#M. Raven Metzner

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✨ Spellslinger is coming to the screen! ✨

John Wick director Chad Stahelski is bringing Sebastien de Castell’s fantasy world to life with all the action, magic, and adventure fans could want! 🎬 Join me as we dive into the details of this epic adaptation, featuring a sarcastic squirrel-cat, high-stakes magic, and a young hero who has to rely on his wits to survive! With M. Raven Metzner (Star Trek: Discovery) as showrunner, this is one fantasy series we won’t want to miss! 🌍⚔️

🔮 What are you most excited to see in Spellslinger? Comment below! 👇 https://youtu.be/1t_2rcYBIYE?si=dpWLkiRt1e-qX4P8 #Spellslinger #ChadStahelski #FantasyTV #SebastiendeCastell #MagicAndAdventure #YAAdaptations

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‘East/West’ Medical Drama From Yalun Tu, M. Raven Metzner & Jet Wilkinson In Works At CBS

‘East/West’ Medical Drama From Yalun Tu, M. Raven Metzner & Jet Wilkinson In Works At CBS

EXCLUSIVE: CBS is developing East/West, a medical drama from writer-producer Yalun Tu (NCIS: Hawai’i), M. Raven Metzner (Iron Fist) and CBS Studios. Jet Wilkinson (The Chi) is attached to direct the pilot and executive produce. Written by Tu and Metzner, East/West revolves around a pair of newly connected half-siblings – one an Asian- American medical doctor, the other a Taiwanese Traditional…

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Being His Own Iron Fist

Unlike many Marvel Netflix fans, I actually enjoyed “IRON FIST” very much.  Especially Season One.  I enjoyed the series up until the moment when Danny Rand decided that his girlfriend Colleen Wing should be the new Iron Fist.  After that . . . oh dear God.

Following the end of Season One, M. Raven Metzner replaced series creator Scott Buck as the series' new show runner. One of his decisions was to end the second season with Danny convincing Colleen to become the new Iron Fist once they are able to take away the abilities associated with the title from his former best friend-turned-nemesis, Davos. Personally, I found this decision rather mind boggling. I had wanted to see Danny finally embark upon a journey in which he would develop into being the Iron Fist . . . "HIS WAY". From what I had gathered from flashbacks during Season Two, members of the Order of the Crane Mother had never expected Danny to win the position of becoming the Iron Fist. He was "the outsider" and not a favored son like his friend Davos. Once Danny became the Iron Fist, his K'un-Lun masters gave him a list of rules on what he was supposed to do in his new role. That included remaining outside the walls of the K'un-Lun city to prevent leaders of the Hand (a ninja clan) from returning to the city. But his masters never taught Danny everything about the Iron Fist's powers. The Crane Mother Order masters had even failed to inform Danny that the Hand could use the Iron Fist to regain entry into K'un-Lun. Davos thought he should have been the Iron Fist, due to being the son of two K'un-Lun masters. When he failed to achieve this position, he followed Danny to New York City in order to convince the latter to return. Like the K'un-Lun inhabitants, Davos constantly lectured Danny about what the duties of the Iron Fist entailed. He also believed that Danny was never ruthless enough to use the Fist to eliminate criminals. Stick, leader of an offshoot organization of the Crane Mother Order called the Chaste (along with being Matt Murdock and Elektra Natchios' former mentor), merely repeated the Iron Fist's duties to Danny in "THE DEFENDERS". Even Matt aka Daredevil, wanted Danny to use the Iron Fist role to continue his activities as a vigilante. Danny spent all of Season One, all of "THE DEFENDERS" episodes and a good deal of Season Two parroting what he was taught about the Iron Fist to others. Despite all of this, he seemed hellbent upon being the Iron Fist his way . . . and that included leaving K'un-Lun. Danny seemed like a person who preached one thing, tried to practice what he had preached and ended up doing things his own way. He seemed to be in some kind of conundrum. The only person who had given him any good advice was Elektra Natchios in "THE DEFENDERS". She had more or less suggested that he toss aside the Crane Mother Order's mantra about how to be the Iron Fist and do it his way. Danny made the mistake of ignoring her suggestion, due to her role with the Hand and him being her prisoner at the time. Now, Metzner could have allowed Danny to come to this realization in Season Two. Being a vigilante like Daredevil did NOT give him any sense of satisfaction. But instead of allowing Danny to continue his development as the Iron Fist, Metzner thought it would be a great idea to allow Colleen, a former acolyte of the Hand (she had been unaware of its evil history), to become the new Iron Fist. He set this up by first allowing Davos to take the Iron Fist ability from Danny with the help of Joyce Meachum (who stupidly wanted revenge for what went down between him, her brother Ward Meachum and her father Harold Meachum in Season One) and a former special ops soldier with dissociative identity disorder named Mary Walker. While Danny, Colleen and New York Police detective Mercedes "Misty" Knight plotted to regain the powers of the Fist; Danny decided that he was unworthy of the role and that Colleen would be a better choice to wield the Fist. By having Danny ensure that Colleen would become "the Iron Fist", Metzner ruined the momentum for his further development. Why was it important that Colleen become the Iron Fist? Danny thought she would be a better vigilante than him. Okay . . . but this reason did not justify Metzner's decision to make her an Iron Fist. Colleen Wing had already been established by Marvel Comics as an iconic vigilante. Even "IRON FIST" had established her as a decent vigilante. There was no need for her to replace Danny as the Iron Fist. After becoming the Iron Fist, Colleen learned from Danny that one of her ancestors had been a previous Iron Fist. So this is Metzner's excuse? Privilege? Davos thought he should have been the Iron Fist, because of his privilege and his K'un-Lun ancestry. The Season Two narrative had proven him wrong. And now viewers were supposed to accept Colleen as the new Iron Fist because . . . wait for this . . . her ancestor had been a previous Iron Fist? I do not recall ancestry being the sole reason a certain candidate could be considered for the Iron Fist position. Otherwise, the Crane Mother Order would have never considered Danny Rand as a potential candidate in the first place. Metzner and his writers handed over the role of Iron Fist to Colleen in an act that I would describe as another form of privilege. In the end, the writers contradicted themselves in this stupid and unnecessary plot twist. Why did they do this? Because "IRON FIST" and the Danny Rand character was unpopular with viewers. And why? Because "IRON FIST" had the bad luck to premiere on Netflix four months after the controversial MCU movie, "DOCTOR STRANGE" and receive backlash from the whole casting controversy regarding "the Ancient One" role. In a racist move, the filmmakers for "DOCTOR STRANGE" had transformed an Asian man into a Celtic white woman and made vague excuses for this decision. I believe "IRON FIST" became a scapegoat for the MCU's stupidity, because the main character - a white man - had spent fifteen years in the Himalayas and learned martial arts. There was an outcry that the lead for "IRON FIST" should have been portrayed by a person of color. Mind you, no one had bothered to demand that a person of color portray either Matt Murdock, Jessica Jones or Frank Castle. And no one had bothered to demand or suggest that Luke Cage become a woman. Yet, because Danny had spent fifteen years in Asia and "IRON FIST" was released four months after the controversial "DOCTOR STRANGE", many had demanded his character should have been portrayed by a non-white actor, preferably Asian. And you know what? It got worse. The series' last episode, (2.10) "A Duel of Iron", ended with Colleen Wing patrolling the streets of Manhattan's Chinatown as the new Iron Fist. As for Danny, he and Ward Meachum traveled to Asia in order to search for one Orson Randall, the black market seller who had earlier provided Davos and Joyce with the corpse of a former Iron Fist. By the end of the episode's last reel, they were still searching for Randall. But Danny found his guns, which were infused with the chi of the Iron Fist. The episode's last scene featured Danny using them in a Japanese bar. Many have claimed that the guns had the Iron Fist chi, but Danny had remained powerless. This is impossible. Danny's hands would have incinerated if he had not already possessed the Iron Fist chi. Which means he was once again, the Immortal Iron Fist. In the end, M. Raven Metzner's decision to allow Colleen to become an Iron Fist contradicted the narrative's reason why Davos should not have taken the Iron Fist powers from Danny. Neither Davos or Colleen really had earned the role in the first place. What made Metzner's decision for Colleen to become an Iron Fist even more irrelevant is that Danny ended up regaining the power of the Iron Fist in the series' last scene. So . . . making Colleen Wing the new Iron Fist? Why in the hell did Metzner bothered? Why not simply allow Danny to develop as the Iron Fist in his own terms in the first place?

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Ward and Joy's Mother's death is a story I'd love to dig into more deeply. If we were to get a S3 we might learn more. I'd also very much like to see Ward's place. I don't imagine he has much furniture. But sure, a view is very Ward. I loved the character of Bethany and -- should we get a S3 --would love to explore the role Ward might play as a father. Especially because his own relationship with Harold was so messed up. If Ward wasn't working for Rand he'd be a day trader maybe.... or a Chef at a place with a Michelin Star. Somewhere where the constant pressure and challenge would allow him to continue to escape his own misery.

M. Raven Metzner AMA on Reddit -  I asked about Ward’s mother, what Ward’s house is like, if Ward is going to be involved in his child’s life and what he would do if he wasn’t CEO of Rand.

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Iron Fist

Season 2, “A Duel of Iron"

Director: Jonas Pate

DoP: Niels Alpert

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Hmm..so Ironjoy isn’t dead after all 😎

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🔴 TIGER & BUNNY: IN ARRIVO UNA SERIE LIVE ACTION OCCIDENTALE!

Bandai Namco Pictures e la compagnia statunitense SK Global stanno lavorando per portare in tv una versione con attori in carne ed ossa dell’action comedy supereroistica, attualmente distribuita in streaming su Netflix. 

Come produttore esecutivo, sceneggiatore e showrunner troviamo M. Raven Metzner (Iron Fist, Sleepy Hollow). Al progetto partecipano anche Masayuki Ozaki, produttore dell’anime originale e Tetsu Fujimura (live action di Ghost in the Shell e Cowboy Bebop).

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Yah I was hoping they'd get to the capital cities stuff in IF so that's good I guess. Still don't know how I feel about where they're going with Danny, Joy or the series but maybe it'll make sense later.

    Raven Metzner has been going around to various social media sites and answering fan questions. Here are a few comments that I found particularly enlightening/exciting: 

    I am clinging to hope that the K’un-Lun situation has remained vague for the sake of fostering mystery, and not just because of communication lapses between showrunners. At the end of Iron Fist Season 1 it had apparently vanished. In The Defenders Danny was convinced it had been destroyed, but the Hand leaders seemed to believe otherwise (since they were trying to get back there). In Luke Cage Season 2, Danny seemed to have decided it was not gone, because he joked about bringing Luke there. And then in Iron Fist Season 2, he and Davos were clearly convinced it had been destroyed. I need a definite answer, and I’m extremely relieved to know Raven feels the same way. And heck, “Lei Kung coming through the portal to get Danny for the tournament could be an amazing way to end S3″? How about an amazing way to start S3?!

(I’ll caption these Discord ones because they’re kind of hard to read.)

Q: “Are we ever going to see K’un-Lun for all its glory? Are there any other mythical creatures besides dragons that could be introduced in the future?”

A: “I thought EP201 was pretty glorious but it would be very cool to see more of the mystical city. There are lots of cool mythic creatures in the Iron Fist comics and in general. I’m very interested in building out some more of the mythology in the series for sure.”

*Bangs fists on table* H’ylthri! H’ylthri! H’ylthri! H’ylthri!…

    Raven has been asked a bunch of times about showing Shou-Lao, and I’m not including those here because his answer is as expected: the budget won’t allow it.

AAAAAH! DOOOO IIIIIIIIT!

    This is pretty close to Lei Kung’s mindset in the comics too, but nice to have it confirmed, since that moment was very subtle. 

    I too considered that final fight a huge cop-out, so this provides some context. Metzner is working with long-form storytelling here, and Danny and Davos’s story has not yet reached its epic conclusion– which is great news. 

Q: “Who in real life would be the most worthy of the Iron Fist?”

A: “Wow this is a great question. I feel very strongly that the person who has the Fist should be the person who would be least likely to use it.”

    This is significant insight to how Metzner views the Iron Fist. I partly agree, though not entirely, and it sheds light on his decisions regarding Danny this season.

    I’m really excited to see more of this version of Mary, and it seems safe to assume that these “amazing back story elements” will make their way into a potential Season 3. I can’t wait!

Q: “Could you talk a bit about your thought process behind Joy’s arc this season?”

A: “I adore Jessica Stroup. We couldn’t ignore that last scene with she and Davos at the end of S1 so we built on it. I also loved the idea that Joy’s plan was NOT at all Davos’ plan - I think it’s great when there is dissection [sic] among the antagonists. I also felt there was SO MUCH the character needed to say to Danny and Ward after the way she was treated in S1– so I made sure she had the chance to say them.”

    Some commentary on Joy’s arc! I thought it needed more development and time, particularly in regards to her dynamic with Danny, but I loved a lot of what was done with Joy this season.   

    We might actually get a superhero origin for Sam…

    For anyone unfamiliar, Sam Chung (Colleen’s co-worker at the clinic this season) is a Daredevil character from Charles Soule’s run. In the comics he is an undocumented immigrant from China who invents an invisibility suit, and trains alongside Matt using the codename Blindspot. Since he is such a new character, it was really exciting to have him even remotely referenced in the Netflix-verse. Obviously, he is not exactly the same character in the show, but seeing him actually become a superhero in that universe would be amazing. 

    This was his answer when asked about his favorite easter egg. I missed this one! Very cool. The image on the left is from the cover of Daughters of the Dragon (2006) #5. 

Q: “I know you can’t talk much about the future of Danny on Iron Fist, but what direction would you like to see for the character in the future?”

A: “I want to continue to evolve him. My goal is to get him to the place where he is in the comics– centered, powerful, confident– the best Martial Artist in the Marvel U.”

    As much as I may disagree with some of his methods, it is comforting to be reassured that he wants what we all want for Danny.

    Also be sure to check out this interview, conducted by Connor McKenna of the fantastic Immortal Iron Fist Podcast. It’s very insightful: 

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"...I do think there’s kind of a “Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid” vibe between the two of them that is fun to watch, but also fatalistic and sad, but a joy. I wrote the scenes for them all the way through the season, hoping that chemistry would happen, and it did. And we earned that moment where you buy that Ward and Danny are going to go on adventures together and those adventures would be fun to watch.”

Please give us the husband adventures, Metzner. I’m literally begging you.

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BREAKING NEWS - The previously announced Hollywood live action project for TIGER & BUNNY, will be restarting in the form of a TV series, being produced by both BANDAI NAMCO Pictures in partnership with SK Global.

The showrunner and screenplay will be written by M. Raven Metzner, who comments:

“As a huge fan of the TIGER & BUNNY animated series, I am thrilled to be a part of the team that is bringing this unique and vibrant story to life in a live action series. We envision a cool superhero story that audiences will find new and exciting. We want to explore the impact of social media and TV reality shows on the way we live today, and to show what it means to be a hero in a new light. We couldn't ask for a better partner than SK Global, a wonderfully unique company with an international mindset that we believe will be invaluable in bringing this diverse group of reality-based heroes to a live-action series.”

Executive producers include long time face to the series, Masayuki Ozaki, who is also an executive producer on the latest "TIGER & BUNNY 2," SK Global co-founder and co-chairman Sidney Kimmel, showrunner M. Raven Metzner, and Hollywood live-action "COWBOY BEBOP" producer, and SK Global's co-founder and co-chairman, Sidney Kimmel. The producers are SK Global co-founder and co-chairman Sidney Kimmel, SK Global showrunner M. Raven Metzner, and Tetsuya Fujimura, who worked on the Hollywood live-action films COWBOY BEBOP and GHOST IN THE SHELL.

Executive Producer, Masayuki Ozaki (Namco Bandai Pictures, Namco Bandai Music Live) also comments:

“The live-action project of "TIGER & BUNNY" has had many twists and turns, and we needed the understanding and support of many people in order to revive the project. We have been blessed with good fortune to have found a great partner like SK Global, a company that values Asian IP and partners, which has helped us reach a new starting point in the midst of difficult circumstances. We look forward to working with talented showrunner M. Raven Metzner, a lover of all things Taibani, to bring to life the essence of the original animated series, and to bring something new and exciting for audiences around the world to enjoy.”

Source: Sunrise-inc.co.jp Press Release

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Tiger & Bunny Live-Action Project to Be Relaunched as a Television Series

Tiger & Bunny Live-Action Project to Be Relaunched as a Television Series

Bandai Namco Pictures has announced a new partnership with SK Global to develop the Tiger & Bunny anime series into a Hollywood live-action television series. M. Raven Metzner is serving as script writer/showrunner. Back in 2015, Sunrise announced a live-action film adaptation project of the anime, however, the plan has remained in limbo. The executive producers are Masayuki Ozaki, who has also…

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SK Global e Bandai Namco Pictures intendono produrre una serie live action di Tiger & Bunny #BandaiNamcoPictures #Sunrise #TigerBunny

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Their hands are all dirty: Phillip Iscove, Alex Kurtzman, Roberto Orci, Heather Kadin, Mark Goffman Damian Kindler, Albert Kim, M. Raven Metzner, Len Wiseman, Leigh Dana Jackson, Clifton Campbell