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RZA to Wield His Liquid Swords on the Big Screen!
When the Mr. Beaks came to live out his name...
File this under "What took you so fucking long?": the RZA is making his writing-directing debut with a kung-fu flick called THE MAN WITH THE IRON FIST. The brilliant hip-hop producer has been obsessed with the genre for ages, and there have been intimations lately that he might try his hand as a filmmaker. But no one thought to ask around until today. All it took was an email from CHUD's Devin Faraci to Eli Roth to get the info:
Yes, it is true. RZA's script is amazing. He has been studying directing with Tarantino for years, and he's really ready to get behind the camera.
Okay. A Roth-produced, Tarantino-mentored Shaw Brothers homage directed by RZA has serious potential. If I could get worked up over Rob Zombie's HOUSE OF 1,000 CORPSES, I can certainly get giddy at the thought of the Wu-Tang Clan's nerve center transferring his imagination to the visual medium. Roth is promising plenty of blood, so don't expect no four-quadrant bullshit. This shit sounds good, Bill Murray!
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like 14 years too late
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I've never heard of him.
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Killer. Can't wait.
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wu tang clan aint nothin to fuck wit
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The RZA making a film under Tarantinos wings? I wonder how much influence QT will actually have, I love the RZA, but I could see this movie being garbage very easily, hope not though.
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But this will kill Ray Park in Iron Fist.
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i mean...RZA produced it, but still.
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But the shogun was scared of him. Maybe that was the problem.
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A kung fu movie called , in part - Iron Fist? If this isnt the Marvel comics character, Im betting Marvel steps in and makes them change the title. Thats the name of their Kung Fu Superhero
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Will Power Man be in it as well?
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buy the new iron fist series, its fucking amazing. read the first 16 issues of the latest series and you can just imagine it as a spectacular marvel movie.
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Count me in. I can't wait!
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There should be a training montage where they both film long ass dialog sequences, have all the women shove their feet in front of the camera and doing dozens of lines of coke together.
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wake the fuck up
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Hoping this is good. There aren't nearly enough kung fu movies in theaters these days. Probably because most of them are DTV garbage...
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Even if the film is set in 1600s China? We've already seen it in the 1970s (American Gangster). I want to see that thing travel through time.
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then someone like RZA, who actually makes good music to begin with, should be sitting in the director's chair.
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July 7, 2008, 7:13 a.m. CST
Eli Roth, Wu-Tang Clan's RZA & post Death Proof Tarantino...
by Sledge Hammer
Now if that's not a recipe for prime black hole level suckage, well, frankly I'll be very, very, VERY surprised. On the upside though, at least the local coke dealers will feel just a little bit more secure in their futures while these three hoovers are hanging together.
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Written and Directed by RZA, Starring Bobby Digital, or Written and Directed by Bobby Digital, Starring RZA
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The Genius better have a bit part in this. But oh yeah, this is the coolest bit of news on this whole page right now. I'm already clearing DVD shelf space.
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Damn You Michael Bay
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I mean, a lot of movies. Check his IMDB. He deserves a shot at this.
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I hope that the GZA and Ghostface get in on this. Same wit my boi Method Man. HOLLA!
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This project could go in a shitload of different directions. And many of them would be cool. But I'd like to see this as a serious kung Fu film, no gymics. This film should be like it was made in the seventies with an all Chinese cast. As for the music of course it would be cool if RZA did the soundtrack, but i think he should hold back on this and have no hip hop in it at all. Keep it authentic. Shot on film, not digital and no CG. I'm sure RZA and Tarrentino would definitely be down with the no CG rule, just like Kill Bill was. Instead of going the obvious route and making this a trilogy, I'd like to see RZA make totally separate Kung-Fu films, with seperate characters and actors. It would be cool if his SECOND Kung-fu film mixed the genres of SCI-FI and Kung-fu. But this first film should be straight, old school Kung-fu, in terms of the filmmaking process as well. And he's GOTTA film this in Chinese language and dub it in post with English for the US release. I have faith RZA will get this right .
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Are all the characters going to have trouble pronouncing their W's, too?
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a Bobby Digital movie. Go see that piece of shit before you get too excited. I'm guessing it'll look something like the end of the Gravel Pit video. We can just move on now....
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This movie will fail unless that chubby motherfucker is seen doing flying kicks and flips and whatnot.
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Direct to my RCA tele via Sci-Fi.
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Make a movie by RZA and then have to re-edit it to incorporate music by RZA? I mean hows that going to work? Is he going to put music in it first, just so they can re-edit it to put different RZA music in it?
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..how to pronounce "sword"? Hint: the "w" is silent.
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July 7, 2008, 10:30 a.m. CST
Yo chill with the feedback black we don't need that
by long live the new chris
It's ten o'clock hoe, where the fuck's your seed at
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Congrats to him! How lucky is he to have learned the way he learned?
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Hopefully it's not Ray Park. I dig Ray Park, but he's all kinds of wrong for Danny Rand.
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Shame on any nigga who doesn't think this is cool news. Every bit of it is cool, and anyone who uses Tarantino as leverage to say otherwise is a fucking pissant.
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I was talking to someone the other day about Vivica Fox being badass in Kill Bill 1 and Michale Jai White. I think a reasonable priced series of movies like Foxy Brown with Kung Fu could be sweet. Just use the Bourne method of fighting with a little wire-fu kick. It could be really fun.
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RZA has ties with his from Ghost Dog with Jarmusch. He could play a great Main Villian. I have no problem with hip hop playing a major role in the music, better than the repetitive techno you get in most action flicks, I'm looking at you Blade.
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As in booooooo. Who cares. Rappers, ugh.
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Better some Tarantino apprentice than no Tarantino at all
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..but no, it's a different thing. When I first read this, thought "finally that old MARVEL project is picking up".. but no
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...file this under "could fucking care less"
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could be a perfect comeback vehicle for Chuck Norris. Just like Tarantino did for Travolta. <p> <p> Come on, Tarantino. I know you read these boards. Do it!!!! Norris = ratings!!!
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First of all if you don't like Quentin Tarantino you're fucking crazy! And if you do like all of his Brilliant films why wouldn't you be excited for a movie by a guy who writes some kick ass music who Quentin mentored?! Granted the only RZA music I've heard is the Kill Bill soundtrack....but that shit kicked ass! And you should check out his IMDB page cause he's done a lot of cool shit! I'm excited!
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Rob Zombie kicks ass!!!! Most of you people are so closed minded it drives me NUTS! Expand your horizons!!!!
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As long as they get DMX and Anthony Anderson involved somehow this could be a fuckin' masterpiece!!
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Nigga fuck that, I can't waaaaait!
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Nice try Mr. Beaks<p><P>this is dope news even if Mr beaks don't know wu tang for nas.
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RZA produced Liquid Swords.
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...that no matter how the film turns out, the soundtrack will fucking ROCK!
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Bummer. Where are you, man?
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guess its back to wax on wax off for me!
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including liquid swords
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He is also the music producer of Wu Tang Clan, a martial artist, close friend of Tarantino, a vegetarian, and did the score for Kill Bill: Volume One.
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Kalon Reza needs better material ASAP
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...and you join me. Choose the ball, and you join your mother in death. You do not understand, but you must choose.
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How could you not be excited about this? Kung-fu movies are RZA's life, and he's been studying filmmaking since the Kill Bill days.
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What was that, like 4 years ago? Man, he's like a pioneer of the genre then!
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the ONLY Iron Fist is Danny Fucking Rand. I hope Marvel Studios takes a good look at the current Brubaker/Fraction series and do a seriously good kung fu pic, not some Tarentinoesque blaxploitation film like this RZA thing is likely to be. And I know Ray Park's always wanted to do the Iron Fist thing, but seriously, get a real actor. Park can do a one-note villain or something.
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Don't be a douche. The guy has watched kung-fu movies since childhood, and took 4+ years to study the craft, in the field, before attempting his own feature. I respect that.
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Eli Roth should put that albino "pancakes!" kid from Cabin Fever in this. He must be grown up by now, and it looked like he knew martial arts from what I remember. PANCAKES!!!
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Looks like I'm finally gonna be getting that long-awaited sequel to The Last Dragon... and I agree with you, oisin. Danny Rand, period.
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I'll watch it with mild anticipation.
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BRILLIANT HIP-HOP PRODUCER. 36 CHAMBERS is a fucking masterpiece of any genre. Period.
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Dare I say it I think its even better than the 36 Chambers. And if you don't know what I'm talking about, or who RZA or GZA is, you really, really need to put down the hoagie, cake, pizza, and icecream, leave Mom's basement, and get a fucking life.
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seems as though you've mastered wikipedia.
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Since RZA got drafted by the asians a few years back, does that mean he's going to make it as a Japanese movie only to have a shitty Americanized remake come out 2 years later?
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Put that in the movie and you will be the coolest person on Earth, RZA.
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"liquid swords" is not better than "36 chambers," though maybe close. i think it's about on the same level as raekwon's "only built 4 cuban linx" ghostface's "ironman" and "supreme clientele." but you are correct that if you like music and you don't know shit about wu-tang then you need to get your priorities straight.
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They have a martial arts movie historian on with him and it's not long before the guy is laughing in disbelief at how much more RZA knows about the movie than he does. He starts asking RZA questions. He seems like he thinks he's being Punk'd by the time RZA is talking about his visit to the actual Shaolin Temple.<p> But I will keep my excitement in check because as somebody mentioned RZA already directed a martial arts movie called BOBBY DIGITAL, but it never came out. He at least shot some of it, because I saw a trailer with lots of footage. I'm guessing it made no sense.<p> Whatever he comes up with he needs Jim Jarmusch as executive soundtrack producer so he can tell him to stop fucking around and do another score worthy of GHOST DOG.
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LAWL
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...and he told me there were krunk people all over the place!
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So glad Kung Fu movies are cool again. Oh wait, they always were cool. Much like Elvis.
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see my name. I am THE kung fu maniac
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'Cause if it was, I'm not surprised RZA knew more than he does. <P>Meyers strikes me as a fanboy, not a historian. I've read his books, and heard some of his commentaries, and he comes across as more self-absorbed than actually knowledgeable.<P> But you've got my interest piqued. Now I need to listen to that commentary.
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It was the GZA's second album. That shit is classic son.
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is a massive tool shed. YOu seen that interview he does with Stephen Chow on the Kung Fu Hustle (ahem) DVD? Could they have picked a bigger asshole to bother such a cool film creator?
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RZA raped GetFarkedYouKarnt's mother
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July 7, 2008, 6:34 p.m. CST
This is the only man who could wrangle the ODB into making a coh
by JusticeSabre
And edit the madness that was Wu-Tang Clan into solid albums for the latter half of the 90s. <p> <p> I wouldn't expect his film to be Oscar quality, but it'd be as entertaining as the Saturday matinee Shaw Bros flicks he grew up on. <p> <p> I'd check it if it were included in "Grindhouse 2" or something.
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July 7, 2008, 6:35 p.m. CST
This is the only man who could wrangle the ODB into making a coh
by JusticeSabre
And edit the madness that was Wu-Tang Clan into solid albums for the latter half of the 90s. <p> <p> I wouldn't expect his film to be Oscar quality, but it'd be as entertaining as the Saturday matinee Shaw Bros flicks he grew up on. <p> <p> I'd check it if it were included in "Grindhouse 2" or something.
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And I am knee deep in coke and hookers as I write this. Don't Hate.
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"I will FUCK they ass UP"
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I'm up for this,the first wave of Wu-tang albums were excellent.Good luck to the RZA,I hope he uses a style based on Ghostface Killahs eagle bracelet.I posted these links in the Dr Who TB but they might be of interest to some of you.http://tinyurl.com/msvpy.http://tinyurl.com/62n84n
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36 Chambers is one of the great rap albums of all time. I hope this movie takes place in the slums of Shaolin. The bad guy should sew somebody's asshole shut and keep feedin them and feedin them and feedin them and feedin them. At some point.
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I say give RZA a chance. It can't be an worse than most of the shit that Hollywood has be ramming down our throats and calling them "movies." Rza has be a huge fan of kung-fu movies, so a fan of he genre should give it a shot. Fuck it, I say. I'm up for some thing new from some one new. I'm tired of the same old bullshit just rehashed and served up under a new name. As long as it come out good, fuck all of Hollywood!
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RZA WAS THE HEART BEHIND WU TANG AND ALSO THE GRAZEDIGGAZ(RIP) I'M ON BOARD FOR THIS ONE. I LOVES ME SOME O THAT KUNG FU. I HOPE HE SCORES THE FILM AS WELL
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I don't understand why so many lament rappers getting into the movie biz. They're bound to actually make a decent movie one of these days.<p>Oh man. I just laughed so hard I gave myself an aneurysm. Quick! Somebody call 911!
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The RZA has impressive movie credits already try pulling your head out of ass when you talk my man.
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But both are fucking classics, hands down. Anyone who says that serious artistic work cannot be done within the confines of the hip-hop genre is a closed-minded asshole.
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And no at all of the White guys here do that BUT enough do. And it pisses me off. Black people not only support movies by Whites we spend our hard earned dollars. Yet let there be a mention of a Black person doing a movie or whatever and there is a tidal wave of hate. If you don't like it then don't post you idiots because we all know you'd never voice your bigotry to my or any Black man's face except safely behind your screen. LOSERS!
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a rapper, from what I'm reading? Making movies? Should we care? Being that AiCN is primarily a movie site, I can understand that some people won't give the benefit of the doubt to a rapper making movies as a hobby. It'd be no different if Martin Scorsese wanted to do a rap album. Would a rap-oriented website give him the time of day? Should they?
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Right you are - a bunch of racist morons constantly lurking on this site. I'm glad to see some of the non-bigots speaking up, but I wish there were more.
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RZA's much more than Some Rapper. This isn't Lil Wayne or Mike Jones making Lil Wayne or Mike Jones: The Movie. RZA doesn't have Scarface playing constantly on his bigscreen, he actually knows Kung Fu flicks (He also knows Kung Fu). It's fun to take a dump on him, of course, but maybe uh, listen to a Bobby Digital album all the way through and read an interview with him. You can remain ign'ant if you like, but if you choose not to understand the subject you're dissing, you kind of have an obligation to shut the fuck up.
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Dramacidal not sure where you're going with that.
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RZA and GZA do a skit int that with fucking Bill Murry. It's hilarious.
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Playing the race card? What the Hell does that mean? It seems every time folks get called on their blatant racism someone whips out that lame excuse about "playing the race card". If an attack is based on one's belief that there is a lack of talent, lack of experience, etc., that's fine. But we all know that the first thing that comes to mind when "rapper" is mentioned is a young Black man and the negative reaction is ofetn based on nothing more than that. To me that's racism at work - playing the race card has nothing to do with it. Also, don't be so sure our next president will be Black - despite what people might say to pollsters, let's just see what they do in the privacy of the voting booth (remember Tom Brady in Los Angeles). Also, I know it makes an amusing punchline for a joke, but does anyone really believe that if Obama becomes president that racism will no longer be a factor in this country?
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No wonder you picked that name - you are FULL of drama! (among other things!) It doesn't take a mind reader to understand the code words. I am well aware that there are rappers of all races and ethnicities, and I think that's great. But just ask the average person the first image that comes to mind when they hear the word "rapper" and I think you'll find I am correct. Also, I never called you a racist - I said there were racists lurking on this site, and all you have to do is read some of the comments to know that. As for the comment about racism disappearing if Obama is elected, was it not you who made the snide remark that a Black man is about to become President, and followed up with "Whitey ain't holding you down anymore, play-uh"? We do agree on one thing, however, racism will always be here. Just like there will always be folks who pretend it's not an issue when it is.
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