RISE OF THE LAST DRAGON Reignites The Glow For Hopeful New ‘Fanimated’ Series
It was in 2008 when /Film’s Peter Sciretta followed up from a now-deleted THR post over plans from Columbia Pictures to remake The Last Dragon with Samuel L. Jackson carrying the torch from the late Julius Carry as notorious kung fu supervillain, Sho’Nuff. That report stood as one among any number of rumors since then and I can assure you this: bring this subject up with any genre fan with a serious conversational approach and you’re more likely to get dunked on and told by your peers to kiss their sneakers before long. That’s the tone of the fandom these days. 34 years after the film’s release starring Taimak and also-late actress and singer Vanity, Michael Schultz’s low-budget cinematic labor, made and allocated at the lasting height of popularity in all of kung fu cinema, remains aged amply well and celebrated to this day. That’s not to say that the […]