According to Deadline, Marvel has brought a screenwriter on board for their new movie project: ‘Iron Fist’. Nothing against the character but should a fairly unknown (to the general public anyway) character like Iron Fist be tossed into the movie making queue? That being said, this certainly makes sense what with Disney & Marvel’s plan to start making movies based on lesser known characters but I can’t help but think that there are some better known characters that would benefit more from the silver screen treatment and potentially earn the company a larger paycheck.

Some time ago, Ray Park (Snake Eyes from the recently released GI Joe movie) had expressed interest in playing the character but with nothing confirmed other than xXx screenwriter Ray Wilkes being brought on to get the ball rolling, nothing is known about which direction the company will take with casting or story.

For more info on this announcement, check out Deadline.com.

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Mike is the creator and Comics Editor for Panels of Awesome. He gets far too excited when people start talking about books or games and owns more action figures than a person of his age probably should. He is currently the co-host of the comic book podcast Longbox Radio and video game review show Video Game Pipe Dream.

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