Buried in this Billboard chat with The RZA is the first announcement of a new project he’s working on with horror poster boy and David Copperfield doppleganger Eli Roth…
“RZA has developed a martial arts film with Hollywood pal Eli Roth called The Man with the Iron Fist, which he says has “the blessing” of his ‘teacher,’ Quentin Tarantino…”
These three guys! Let’s hope video from Tarantino’s “blessing” surfaces on the DVD. Common sense would dictate that The Man With the Iron Fist is categorically unrelated to Marvel’s kung-fu fighting character of the same name. Roth is a longtime fan of chopsockey; maybe he’ll cast friend Matthew Helms, a 19-year-old martial artist and actor who played the lovely “Pan Cake Dennis” in his Cabin Fever? Here’s the ridic clip.
We reported previously that RZA has completed a collaboration with Hans Zimmer on the score to Babylon A.D. And for the Wu-literate, RZA says that he may finally, finally get around to editing and releasing his Bobby Digital blaxploitation movie, which focuses on the “science lab origins” of his neoghetto alter-ego, a violent playboy who wears a $1 party mask, drives ‘rraris and makes no sense.
Discuss: Do RZA + QT + Roth equal the new Night at the Roxbury? What will Eli Roth-fu look like? I guess the obvious answer is…something like Pan Cake Dennis?
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July 4th, 2008 at 10:48 am
Yawns!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
But the bobby digital movie id love to see!!!
July 4th, 2008 at 11:18 am
I think this film is going to a straight to DVD or won’t be made or one d them will fall out.
July 4th, 2008 at 12:33 pm
That’s great news… Now two of my personal favorite young american filmmakers are working with some of my faovrite musicians…
Eli Roth - RZA
Richard Kelly - Win Butler + Owen Pallet + Régine Chassagne (aka some of the strongest members of the Arcade Fire)
Of course, this would depend on if RZA is scoring the film he is co-developing with Roth.(which is likely) And Yeah, I said it… Kelly and Roth are two of my favorite Young american filmmakers. Let the hate begin.
July 4th, 2008 at 1:07 pm
Kung-Fu torture porn. Oh, neat.
July 4th, 2008 at 11:30 pm
Pancakes!! Pancakes!! Pancakes!!
July 5th, 2008 at 11:25 am
If the last Wu-Tang Clan video, The Heart Gently Weeps, is any indication of RZA’s film mastering skills, it makes me very sad. And this guy has had 100s of projects he touched and let down. Just go look up Z-Chronicles, his unfinsihed Kung Fu attempt.
July 5th, 2008 at 8:17 pm
This is a better indication I think- http://youtube.com/watch?v=57athY1a0nU
He didn’t direct it but I’m sure from the martial arts he had a big hand in it.