SMH this would've been better than that series.
Raekwon Got Leonardo DiCaprio to Back a Wu-Tang Biopic, But Says RZA Shot It Down
Raekwon writes about how RZA was spearheading efforts to get a scripted Wu-Tang project off the ground and was particularly taken by the idea of doing a multi-season TV series. But Raekwon had been awed by the success of the N.W.A. biopic Straight Outta Compton, and not only believed a Hollywood blockbuster was the way to go, for both financial and artistic reasons, but that he could make it happen.
With an assist from A Tribe Called Quest’s Q-Tip, Raekwon says he scored a meeting with DiCaprio (a friend of Q-Tip’s and a big Wu-Tang fan), and that DiCaprio’s production company was soon on board to back the project. But the Wu-Tang biopic never materialized, and in its place came the scripted Hulu series, Wu-Tang: An American Saga
It seemed like he was cool with it, so I set up another meeting with the same players. It would be the most important one — the third meeting is when you close the deal. We met somewhere in the Valley, and the minute he got there, RZA’s energy was entirely different. He barely said anything and seemed to be going through the motions, nothing more. I could tell he wasn’t going to agree to do it, and my instincts told me why: my guess is that he was already in bed with a production company, deep into developing the scripted series for TV, even though none of us had signed off on it.
It was clear that something was very different, so after a respectable amount of time, Leo’s people ended the meeting and got up to leave.
“Thanks,” RZA said. “We’ll call you.”
“You son of a bytch,” I thought to myself. “You had something in your pocket the whole time and knew you’d never close this fukking deal. You didn’t think I could put something together that was better than what you got. You ain’t about us. You about you, motherfukker.”
Raekwon Got Leonardo DiCaprio to Back a Wu-Tang Biopic, But Says RZA Shot It Down
Raekwon writes about how RZA was spearheading efforts to get a scripted Wu-Tang project off the ground and was particularly taken by the idea of doing a multi-season TV series. But Raekwon had been awed by the success of the N.W.A. biopic Straight Outta Compton, and not only believed a Hollywood blockbuster was the way to go, for both financial and artistic reasons, but that he could make it happen.
With an assist from A Tribe Called Quest’s Q-Tip, Raekwon says he scored a meeting with DiCaprio (a friend of Q-Tip’s and a big Wu-Tang fan), and that DiCaprio’s production company was soon on board to back the project. But the Wu-Tang biopic never materialized, and in its place came the scripted Hulu series, Wu-Tang: An American Saga
It seemed like he was cool with it, so I set up another meeting with the same players. It would be the most important one — the third meeting is when you close the deal. We met somewhere in the Valley, and the minute he got there, RZA’s energy was entirely different. He barely said anything and seemed to be going through the motions, nothing more. I could tell he wasn’t going to agree to do it, and my instincts told me why: my guess is that he was already in bed with a production company, deep into developing the scripted series for TV, even though none of us had signed off on it.
It was clear that something was very different, so after a respectable amount of time, Leo’s people ended the meeting and got up to leave.
“Thanks,” RZA said. “We’ll call you.”
“You son of a bytch,” I thought to myself. “You had something in your pocket the whole time and knew you’d never close this fukking deal. You didn’t think I could put something together that was better than what you got. You ain’t about us. You about you, motherfukker.”
Wu heads from all over the globe to see such a flick being backed with full pockets...while RZA goes "nah....badodoodoodo"