THE MAN WITH THE IRON FISTS Original Cut Is Four Hours Long

Let’s do a quick recap! Rapper/actor RZA , has been making his own Kung Fu Movie with friend Eli Roth. The title is THE MAN WITH THE IRON FIST co-starring Russell Crowe, Jamie Chung, Lucy Liu, and Pam Grier, the project is also produced by another martial art flick fan, Quentin Tarantino. RZA has worked with Crowe before on American Gangster
THE MAN WITH THE IRON FISTS stars and is directed by RZA as the title character, “a blacksmith who forges weapons for the inhabitants of a village in feudal China. They are forced to defend themselves, and before you know it, everybody is kung fu fighting.” Crowe’s role is not yet revealed but RZA said Crowe will have a fair share of on screen fighting and that his character will be the “baddest man alive”
Chung chatted with comingsoon and described the film..

“The original cut was four hours long and RZA was like, ‘Let’s turn it into two movies! [Producer] Eli [Roth] was like, ‘Eh…’”
“They’re really excited and I have complete faith in RZA, he’s a genius when it comes to these things and he knows the genre so well. So, it’s cut down to an hour and a half. Now he’s working on the music. Everyone is stoked but it will have that cool feel like ’36th Chamber of Shaolin’ or ‘Five Deadly Venoms.’ It’s definitely a delicacy and Russell Crowe is doing some amazing things that you would never see him do in film. It’s a fun movie. I think it may come out in August.”

I’m always up for a Kung Fu flick, I haven’t had any favorite in recent years but some of my favorites when I was growing up were Drunken Master movies with Jackie Chan and The Fist Of Legend starring Jet Li.