Marvel To Make Iron Fist An XXX Movie

Marvel’s martial artis t set to move to the big screen with a script from xXx creator Richard Wilkes

Has there ever been a truly successful superhero with a green and yellow costume? Banshee was hardly ever A-List, let’s be honest.

For those of you not immersed in the nitty gritty of the Marvel universe, Iron Fist may not be a familiar name. Along with Shang-Chi, Master of Kung Fu, he was Marvel’s attempt to cash in on the martial arts movie craze of the ’70s, first appearing in ’74. But whereas Shang-Chi was clearly Bruce Lee influenced and looked cool and hard, Iron Fist looked more like an escapee from a Chinese circus. For a while he even teamed up with Power Man, himself a by-product of ’70s blaxploitation pics, in a comic series that – when read today – seems almost like a Life On Mars -style post-modern pisstake (to be fair, it often had its tongue firmly in cheek). But even the mighty Frank Miller had problems making him look cool.

Dave is a TV and film journalist who specializes in the science fiction and fantasy genres. He's written books about film posters and post-apocalypses, alongside writing for SFX Magazine for many years.