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The Man with the Iron Fists
Theatrical release poster
Directed by	RZA
Written by	The RZA Eli Roth
Story by	RZA
Produced by	Eli Roth Marc Abraham Eric Newman
Starring	Russell Crowe Cung Le Lucy Liu Byron Mann RZA Rick Yune David Bautista Jamie Chung
Cinematography	Chi Ying Chan
Edited by	Joe D'Augustine
Music by	RZA Howard Drossin
Production companies	Strike Entertainment Arcade Pictures
Distributed by	Universal Pictures
Release date	November 2, 2012 (2012-11-02) (North America)
Running time	96 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$20 million
Box office	$9.2 million

The Man with the Iron Fists is a 2012 martial arts film directed by RZA and written by RZA and Eli Roth. The film stars Russell Crowe, Cung Le, Lucy Liu, Byron Mann, RZA, Rick Yune, David Bautista, and Jamie Chung. Set in 19th century China, the story follows a series of lone warriors who are forced to unite to defeat a common foe and save their home of Jungle Village. The film was released in North America on November 2, 2012.

Development began as early as 2005 when RZA shared his idea for the film with Roth. After nearly two years of development by the pair, they were able to secure financial backing in May 2010. Filming began in December 2010 on a $20 million budget and concluded by March 2011. The film was shot entirely in China, including the city of Shanghai. The film's score is composed by RZA and Howard Drossin, and its soundtrack is developed by RZA, featuring several new songs by various artists. A series of concerts were held to promote the film, featuring music from the soundtrack.

Premise

In nineteenth century China, The Blacksmith (RZA) is forced to create elaborate weapons of death for a small village. When a traitor threatens to destroy the village, he joins both warriors and assassins to protect their community.

Cast

• Russell Crowe as Jack Knife:

An opium addicted British soldier named after his signature weapon. The character was partly inspired by RZA's late-cousin Ol' Dirty Bastard. Crowe also took inspiration from Clint Eastwood in Dirty Harry (1971) and The Outlaw Josey Wales (1976). Crowe agreed to join the cast based on his previous working relationship with RZA. Crowe was only able to spend 10 days filming his scenes.

• Cung Le as Bronze Lion.

A member of the Lion Clan. Le came to RZA's attention following his 2008 mixed martial arts fight against Frank Shamrock.

• Lucy Liu as Madam Blossom:

The owner of the Pink Blossom brothel. Liu described the character as the Queen of the village. Liu wanted to emphasize the characters strength against all the male fighters and convinced RZA to give the character a fight sequence with Cung Le's Bronze Lion.

• Byron Mann as Silver Lion:

The leader of the Lion Clan after he kills the previous leader. Mann was initially cast for a smaller role, but his successful audition resulted in him being given the bigger role of Silver Lion.

• RZA as the Blacksmith:

A freed slave who becomes the blacksmith for Jungle Village. He channels an ancient energy to turn himself into a living weapon. His real name is Thaddeus. RZA trained in Hung Ga for 1-2 hours a day over 2 months in preparation for his role. He is the titular character, "the Man with the Iron Fists".

• Rick Yune as Zen-Yi, The X-Blade:

The son of the murdered Lion Clan leader. He goes to Jungle Village to avenge his father's death. RZA said that he had Yune in mind for the role before the script had even been completed.

• David Bautista as Brass Body:

A mercenary capable of turning his body to metal, making him invulnerable. Bautista described the character as a "good guy" who "made a lot of bad choices in his life. he doesn’t really understand the difference between right and wrong." RZA auditioned him for the role after seeing him "moving as fast as lightning" during a stick-fighting training video.

• Jamie Chung as Lady Silk:

A prostitute in the Pink Blossom, and the Blacksmith's girlfriend.

The cast also includes: Pam Grier as the Blacksmith's mother, Jane, a slave who sacrifices her freedom for her son's; Jin Au-Yeung as Chan; Daniel Wu as Poison Dagger; Chen Kuan-tai as Golden Lion, the murdered leader of the Lion Clan; and Bryan Leung as Hyena Chief, leader of the Hyena clan. Gordon Liu plays The Abbott, a stoic monk. The role was written for RZA's Shaolin teacher Shi Yan Ming, but Ming could not obtain permission to return to China for filming. Andrew Lin and Grace Huang appear as The Geminis, warriors tasked with protecting the Emperor's gold. Huang undertook two months of martial arts training in preparation for filming. Co-writer Eli Roth appears in a cameo.

Production

Development

Development of the film that would become The Man with the Iron Fists began as early as 2003 when RZA produced the soundtrack for Quentin Tarantino's film Kill Bill. RZA set himself a $50,000 budget and flew to the Kill Bill set in Beijing, China, where he spent approximately thirty days taking notes on how Tarantino directed the film. In 2005, RZA first met Eli Roth in Iceland, and the pair traveled with each other to LA. During the journey, RZA told Roth of his idea for a Kung Fu genre film which attracted Roth's interest, but no further progress was made. RZA completed the story for the film, but Roth convinced him that a completed screenplay would be necessary for the project to gain any support. Then in 2007, following the release of Roth's Hostel: Part II, Roth and RZA agreed to seriously pursue the project and went on to spend between 18 months and 2 years discussing the project and developing a screenplay in between each working on personal endeavors. Citing the specificity of the fictional universe in the Star Wars series, Roth said that the pair attempted to fully define the various aspects of The Man with the Iron Fists to make it interesting even without fight scenes. Roth said that RZA had "imagined every tribe, every fighting style, every costume".

They approached fights in the script by attempting to introduce a new character, fighting style or weapon to keep them from being boring, and if a fight did not further the story it was removed. RZA then financed and directed a martial-arts short film called Wu-Tang vs. the Golden Phoenix featuring kung-fu trained actors flown in from Hong Kong. When he and Roth finally pitched The Man with the Iron Fists to producers, RZA used the short to prove that the musician could handle the martial arts action and be trusted to take on his first director role. On May 7, 2010, it was announced that Universal Pictures had agreed to finance and distribute the film with Roth and Strike Entertainment's Marc Abraham and Eric Newman producing. The producers gave RZA a $20 million budget.

During the development process, Tarantino agreed to lend his name to the film with a "presented by" credit. In October 2012, RZA said that he and Tarantino had intended to crossover The Man with the Iron Fists with Tarantino's 2012 Western Django Unchained. The crossover would have seen a younger version of RZA's blacksmith character appear as a slave in an auction. However, scheduling conflicts prevented RZA's participation. During filming, RZA and Roth discussed the potential for a sequel if the film is successful.

Filming

"So I said, ‘You know what, I don’t need that shot.’ I mean I achieved at least 85 percent of my vision. You’re not going to get everything. You understand, because some stuff is dangerous, some stuff is impractical, it’s better to go CGI"

Principal photography took place over approximately 10 weeks on a $20 million budget. Filming began in China in December 2010, and had wrapped by March 2011. Filming locations included the city of Shanghai and Hengdian World Studios. Corey Yuen acted as the film's action choreographer. Some scenes were done in one take to compensate for time lost to filming issues. Approximately 6 weeks into filming, RZA began pushing the crew to work faster to remain on schedule. His assistant director eventually informed RZA that the push was resulting in stunt workers receiving injuries and being sent to the hospital daily. After this, RZA abandoned some of his intended shots and replaced them with Computer Generated Images (CGI). Roth also directed some shots for RZA. Crowe and Le were originally scripted to fight each other, but Crowe's limited shooting schedule meant he would not have the time to rehearse the fight, and Le instead was scripted to fight Liu.

The first cut of the film was 4 hours long and RZA suggested splitting it into two films, but Roth disagreed and it was ultimately cut down to 96 minutes to meet the studios requirements and to excise gorier content that would gain the film a restrictive rating, limiting its audience. RZA admitted to walking away from the editing process for two weeks at one point out of disgust at having to cut the film. In October 2012, he said that he intended to release a "director's cut" of the film for home viewing, and would reinsert at least 13 minutes of the cut footage. RZA described the film as an homage to the martial art films of the Hong Kong based Shaw Brothers.

The film mostly employed practical special effects over CGI. One effect that was written specifically for computer effects saw Yune's character kill 6 opponents, and their resulting airborne blood spray spelling "revenge" in Chinese. RZA declined to subtitle the message for English audiences.

Marketing

RZA launched "The Iron Fists Tour", an 11-date music concert, to promote the film in association with Rock the Bells and Guerilla Union. Beginning on October 3, 2012, the tour appeared in various North American cities including New York City, Baltimore, Chicago, Los Angeles, and Las Vegas. An animated short narrated by RZA was released on October 20, 2012, serving as a prequel to the film and detailing The Blacksmith's journey to China and his first meeting with Brass Body. The marketing also involved the creation of 16 different heavily stylized posters by 16 different artists that were placed in external locations in several North American cities and designed to allow pedestrians to remove and keep them.

Music

The film features music from a variety of artists including The Black Keys, Kanye West, Wiz Khalifa, My Chemical Romance, John Frusciante and Chinese singer Sally Yeh. RZA also developed new tracks based on excerpts from Wu-Tang Clan master tracks provided by Sony Music, and songs from artists including William Bell, Isaac Hayes and Mable John provided by Stax Records. Composer Howard Drossin provides original musical cues for the film.

RZA had not initially set out to score the film. He inserted temporary tracks of songs he wanted to use. After watching the temporary-track cut of the film, it was decided that the music was not suitable, and it was instead suggested that RZA provide the music. RZA sought Tarantino's help with the score after having previously aided Tarantino in scoring Kill Bill, but Tarantino also suggested RZA entirely produce the score. RZA, aided by Drossin, then developed and finalized the score. They then moved on to developing the film soundtrack. The official soundtrack is scheduled for release on October 23, 2012 and will feature 15 songs from the film including several original songs by Kanye West, the Wu-Tang Clan, Talib Kweli, Ghostface Killah, Pusha T, Raekwon, and collaborations by RZA with The Black Keys and Flatbush Zombies. Continuing the character Jack Knife's influence by Ol' Dirty Bastard, his theme tune features a jaw harp cue reminiscent of the artist's song "Shimmy Shimmy Ya." The Blacksmith is represented by cues from Isaac Hayes' music.

Release

The Man with the Iron Fists premiered on October 25, 2012, at Mann's Chinese 6 theatre in Hollywood. David Bautista attended in a yellow spandex suit in tribute to Kung-Fu legend Bruce Lee who wore a similar outfit in Game of Death (1972). The film was released in North America on November 2, 2012.

Box office

Pre-release tracking in North America for the week prior to release estimated that the film would attract a primarily male audience and earn between $7-$10 million during its opening weekend. The Man with the Iron Fists earned $3 million during its opening day, and during its opening weekend the film increased its total gross to $7.9 million from 1,868 theaters – an average of $4,235 per theater – finishing fourth behind holdover Argo ($10.2 million), and fellow new releases Flight ($25 million) and Wreck-It Ralph ($49.1 million). The largest demographic of the opening weekend audience was under the age of 30 (53%) and male (64%).

Critical reception

The film received mixed reviews from critics. It has garnered a 55% approval rating from 40 critics—an average rating of 5.2 out of 10—on the review-aggregate website Rotten Tomatoes. Metacritic provides a score of 57 out of 100 from 13 critics, which indicates "mixed or average" reviews. CinemaScore polls reported that the average grade moviegoers gave the film was an "C+" on an A+ to F scale.

Variety's Andrew Barker called the film endearing and engagingly enthusiastic that is "more fun than it ought to be". Barker considered RZA's on-screen role to be too withdrawn to carry the central character role, but praised the supporting performances especially those of Le's crime lord, and Crowe who Barker said "smirkingly goes for broke to an extent that viewers haven't seen from him since, well ... ever." Barker also praised the film score, but was critical of the script's uneven tone. The New York Times's Manohla Dargis called it an erratically enjoyable product of a deep cinephile passion for the martial arts genre. Dargis praised Crowe's performance and Byron Mann's "gaudy baddie with heavy-metal hair and a psycho grin", but considered RZA's central role a mistake, saying "with his sleepy eyes and an affect so laid-back... is too recessive a screen presence to make the character pop, much less hold your interest. The A.V. Club's Nathan Rabin credited RZA's conception of the "rich, bloody, dense universe he created down to the most insignificant details", and praised RZA's "powerful inner calm" performance, and Crowe's "defiantly theatrical turn".

The Los Angeles Times' Betsy Sharkey called it a martial-arts spectacle that "may just be one of the best bad movies ever." Sharkey noted that some uneven performances and lack of refinement were the result of RZA's lack of directing experience, but appreciated the choreography of the "extreme action" and the film's visual aesthetic, described as "a blend of French Baroque and ancient China". Sharkey said that the plot "goes seriously off-course" when expanding on the Blacksmith's history. The Hollywood Reporter's Todd McCarthy said that the film was "sufficiently well done and amusing enough to satisfy the appetites of fans who mainline this sort of thing," but considered that in directly acting as an homage to the genre, it lacked any stylistic inspiration or imaginative flair to reinvent it. McCarthy however praised the imaginative weapon designs, and the performances of Lucy Liu and Crowe. The Village Voice's Nick Pinkerton said "the action scenes are often too cluttered for legibility, and, curious to say of a movie made by a musician, the film has broad swaths without tempo", but conceded that it was charming and "curiously touching".

USA Today's Scott Bowles was conversely critical of the overall film, awarding it 1.5 stars out of 4. While calling it slick and hip, Bowles labeled the film "heavy on bloody kung fu action...and light on just about everything else", commenting that the film lacked enough tension to be taken seriously and enough laughs to be taken lightly. However, Bowles praised some "beautifully choreographed moments" and the action sequences. Emanuel Levy considered that Crowe's "commanding performance" and his chemistry with Liu were the film's highlights. Levy said that the film was an "ultra-violent movie that blends thrilling martial arts sequences, orchestrated and executed by some of the masters of this specific milieu, with a semi-involving tale" that would be appreciated by a young audience. Leonard Maltin said that RZA's understated performance was "not bad", but said that his directing of action scenes made on-screen events unclear, and concluded that the film imitated earlier kung-fu films and failed to improve upon them.

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External links

• Official website
• The Man with the Iron Fists at IMDb
• The Man with the Iron Fists at Metacritic
• The Man with the Iron Fists at Rotten Tomatoes

• 2012 films
• American action films
• 2010s action films
• Martial arts films
• Universal Pictures films
• Films shot in China
• Films shot in Shanghai
• Films set in the 19th century
• Films set in China
• Directorial debut films
• Films directed by RZA