Finn Jones Reveals That Wu-Tang Clan's RZA Helmed An Episode Of Marvel's IRON FIST
We learned about 9 of the 13 Iron Fist directors last week, and now, we've just gotten wind of another. It's hip-hop icon RZA, who according to Finn Jones, played an integral role in shaping Danny Rand.
Music, despite not playing a major role in Daredevil & Jessica Jones, played a fairly significant part throughout the course of Luke Cage season one and it sure sounds like Marvel/Netflix's next joint-collaboration Iron Fist is planning on following the same route.
Last Friday, during a Facebook Q&A session with Extra, star Finn Jones explained his highly intricate process of getting into character as Danny Rand for the very first time: "So before I started the role, I actually made a playlist on my iPod of songs that Danny Rand would listen to" He then went on to list off a few of the artists we may or may not hear over the course of thirteen episodes: "It’s a lot of kind of '90s hip-hop like De La Soul, Jurassic 5, A Tribe Called Quest, Wu Tang Clan. Like that kind of music is really what Danny’s jamming to. And we actually feature that in the series."
The conversation got even more interesting near the end when Jones let slip the identity of one of his directors: "And actually, one of our episodes was directed by the RZA himself. Episode 6. So, yeah, there’s very close ties to hip-hop music and the Iron Fist series." Episode six is titled "Immortal Emerges From Cave" and was one of the four episodes a recent report curiously failed to provide a director for and it now looks like we know why.
RZA is of course best known as the leader of the legendary hip hop group, Wu-Tang Clan, and previously helmed The Man with the Iron Fists, which was his homage to classic martial arts films. Jones wisely opted to avoid accidentally divulging anything else about the series, but did speak highly of his experience working with RZA: "Oh he’s a dude. Really super chill. Has a really good vision of what he wants. And he really understands that genre, the martial arts genre."
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"Marvel's Iron Fist" follows Super Hero and martial arts master Danny Rand in the upcoming live-action series
Iron Fist features:
Finn Jones as Danny Rand/Iron Fist
Jessica Henwick as Colleen Wing
Carrie-Anne Moss as Jeri Hogarth
Jessica Stroup as Joy Meachum
Tom Pelphrey as Ward Meachum
David Wenham as Harold Meachum
Rosario Dawson as Claire Temple
Lewis Tan as Zhou Cheng
Wai Ching Ho as Madame Gao
Arleo Dordar in an undisclosed role
Michael Maize in an undisclosed role
Iron Fist goes live on Netflix March 17
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