Anyone hear about this lately?
I read some stuff on it last year or the year b4 it was supposed to star the guy who played darth maul i believe.
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Anyone hear about this lately?
I read some stuff on it last year or the year b4 it was supposed to star the guy who played darth maul i believe.
currently in production limbo...
so my sources tell me that this movie is a go ahead. with ray park playing iron fist. theven got veteran hong kong star and real life triad michael chan wai man(you can read this old but amazing interview with him here saw it on the kungfy cinema forum and had to post it here) when i told my friend that chan wai man was the real deal in terms of fighting and that he's is or was a real life triad he "****" himself. i don;t have a filming date yet (if they didn;t start already) but i will soon. peace guys
Thanks for the info, Doug.
It would be great to see Chan Wai-Man in a new film, seeing him in an American one will be strange but welcome.
yeah my boy is supposed to be A.D.(assistant director) on this film i'm trying to get him to get me in there. told him he should give CWM a wallet that says bad mutha ****a
I sure hope that it doesn't look anything like that Rough cut on you tube....
C'mon...that cannot be serious.
I fell out the chair seeing him run around that corner.
This is obviously a d movie rip.
LOL Banditshaw I almost fell out of my chair too after seeing that clip....
I'm hoping they approach this like the Immortal Iron Fist comics. Let Danny already be Iron Fist and having been Iron Fist for YEARS.
That arc was GREAT!
never really got into ironfist. hmm luke cage should be in this :o
That Youtube thing was some fan film. Amuzing; somewhat.
Luke Cage is apparently due to appear in his own film with John Singelton directing and producing.
yeah and r&b crooner tyrese set to be luke cage which has gotta be th worst pic in the worl. but then again this is the same man who wants ice cube to play BA in the upcoming A-team movie. oh the horror
lol...I heard about that too Doug.
Ice cube could be ok though as Baracus. He's one of the better actors out of the Hip Hop world.
I think Luke Cage should be played by the father in the ''everybody hates chris'' show and he was also in ''balls of fury''.
After a google his IMDB.
Terry Crews
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yeah terry crews would be great, all his roles to date have been comedy so it'll be good to see him do something else. ll cool j would be a another good pic. i'd even cast 50 cent before tyrese.
Progress on Iron Fist
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Marvel Forges 'Iron Fist' Deal With 'xXx' Creator Rich Wilkes
By MIKE FLEMING | Wednesday August 25, 2010 @ 2:31pm EDT
EXCLUSIVE: Marvel Studios is moving forward on a live action feature version of Iron Fist, hiring screenwriter Rich Wilkes to draft a movie based on a martial arts expert whose battle with a dragon--ended when he plunged his hands through the beast's molten heart--turned his fists into indestructible weapons.
Iron Fist was on the minds of many fanboys when Disney paid $4 billion for Marvel's 5000 superhero library and vowed to turn the less obvious comic book heroes into films and TV properties. Marvel tried to make an Iron Fist movie with Artisan nearly a decade ago, as a vehicle for X-Men villain and martial arts expert Ray Park. The Iron Fist comic book mythology was created by Roy Thomas and Gil Kane in the 1970s, when the popularity of martial arts films was on the rise.
Iron Fist was among a bunch of Marvel superhero properties scattered around Hollywood. While tent poles like X-Men, Spider-Man, Ghost Rider, Fantastic Four and a handful of others remain at other studios, Marvel has recaptured rights to many wayward properties and Kevin Feige is hitting the reset button on a bunch of them. Marvel recently began work on Dr. Strange, hiring Conan scribes Thomas Donnelly and Joshua Oppenheimer to generate a film from a superhero property that four studios tried to crack over the years. Both Iron Fist and Dr. Strange will be distributed by Disney. Marvel Studios has four more films under the preexisting distribution deal with Paramount, and those will include Thor, The First Avenger: Captain America, and the Robert Downey Jr.-starrer Iron Man 3. The final film will likely be the Joss Whedon-directed The Avengers, though Marvel is separately working on the youth-oriented Runaways and Ant-Man.
Wilkes is best known for writing the original XXX film that launched a franchise around Vin Diesel's extreme sports hero character. He also scripted the Motley Crue biopic The Dirt, which Paramount just put into turnaround, and he wrote Ballad of the Whiskey Robber for Johnny Depp and Graham King. Wilkes is repped by Verve.
Hope that it is modernized for the times, which means no cheesy green get up.
That's not quite how it happend. He gave that dragon the ultimate Bro-Hug, snuffing out the Dragon's er.. dragon shaped heart. The result left the young Danny Rand with that same dragon image branded to his chest, in black.Quote:
based on a martial arts expert whose battle with a dragon--ended when he plunged his hands through the beast's molten heart--turned his fists into indestructible weapons.
The training that allowed him to beat that dragon also allows him to focus all of that Dragon Qi he absorbed into his fists in classic hard qigong fashion. In theory he could focus that qi into his kick.... but Iron Toe does not make the best super hero name.
You need to re-read what happened Bro, after he defeated the immortal Dragon ( chi shou or whatever the name was) Rand plunged his hands into the heart of the dragon that was NOT in the dragon but in a special "urn".
See the dragon's heart is OUtSIDE the body so when Danny blocks the chi of the dragon, basically blocking the "link" between the dragon and it's disembodied heart.
Dude, Danny Rand hasn't been wearing the 70s outfit for quite some time. Check out Immortal Iron Fist!
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That's Danny with the other Immortal Weapons from the other Heavenly Cities.
Let's not forget Danny's predecessor, Orson Randal:
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And the sword hottie Iron Fist:
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The green and gold are Kun Lun's colors.
Zenshiite, yes, that was my point, I hope they go AT LEAST with that "storyline".
Though I would prefer NO get up at all.
Without the get up it wouldn't be Iron Fist. It'd just be some white guy doing kung fu.
Sure, it's corny... but if Iron Fist is put into a world where there are superheroes and he adopts elements of his predecessor's outfit(a pretty cool Pulp noir deal) and the traditional colors of Kun Lun, Danny's going to look like a superhero when he's exiled in the mortal realm. He's got freaking super chi powers, after all. They could throw in an Avengers reference(and with this being developed by Marvel and their increasingly tied together movie universe they likely will) that's the perfect set up for why Danny dresses the way he does as Iron Fist.
My guess is the first movie will take elements of "The Last Iron First Story" and the origin story with Davos thrown in. Then somehow the 7 Immortal Cities will be told if the first flick does well enough. Maybe we can get a trilogy and get the Eighth Immortal City storyline out of it to boot. I could see an Immortal Weapons direct to DVD animated feature coming out of the deal to. Orson Randall animated stuff too as extras if he were to play a role. Heck, I'd like them to just start with Danny in NYC being pursued by Hydra just like "The Last Iron Fist Story" and give us the origin as flashbacks and all that.
Seeing as they are developing Luke Cage too, somehow they'll meet and end up in a team up movie... hopefully with the rest of the Heroes For Hire.
Iron Fist/Luke Cage could prove to be a pretty lucrative franchise and NOT do some of the more typical superhero things. Iron Fist and Luke Cage don't really have the kinds of villians that other superheroes do. What they've got is Hydra and stuff like that.
The whole Immortal Cities thing would play out kind of like Mortal Kombat, but without being hindered by a video game franchise.
...along with a few others. Interesting play for Marvel.
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Marvel Bringing Daredevil, Jessica Jones, Luke Cage, And Iron Fist To Netflix
Disney-Marvel and Netflix NFLX +2.16% today announced a joint venture to develop four new superhero series for Netflix’s streaming and DVD service. The characters included in the deal are Daredevil, Jessica Jones, Luke Cage, and Iron Fist. The Marvel-Netflix deal guarantees 13 episodes of each series, and a final team-up miniseries The Defenders featuring all four of the characters together. Daredevil will kick things off as the first series to release.
Will these shows tie into Marvel’s current television series Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. and the cinematic Marvel universe? No word on that yet, but I’d be surprised if it didn’t tie into the movies — tying together series on different networks/distributors is a bit trickier, so they might just remain mum on that front.
The deal is part of a broader arrangement between Disney-Marvel and Netflix, granting Netflix exclusive first-run subscription rights to Disney and Marvel live-action and animation from Disney and Marvel. With the global popularity of the Marvel films, and with Netflix expanding into more countries while likewise expanding its library of content — including with exclusivity deals like the one it signed with Disney and Marvel — as well as a growing lineup of original programming, the financial implications of the deal are eye-popping.
Why Marvel Is Defining The Modern Superhero Film Genre Mark Hughes Mark Hughes Contributor
Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. has enjoyed strong overall viewership, hitting a five-week high this Tuesday and ranking #1 for the evening among males 18-49 years of age, and ranking second-most-watched scripted show overall Tuesday. Data for streaming and recorded viewership shows the program’s total audience is even higher than pure TV ratings demonstrate.
We could see budgeting for these Marvel superhero series in the $5-10 million or more range per episode, depending on the level of effects involved in each show. Netflix has been willing to spend money to make money, simply put, including investing in top talents and high production values for their original programming. Of course, Netflix won’t be financing the shows alone, so how much could Disney-Marvel kick in? Disney and Marvel have tried hard — and succeeded — to tamp down on budgeting and keep costs a little lower whenever possible, and this project no doubt will see the same sort of frugality from the studios.
The new shows will begin airing in 2015, and the deal will spread the release of all four series over several years, similar to the approach with the Marvel films leading into the big team-up movie The Avengers in 2012.
What do you think of this deal, dear readers? Are you happy to see Marvel jumping into streaming programming with their characters? And would you like to see these shows eventually lead into some big-screen Defenders productions?
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“a bloody, revenge-fueled martial arts epic” is how writer/artist Kaare Andrews describes MARVEL COMICS' Iron Fist: The Living Weapon
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Sweet, must get this !
So does this ignore the entire Immortal Iron Fist series, as well as the Defenders where the current Iron Fist
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Get's engaged, has his girl preggers, and finds out the Prince of Orphans has been offing Immortal Weapons from the Heavenly Cities for a dog's age?
There was an Immortal Weapons series which followed the events you mentioned. There where also some re-cons regarding the baby and the now ex-girl-friend, in a handful of marvel series, most notably New Avengers and Heroes for Hire. That Defenders series crashed and burned (no book with that title lasts long) but if you liked IMMORTAL IRON FIST might want to check out HAWKEYE.
who do you guys see playing him? im up for scott adkins in the lead.
Scott Adkins could be good.
After Immortal Iron Fist though, I would tend to see a more wiry guy in the role. Adkins is built, and I don't know if I see Danny Rand quite like that.
I'd like for them to go with an unknown, preferably with acting chops close to their martial skills.
Scott Adkins would be awesome as the opiumed-out predecessor though.
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Marvel's Netflix Series to Film in New York City
New York City to serve as principal filming location for four series epic and one mini-series!
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Governor Andrew M. Cuomo, The Walt Disney Company, Marvel and Netflix Inc. today announced that Marvel's landmark live-action television series, which will bring Marvel's "flawed heroes of Hell's Kitchen" characters to Netflix, the world's leading Internet TV network, will principally film in New York State. Produced by Marvel Television in association with ABC Television Studios, this groundbreaking series is Marvel's most ambitious foray yet into live-action television storytelling and represents the largest film or television production project commitment in New York State history.
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Daredevil will be the first series from Marvel and Netflix to film in New York City
Filming is set to begin in the Summer 2014 and will create at least three thousand jobs in New York State including up to 400 full time jobs. The project will include nearly 60 one-hour episodes focused on the 4 Defenders characters: Daredevil, Jessica Jones, Luke Cage and Iron Fist.
"New York is where the entertainment industry started, and this unprecedented commitment from Disney and Marvel is further evidence that we're bringing it back bigger and better than ever before," said Governor Cuomo. "And when the entertainment industry thrives, it fuels dozens of other industries and businesses. The competition for these projects is fierce and Disney could have chosen to film these shows anywhere, but they knew that shooting in New York means getting to work with the best in world. These shows bring New York's super heroes home where they belong--along with hundreds of jobs and millions of dollars in new business."
"Since 2008 Disney has directly contributed almost half a billion dollars to New York's economy through television and film production, along with approximately 9,000 jobs for New Yorkers," said Robert A. Iger, Chairman and CEO, The Walt Disney Company. "The Governor's policies make this great state a more affordable and attractive location, opening the door for even greater economic investment and job creation for New Yorkers. Our Marvel series for Netflix will inject millions directly into the local economy and create hundreds of new jobs."
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"We thank the Governor and the great state of New York for helping us create the ultimate backdrop to this epic series. Setting our production in New York City truly underscores the authenticity and excitement we plan to bring to The Defenders and their 'flawed heroes of Hell's Kitchen' stories," said Alan Fine, President, Marvel Entertainment.
Last November, Disney and Netflix announced an unprecedented deal for Marvel TV to bring multiple original series of live-action adventures of four of Marvel's most popular characters exclusively to the world's leading Internet TV Network beginning in 2015. This pioneering agreement calls for Marvel to develop four serialized programs totaling 52 one-hour episodes culminating in a four to eight episode mini-series programming event. Led by a series focused on "Daredevil," followed by "Jessica Jones," "Iron Fist" and "Luke Cage," the epic will unfold over multiple years of original programming, taking viewers deep into the gritty world of heroes and villains of Hell's Kitchen, New York. Netflix has committed to a minimum of four, thirteen episodes series and a mini-series event in which the Marvel characters from the first four series team up as "The Defenders," much like "The Avengers."
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This new original TV deal follows last year's landmark movie distribution deal through which, beginning with 2016 theatrically released feature films, Netflix will be the exclusive U.S. subscription television service for first-run, live-action and animated movies from the Walt Disney Studios, including titles from Disney, Walt Disney Animation Studios, Pixar Animation Studios, Marvel Studios, Disneynature and Lucasfilm.
"The Defenders are classic New York characters; smart, resourceful and tough enough to always stand up for what's right," said Ted Sarandos, Netflix Chief Content Officer. "We're delighted they're coming to life on their home turf thanks to Governor Cuomo and his team."
When Governor Cuomo took office in 2011, he made the attraction of the film and television production and post production industries, and jobs and the economic impact they bring with them, a key part of his overall strategy to grow New York State's economy. Since that time, he has signed into law several important changes to both programs to make New York more competitive in this global marketplace, and the results have been significant. Both programs enjoyed record-breaking years in 2013, bringing billions of dollars in new spending and thousands of jobs into the Empire State. The stability provided by multiyear funding has particularly encouraged the development of television series production work, like the new Marvel series, as well as long term investments in infrastructure, all of which creates thousands of jobs directly and indirectly related to the actual productions themselves.
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During calendar year 2013, applications for 183 film productions were submitted that included 124 films, 33 television programs and 26 pilots. These projects will:
-Generate a direct spend of $2.11 billion in NYS;
-Collect a projected $477 million in credits; and
-Hire an estimated 128,165 actors and crew for the 183 projects submitted.
John Ford, President, International Alliance of Theatrical and Stage Employees (IATSE) Local 52 said, "The men and women of the IATSE look forward to participating in this groundbreaking endeavor. Thanks to the vision of Governor Cuomo and the Legislature, the long term funding of the production incentives gives employers the comfort they need to invest in these new avenues of entertainment, which will provide thousands of new jobs with good wages and benefits."
Thomas J. O'Donnell, President Teamsters Local 817 said, "Theatrical Teamsters Local 817 is thrilled that Marvel's newest television series will be filmed in New York. This long-term commitment is an incredible accomplishment that will bring not just jobs, but also stability to our members work and family lives."
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issue #1 had ninjas on helicopters, this issue heads back to the mystical city.
I had to re-read the first issue three times to fully appreciate it. The series is now on my pull list.
Scott Glenn, who you might remember from SUCKER PUNCH) has been cast as Stick, Matt Murdock's mentor in the martial arts, in the upcoming "Daredevil" television collaboration between Marvel and Netflix.
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[UPDATED] Is Alain Moussi Joining Marvel/Netflix As IRON FIST?
UPDATE (1/28/15): It seems Moussi removed his Facebook post within the last several hours since the original article was published, and reposted a few more times later stating he was not in the running to play the character. We'll keep you posted.
In the wake of the current production of Kickboxer, you may have been wondering exactly what lies next for its debut lead actor, Alain Moussi. Well, we may already have an answer for that with the latest update now drawing some pretty tasty speculation relative to what is now happening for Marvel's currently brewing extension of their cinematic universe through Netflix, and if you're a kung fu fan, you definitely have reason to be excited.
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Iron Fist first appeared in the comics back in 1974 from creative duo Roy Thomas and Gil Kane with the story of Danny Rand, a young boy who acquires his extraordinary kung fu skills during his intensive training in the mystical city of K'un L'un and uses them to fight crime upon discovering his true destiny in a long-line of martial artists with his skills. The character was also once a contender for a potential feature film back in 2000 with Marvel and Artisan Entertainment courting Star Wars: Episode 1 - The Phantom Menace and Ballistic: Ecks VS Sever co-star Ray Park to lead with Kirk Wong directing. The project eventually withered away in the following decade before Marvel hired Rich Wilkes to provide a script for a feature film once more, which, of course, was long before Marvel hit the reset button with Netflix back in 2014.
While neither group have officially confirmed the plot for the new Iron Fist series, all roads currently point to a potential storyline involving the Heroes For Hire arc with actor Mike Colter currently tapped to portray superhero Luke Cage for Netflix with expected appearances in Netflix's A.K.A. Jessica Jones for a 2016 premiere date. In the meantime, if there is anything worth taking away from Moussi's post above, it's the promise of watching the career of a rising martial arts action star now in full-bloom for a new generation of kung fu and comic book fans. Alas, official news is pending beyond this write-up, so stay tuned for more Iron Fist news ahead of further developments on Kickboxer!
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Marvel and Netflix’s Defenders Series Release Dates and News: Daredevil Season 2, Jessica Jones, Luke Cage, Iron Fist
By Mark Rollins (news@gospelherald.com) Oct 20, 2015 02:19 PM EDT
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These Netflix/Marvel characters will all be getting together on "The Defenders", but what will they do?
It was no secret that Marvel wanted to put not one, but four separate series on Netflix based on its comic book characters. The first season of Daredevil turned out to be a huge hit, so now audiences have a lot to look forward to with the release dates of new series like Jessica Jones, Luke Cage, Iron Fist, not to mention Daredevil Season 2. This is what is known about the Defenders Series, but what will be the story that brings all these iconic characters together?
As far as the next page of the Defenders story, Jessica Jones is going to be the show that Netflix viewers get a chance to see. The entire Season 1 of Jessica Jones is just one month away from being released to subscribers as it will debut on November 20, 2015. That will be on a Friday, and you had better believe that it will be binge-watched by Marvel fans by the following Monday.
So far, what we know about Jessica Jones based on a plot synopsis post on The Metro: "Ever since her short-lived stint as a Super Hero ended in tragedy, Jessica Jones has been rebuilding her personal life and career as a hot-tempered, sardonic, badass private detective in Hell's Kitchen, New York City. Plagued by self-loathing, and a wicked case of PTSD, Jessica battles demons from within and without, using her extraordinary abilities as an unlikely champion for those in need... especially if they're willing to cut her a check."
The show looks to be even darker than Daredevil Season 1, and it looks like it will focus on a superhero who has ended their super-career rather than the usual origin story that starts at the beginning. Krysten Ritter will be playing the title character, and the pilot episode, which has already been previewed, will have David Tennant appear as the villain, The Purple Man.
The Inquisitr recently discussed the preview at New York Comic Con, and how the series is definitely not for kids. The Sexuality is very open and blunt, and it is possible that the character that Carrie-Anne Moss plays, Jeryn Hogarth, could be Marvel's first foray into ****sexual themes.
Considering that Jessica Jones is working within Hell's Kitchen, is there any possibility of her crossing over into the Daredevil's Season 2, coming around April 2016? Right now, we know that Matt Murdock (Daredevil's real name, played by Charlie Cox) is going to have his hands full dealing with the Punisher (Jon Bernthal) and Elektra (Elodie Yung), two fan-favorite characters plucked from the comic book source material. It's pretty clear that there would have to be some tie-in to Jessica Jones, as Marvel just can't seem to resist that crossover storytelling with its Avengers films.
Jessica Jones will have one character that will link to the Luke Cage as Mike Colter, the actor that plays the character on Jessica Jones, will have his own planned spinoff show, sometime in 2016. This character could get a lot of development on Jessica Jones, and then face his own foes. Very little is known other than the imdb description of "Given superstrength and durability by a sabotaged experiment, a wrongly accused man escapes prison to become a superhero for hire". It does have a cast that includes Misty Knight and other characters pulled from the comic book source material.
As for Iron Fist, the last of the Defenders shows (assuming Marvel doesn't spinoff other characters), the imdb description is just "a martial artist with chi based super powers fights crime", and there is no cast as yet for the show expected in 2016.
So perhaps the biggest question is how this team will become the Defenders, and what foe or foes will they face? If they are following the Avengers money-making movie formula, then different aspects of the story will be revealed in the individual series, and then will culminate into one big battle when the Defenders series finally happens.
Yeah, I have to admit that I kind of saw that coming.
Iron Fist CAN be a very good character IF you take into account what he CAN do ( super speed, super strength, super healing and even project his chi almost like lightning or use it as a projectile in a gun or a bow instead of bullets/arrows) - Think Jedi almost.
His torment is what makes him unique BUT it gets lost as a "supporting role".
It would be a more mystical type of thing.