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RZA Talks 'The Last Dragon' Remake and Rihanna
Filed under: Action », Casting », Fandom », Remakes and Sequels »
The only thing, and I mean the only thing that is keeping me from completely disowning the remake of The Last Dragon is that RZA (the driving force behind the flick) seems to have a real love for the project. MTV recently spoke with the rapper and he told them that he's currently trying to get pop star Rihanna to star in the role originally made famous by Prince protege, Vanity. RZA tells MTV, "That's the one I'm rooting for, we're keeping that same concept of the girl being in the music business."The original film centered on a young martial arts lover by the name of Leroy who falls in love with a music TV host (played by Vanity), while battling a local bad-ass by the name of Sho'nuff, and searching for the mystical 'Glow' (a mystical energy that can make you the greatest fighter alive.) But just because RZA has a soft spot for the original flick doesn't mean that he doesn't have some changes in mind. The actor/rapper told MTV, "One thing I don't think the old movie captured - because they couldn't capture it, [there] wasn't a lot of CGI - was I think some of the action sequences could've been cooler. But this one, we're not lacking that. You will definitely have some crazy action sequences."
Tribeca Review: Rock the Bells
Filed under: Documentary », Independent », Music & Musicals », Tribeca », Cinematical Indie »
Rock the Bells, a cinema verite-style ride through the production, promotion, and potential implosion of the 2004 hip hop concert of the same name, is starting to gather buzz at Tribeca as "the doc that spends 40 minutes trying to get a cracked-out Ol' Dirty Bastard out of his hotel." It is that film, for sure, but it's also at least three other things. It's a crash course in the dirty business of concert promotion; it's a primer on the storied history of Wu Tang Clan, who are not only one of the most significant hip hop acts, in creative terms, of all time, but are also responsible for taking the art of branding to a whole new level; and it's a love letter to fans and fandom that is so heartfelt, it bleeds through the boundaries of musical taste. Still, it would be hard to overstate the suspense that the Dirty situation lends to the film (which, at two hours, is slightly overlong but not fatally so). Directors Denis Henry Hennelly and Casey Suchan have themselves a poster-ready tagline in the film's first 15 minutes, when Chang, the concert promoter at the film's center, tells his assistant, "Anything with Dirty makes me nervous."
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