eli Roth(Hostel), who co-authored the screenplay along with RZA, recently confirmed that the film is going to be more then just your average kung fu flick.
“We wanted to make a movie that showed our love for those old kung-fu movies, but we also wanted to make it modern, with hip-hop,” Roth told the LA Times. | Full Story
The new redband trailer for THe Man With The Iron Fists has recently hit the internet.
This is the second trailer for the film and it’s different from the first because there’s a bunch of new footage. The new footage looks great. Actually, by this appearance, it looks as though The Man With The Iron Fists may be the best martial arts influenced that have been released in a while.
One may wonder why is there so many stars, including Russell Crowe, Pam Grier and Lucy Liu signed on to a RZA created and directed film? | Full Story
Universal has set a release date for RZA and Quentin Tarantino’s The Man With The Iron Fists. The studio revealed at Comic-Con, that the action-adventure film will be in theaters on November 2nd 2012.
Rapper turned-actor RZA, was at Comic-Con on Thursday explaining details about the movie. The Man With The Iron Fists story is based on a weapon making blacksmith (RZA) from a small village in China, who is put in the position where he must defend himself and his fellow villagers. | Full Story
The trailer for The Man With The Iron Fists has just been released.
Hip Hop’s RZA makes his debut as a feature director and leading actor in the movie described as “the epic story of warriors, assassins and a lone outsider hero in nineteenth-century China who must unite to destroy the clan traitor who would destroy them all.”
The Man With The Iron Fists is partially produced by acclaimed director Quentin Tarantino. | Full Story
The promotion for Man With The Iron Fists is well underway. After the first photo surfaced showing RZA in action on set of Quinten Tarentino’s marshal arts movie, a new hi-res poster for the film has hit the web. The poster features Russell Crowe, Jamie Chung, Lucy Liu, Pam Grier, Rick Yune, Byron Mann and of course RZA.
The film will follow RZA’s titular blacksmith through his life in feudal China as he makes weapons for a small village. | Full Story
The first image for RZA’s The Man With The Iron Fists has been released. While on the set of the film, RZA sent a picture from a scene to actress Pam Grier via Twitter.
“@PamGrier 1st peek at snap shot of “Iron Fist” full trailer on IGN.com in 2 days pic.twitter.com/0dEIvRlV”
Along with the tweet, the rapper turned actor also attached the above photo, which is the first official look at The Man With The Iron Fists. | Full Story
Back in March it was reported that actor Michael K. Williams will be playing rapper Ol’Dirty Bastard in the upcoming movie Dirty White Boy. Since then, the actor has spoken out about what direction the film will be going.
According to a synopsis on IMDB, the movie will tell the story of Ol’ Dirty Bastard (real name Russel Jones) and his relationship with his white manager Jarred Weisfeld. The story will also go into the rapper’s struggle with his well known addictions. | Full Story
Paramount Pictures has just released the full TV spot for ‘G.I. Joe: Retaliation’ that is set to fire during this Sunday’s Super Bowl. Check it out in the player below!
In the sequel to ‘G.I. Joe: Rise of the Cobra’, the G.I. Joes are not only going up against their mortal enemy Cobra; they are forced to repel threats from the government that will jeopardize their very existence.
The film stars D.J. | Full Story
‘The Man With the Iron Fist’ starring RZA and Jamie Chung, and produced by Quentin Tarantino is well into post production now and ComingSoon got a chance to build with Jamie Chung and asked about starring in RZA’s film.
She goes on to say that the first cut was four hours long and RZA stated he wanted to split it into two movies! However, the producers weren’t too thrilled about that idea. | Full Story
Movies have enriched Dan Schindel's life so much that he decided
the best way to give back was to become a critic. In addition to Who Got the
Role?, he writes for ScreenPicks, We Are Movie Geeks, Off to
See the Elephant, and several other sites. He spent a year watching and
reviewing a documentary every day for his blog, Days of Docs, so now he
knows everything.
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