RZA’s New Movie Is A Perfect Storm Of Hip-Hop Film Stars & OG Actors (Video)

Wu-Tang Clan’s Abbott has been a longtime film director. The RZA’s past credits include 2012’s The Man With The Iron Fists, and last year’s Love Beats Rhymes. This past weekend, the accomplished producer, MC, and entertainment mogul premiered the trailer to his third film, Cut Throat City. RZA screened the work at San Diego, California’s Comic-Con. Now that trailer is released to the public.

Cut Throat City, written by P.G. Cuscheri, follows four friends returning to New Orleans, Louisiana’s Lower 9th Ward, following 2005’s Hurricane Katrina. With few ways to earn a living, the friends team up to plot a casino heist.

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RZA Says the Martin Shkreli Wu-Tang Fiasco Is Worthy of Being Turned Into a Movie

The Wu-Tang Clan's decision to only sell one copy of their ultra-rare album, Once Upon a Time in Shaolin, took a bizarre turn when Martin Shkreli bought it for $2 million. Now that Shkreli is in jail, the album is in the hands of the U.S. government, and RZA recently revealed that at one point he tried to buy the album back himself. He wasn't always happy with the outcome of the experiment, but he does say he thinks the whole thing could be turned into a movie.

"He had a pretty wild life, totally Lex Luthor—a bad superhero life," RZA told a camera man for the New York Daily News this week. "I think the whole incident and the whole saga around that is a story. There's a book out about it right now, and that book actually seems worthy of a film." The book he's referring to is Cyrus Bozorgmehr's Once Upon a Time in Shaolin: The Untold Story of the Wu-Tang Clan's Million-Dollar Secret Album, the Devaluation of Music, and America's New Public Enemy No. 1.

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Method Man Joins Jennifer Garner In "Peppermint"

(AllHipHop News) Rapper Method Man has been cast to star alongside Jennifer Garner in action film "Peppermint."

The Wu-Tang Clan member will play a detective in the film, about a woman out to seek revenge for the drive-by shooting deaths of her husband and daughter after waking from a coma.

Pierre Morel will direct the movie, which is currently in production. It is slated to hit theaters later this year.

In addition to "Peppermint," Method Man, real name Clifford Smith, will also appear in the Shaft reboot and his bandmate RZA's Hurricane Katrina crime drama "Cut Throat City."

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RZA Directing Hurricane Katrina Crime Drama

Rapper RZA has enlisted a star-studded cast for his next film "Cut Throat City."

"Empire" star Terrence Howard, Wesley Snipes, Eiza Gonzalez, and rapper T.I. have signed on for the film, which takes place in New Orleans, Louisiana following 2005's devastating Hurricane Katrina.

The film is currently shooting in the city and centers on four friends, who turn to a local criminal to pull off a casino heist after they return to the storm-damaged city and cannot find work.

The Wu-Tang Clan star will direct the movie and score it. He will also produce the project.

Joel David Moore, Kat Graham, Rob Morgan, Denzel Whitaker, Demetrius Shipp Jr., Shameik Moore, and Isaiah Washington will also appear in the film, according to Deadline.

RZA made his directorial debut in 2012 with "The Man with the Iron Fists" and went on to helm an episode of "Iron Fist" and 2017's "Love Beats Rhymes."

[via AllHipHop News]