Kind of a ho-hum trailer. I'm still looking forward to the movie, though. It looks like it does some of what I wanted
Iron Fist to do*. Disney should hire whoever does the trailers for Warner Bros' DCEU movies.
* I heard a podcast a few years ago about a Chinese-American guy, went to China and everybody there just saw him as American, but in America, everybody saw him as Chinese. I thought it was fascinating. So if I'd written
Iron Fist, I would have made Danny Rand Asian-American. Gets aggravated with the US, goes to Asia to find his roots. Play up the "stranger in a strange land" thing, feels unsettled everywhere he goes, too American for Asia, too Asian for America. He ends up in K'un-L'un - training sequences; the Seven Capital Cities of Heaven; Shou Lao the Undying - then he comes home to New York, finds trouble, let the superhero shenanigans begin. (Unfortunately, this was all around the same time as
Doctor Strange. I'm not sure how I'd differentiate the two.) Danny meets Madame Gao from the first season of
Daredevil, is running roughshod over New York's underworld. Remember the blinded people enslaved in Gao's drug lab? Daredevil never really hit that in the face, so Iron Fist would. Gao would turn out to be Crane Mother, bring in Steel Serpent. Play up the supernatural aspects of Danny's powers. Give him just a touch of super-speed. Not like Quicksilver and The Flash, not that kind of super-speed; more like, "What if Jet Li got the Super-Soldier serum? How fast would that guy's hands be?" Anyway...