5 Reasons To Get Excited About The Man With The Iron Fists
3. Corey Yuen Just like musicals need their elaborate yet intricately crafted song and dance numbers, martial arts movies need their elaborate yet intricately crafted fight sequences, they need a choreographer or an action coordinator and in a rare move of not doing it himself, RZA has hired martial arts movie veteran, Corey Yuen. An old friend of Jackie Chan, Yuen has been involved with martial arts films initially as an actor, since the early 70s and then as a director since the early 80s, when hes not making his own films, Yuen is choreographing the action in other peoples. Yuen gave Michelle Yeoh here acting debut in 1985s Yes, Madam and Jean Claude Van Damme his, in 1986s No Retreat, No Surrender, he then went on to form an alliance with Jet Li, serving as Lis action coordinator for most of his films throughout the 90s. More recently he provided his action direction skills to X-Men and John Woos action epic Red Cliff as well as co-directing the all action Jason Statham moives, The Transporter and The Transporter 3. In short, hes more than qualified. The 2 minute or so trailer for The Man with the Iron Fists has a bit of a weapons fetish, pretty unique weapons at that. Noted in particular for his creativity with an assortment of weapons, Yuen seems like the perfect choice to show the RZAs Iron Fisted blacksmith and co. how to cinematically yet expertly, fling them at each other.