Kung Fu Crowe's Iron Fist!

PaganKing

Russell Crowe and The RZA in a Kung Fu movie together, with the rap star directing. This will be interesting to see in the least.


http://ca.eonline.com/uberblog/marc_malkin/b200173_russell_crowe_unleashes_kung_fu_moves.html

Hip-hop artist and actor RZA tells me that Crowe has signed on to costar with him in The Man With the Iron Fist, a kung fu flick the Wu-Tang Clan founder is also directing.

RZA will play a weapons-making village blacksmith in feudal China—and as for Crowe, RZA doesn't want to say too much.

"I won't spoil it for you, but Russell's gonna be the baddest man alive," he told me yesterday at the VMAs. "That man is in fighting shape. That man will knock you out."

The Man With the Iron Fist (no relation to the Marvel Comic superhero Iron Fist) starts shooting in Shanghai in December. "It's nerve-wracking," RZA said of directing Crowe. "He's a master of the craft. I'm quite sure that I may learn something from him."

Crowe and RZA worked together three years ago in Ridley Scott's American Gangster. They even recorded a song together, but GangsterThe Next Three Days from director Paul Haggis.

The Wu-Tang Clan founder began developing the project about five years ago with the help of Quentin Tarantino and director/actor Eli Roth, the latter now a cowriter and coproducer of the flick.

Universal reportedly green lighted Iron Fist in May with a $20 million budget.

MisterAnarchy

Sounds like "Russell Crowe Fightin Round the World" the Movie.:D
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GF7YSVx0eGc

PaganKing

MisterAnarchy wrote: »

Sounds like "Russell Crowe Fightin Round the World" the Movie.:D
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GF7YSVx0eGc

"The problem with the little Chinese Fellas, It that they kick with their feet!"

Skerries

yeah but will it be as good as Black Dynamite!

PaganKing

Skerries wrote: »

yeah but will it be as good as Black Dynamite!

I wouldn't say it would be as funny, as this project seems to be more in the vein of a Kill Bill yet even moreso leaning toward a modern version of a Shaw Brothers/Golden Harvest Kung fu movie. RZA is well known for love of those movies so I'd say this will be more of a love letter to those rather than a spoof.

The Recliner

This has the makings of an epic

RZA knows his kung fu movies and can produce a stunning soundtrack to boot

If Crowe has a little fun with it then who knows, when he is in the mood the man has serious screen presence

JP Liz V1

I wonder will Crowe and Rza do a duet for the soundtrack