Comments on: Movie news: THE HANDS OF SHANG-CHI

By: Matt Cardin

Matt Cardin — Fri, 11 Aug 2006 12:08:07 +0000

If only the Hollywood production system were democratic, bendk. . .

By: bendk

bendk — Tue, 01 Aug 2006 00:43:22 +0000

If I was writing the screenplay there are three thing I would find a way to include.
1. The robot assassin “Mr. Reston, I presume?”
2. The Demon Warrior, Shaka Kharn, and the sword fight over the pit of giant scorpions.
3. Razor-Fist

I would also go to great pains to cast the perfect Leiko Wu. Because I’ve had a thing for her for most of my life.

By: Matt Cardin

Matt Cardin — Fri, 28 Jul 2006 21:04:07 +0000

Thanks for commenting, Stu, especially since I know you’re somebody who knows a lot about this subject. I hadn’t heard of the planned Iron Fist movie, but if it was going to be a piece of crap, then I’m glad it’s probably dead. I loved Iron Fist. I had a complete run of the last five or six years of the Power Man and Iron Fist until, as I’ve mentioned here, my collection was stolen. I would hate to see a movie about my favorite martial artist with a dragon tattoo burned into his chest and a sizzling burst of chi energizing his fist — I say, I would hate to see such a movie botched.

By: Stu

Stu — Tue, 25 Jul 2006 08:51:20 +0000

Matt, I hadn’t heard about this but it sounds great! I think Shang-Chi has made a bit of a comeback in the comics recently with his most popular writer/artist team of Doug Monech and Paul Gulacy. I’d have to doublecheck that though, might be getting confused withe same team’s work on Batman.

Anyway, this project sounds a lot more promising than the attempt to bring Marvel’s other main martial arts hero, Iron Fist to the big screen. Ray ‘Darth Maul’ Park was slated to play the character but I haven’t heard anything about it for ages so I think the project’s kaput.