ROBERT FITZGERALD DIGGS

Whatever film The Man with the Iron Fists turns out to be, the sheer wackiness of potentially seeing a Brooklyn drawling RZA thump his way through a series of kung fu archetypes is enough high-concept to get my bum on a seat. Word around the campfire is that the first assembly edit of this flick totalled over four hours. I wonder what a Heaven's Gate length fight flick directed by a hip-hop mogul would look like? Awesome, probably.

Propaganda Basterd

Eli Roth directed ad for Inglourious Basterds' in-universe propaganda piece Nation's Pride - presented like a modern Weinstein roll-out for a forgotten foreign language gem. Easy to imagine this pre-menu, burning up precious disc room on a Dragon Dynasty kung-fu flick. Nation's Pride spins the fictional tale of Fredrick Zoller, a Nazi sniper who, holed up in a resplendent bell tower, manages to off several hundred enemy troops over the course of a few days. Script placed the unfortunates as Soviet, while the film apparently skews American. Zoller plays himself in propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels' Fuhrer affirmed masterwork. Another layer to a work suffused with the love of the mechanics of cinema.

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