March 3rd, 2010 | 
Author: by Steven Roberts
When Method Man mentioned to MTV News last September that he Ghostface and Raekwon were gearing up to release a collaborative album, anticipation started to mount. With arguably three of the most popular Wu-members collaborating, director Rik Cordero wanted to make a movie out of the event. When Def Jam commissioned the music video director to make three trailers for the album he drew inspiration from director David Fincher’s “Se7en.”
“I was commissioned by Def Jam to do Wu-Massacre trailers, and basically there are three trailers, all based on the movie ‘Se7en,’” Cordero said. “So basically Ghost, Rae, and Meth do all these criminal acts that are based on the sins. It’s pretty dope that we had a Morgan Freeman-esque character and Brad Pitt character stumble upon these crime scenes, and Meth, Rae, and Ghost leave their marks.”
The first trailer was released just before Halloween last year and it featured two detectives reporting to a scene of, well, a massacre. The victim’s face is wrapped in a blood-soaked bandages and one of the forensics specialists on scene notes that his nose has been cut off. The camera then pans to a mirror which she had been dusting for fingerprints to reveal “TICAL” written in blood across it.
Two similar trailers followed featuring gruesome murders supposedly perpetrated by Ghostface and Raekwon, as the names “STARKS” and “The CHEF” are left behind in blood. None of the Wu-members are featured in the trailers. Def Jam and the three Clan were members were so happy they wanted Cordero to direct the first video off of “Wu-Massacre.”
“I saw the trailer and it looked like a movie and I was like, yo, I don’t know he just rocked it,” said Ghostface. As for Cordero, he was thrilled about the reception of those earlier trailers considering there were low expectations.
“I think it was real good for me that there were no expectations of what the trailers was going to be. You know, everybody was like, ‘All right let him do it.’ And then when I delivered it, they were like ‘Wow this is a movie.’ And the thing that was really cool about it was that none of the guys are in it, but it captures the spirit. And you instantly recognize the Wu-Tang aesthetic just by how we shot it, you know what I mean? And really shooting it like a real story and not just a music video. So that was a blessing and real honor that the guys liked it and said let’s move forward with the video.”
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