Hollywood once again remaking a great movie.

[horchata kid]

[h2]Phillip Noyce Set to Remake Jean Claude Van Damme's 'Bloodsport'[/h2]
May 17, 2011
Source: Screen Daily
by Ethan Anderton

After helming the 2010 summer action flick Salt, director Phillip Noyce has been linked to several different projects. There's Our Wild Life with Nicole Kidman circling the lead role, an adaptation of an unpublished Navy SEALs thriller Firing Point, the time travel drama Timeless, and the spy flickWenceslas Square. Now the filmmaker finds himself linked to another project as Screen Daily has heard news out of Cannes that Noyce is set to direct a remake of the 1988 Jean Claude Van Damme action flick Bloodsport with Robert Mark Kamen, writer behind Fifth Element, Taken and The Transporterfranchise, scripting it.

While the original film took place in Hong Kong following a fighter competing in an illegal underground martial-arts competition where serious injury and even death are not unknown. This time, the story has some slight changes following an American who goes to Brazil to recover from the violence he has experienced in Afghanistan who gets involved in a martial arts contest. Obviously the incorporation of Afghanistan is what makes it a contemporary take on the story, but I'm betting the action and fighting probably won't make this too much of a departure from the original. The real question is who will step up to take the role filled by Jean Cladue Van Damme? Thoughts?




http://www.firstshowing.net/2011/phillip-noyce-set-to-remake-jean-claude-van-dammes-bloodsport/

Why? Why why why?!

 

[horchata kid]

[h2]Phillip Noyce Set to Remake Jean Claude Van Damme's 'Bloodsport'[/h2]
May 17, 2011
Source: Screen Daily
by Ethan Anderton

After helming the 2010 summer action flick Salt, director Phillip Noyce has been linked to several different projects. There's Our Wild Life with Nicole Kidman circling the lead role, an adaptation of an unpublished Navy SEALs thriller Firing Point, the time travel drama Timeless, and the spy flickWenceslas Square. Now the filmmaker finds himself linked to another project as Screen Daily has heard news out of Cannes that Noyce is set to direct a remake of the 1988 Jean Claude Van Damme action flick Bloodsport with Robert Mark Kamen, writer behind Fifth Element, Taken and The Transporterfranchise, scripting it.

While the original film took place in Hong Kong following a fighter competing in an illegal underground martial-arts competition where serious injury and even death are not unknown. This time, the story has some slight changes following an American who goes to Brazil to recover from the violence he has experienced in Afghanistan who gets involved in a martial arts contest. Obviously the incorporation of Afghanistan is what makes it a contemporary take on the story, but I'm betting the action and fighting probably won't make this too much of a departure from the original. The real question is who will step up to take the role filled by Jean Cladue Van Damme? Thoughts?




http://www.firstshowing.net/2011/phillip-noyce-set-to-remake-jean-claude-van-dammes-bloodsport/

Why? Why why why?!

 

[venom lyrix]

I have a couple choices on who should play Van Damme's character.

- Tom Hardy or Joel Edgerton (both will be MMA fighters in the upcoming Warrior)

- Ryan Reynolds could pull it off

- If you don't want to go the conventional route, Anthony Mackie is an amazing actor and about to blow up

 

[venom lyrix]

I have a couple choices on who should play Van Damme's character.

- Tom Hardy or Joel Edgerton (both will be MMA fighters in the upcoming Warrior)

- Ryan Reynolds could pull it off

- If you don't want to go the conventional route, Anthony Mackie is an amazing actor and about to blow up

 

[nash]

I'll be ecstatic when this trend of remaking every halfway profitable movie from the last 40 years is over.

 

[nash]

I'll be ecstatic when this trend of remaking every halfway profitable movie from the last 40 years is over.

 

[illphillip]

This reminded me of.....

http://www.cracked.com/bl...-their-way-to-legendary/

Read #1. Good times.

 

[illphillip]

This reminded me of.....

http://www.cracked.com/bl...-their-way-to-legendary/

Read #1. Good times.

 

[venom lyrix]

Originally Posted by Nash

I'll be ecstatic when this trend of remaking every halfway profitable movie from the last 40 years is over.

it'll never happen.

 

[venom lyrix]

Originally Posted by Nash

I'll be ecstatic when this trend of remaking every halfway profitable movie from the last 40 years is over.

it'll never happen.

 

[supa vegetto]

still waiting on my sequel to bebe's kid's. rip robin harris

 

[supa vegetto]

still waiting on my sequel to bebe's kid's. rip robin harris

 

[swyftdahoe]

Screw this! I'd rather see a Citizen Kane remake before a Bloodsport remake! Blasphemy!

 

[swyftdahoe]

Screw this! I'd rather see a Citizen Kane remake before a Bloodsport remake! Blasphemy!

 

[djprestige21]

To soon.



Going to watch though.

 

[djprestige21]

To soon.



Going to watch though.

 

[zk1mpls]

From the link an NTer posted above me.

#1.

Frank Dux

FrankDux was a spy and a master of Ninjitsu, which is just a Japanese wordfor somersaulting megaspy. He was the best. He trained under a shidoshiwhose name was only coincidentally the name of a James Bond villain. Hewas in a covert branch of the military so secret that even our militarydidn't know about him. He didn't exist so hard that birds *%*# rightthrough him. But someone did know about him: a shadowy society ofmartial artists who run a tournament called The Kumite. They invitedFrank to enter, and that was their last mistake.
From 1975 to 1980, he was the undefeated Full Contact KumiteWorld Heavy Weight Champion. He had 56 consecutive knockouts in onetournament, a number too stupid to be fake. He set four world recordsin the same tournament including Fastest Recorded Kick with Knockout:72 miles-per-hour. The Kumite Athletic Commission figured it was OK tokeep radar guns pointed at the fighters at all times since Frankremoved most of their gonads before the long term effects of radarexposure could manifest. In fact, Frank Dux punched so many @+%*#through their sacred walls that city temple inspectors shut them downfor code violations.

Suspiciously, the organization that held the Kumite seemed toshare a home address with Frank Dux, and the trophy they gave him wasthe same trophy that he suspiciously paid for himself. Think aboutthat: The Kumite is so secret that the only paper trail leads to FrankDux, professional secret agent. That means that the otherfighters, while obviously not very good at fighting, are unbelievablygood at being secret. Why, if Frank Dux hadn't written a book aboutthem and bought himself that trophy, I doubt I'd have even believedthey existed.

How It Ended: Awesomely

In 1988, Frank's extremely true story was made into the film Bloodsportwhich is still Jean-Claude Van Damme's best movie. Dux worked on thefilm as the fighting coordinator where he taught Van Damme how toproperly get punched in the face for several minutes and then win byspin kick. Jean-Claude would go on to use these fighting techniquesexclusively for two decades.

Years later, Dux and Van Damme worked together on the story of The Quest. It was a film like Bloodsport only with Bloodsportelements. Dux took Van Damme to court because he was apparentlypromised a huge gross revenue deal for his "Story By" credit. In thefilm industry, this type of arrangement is almost as common as anactual ninja spy holding a trophy for Best Ninja Spy. To see both ofthese things in the same place would be like finding a human vagina onyour unicorn. Literally +!+%%++ incredible.

Frank Dux never managed to produce evidence of this amazingagreement since the documents were in a box that was destroyed by afire. Fitting in perfectly with his life of the fantastic, this firewas a magical fire that destroyed document boxes and nothing else. Itsounds ridiculous now, but imagine you were a judge residing over acase between the cocaine-filled star of Double Impact and an actual, real-life superninja who controls fire. That judge said exactly what you would say: "Pay the man, Timecop."

Read more: 7 Fighters Who Lied Their Way to Legendary | Cracked.com http://www.cracked.com/blog/7-fighters-who-lied-their-way-to-legendary/#ixzz1MgTY8ock

Why? Why why why?!



First the Karate Kid, now this?

 

[zk1mpls]

From the link an NTer posted above me.

#1.

Frank Dux

FrankDux was a spy and a master of Ninjitsu, which is just a Japanese wordfor somersaulting megaspy. He was the best. He trained under a shidoshiwhose name was only coincidentally the name of a James Bond villain. Hewas in a covert branch of the military so secret that even our militarydidn't know about him. He didn't exist so hard that birds *%*# rightthrough him. But someone did know about him: a shadowy society ofmartial artists who run a tournament called The Kumite. They invitedFrank to enter, and that was their last mistake.
From 1975 to 1980, he was the undefeated Full Contact KumiteWorld Heavy Weight Champion. He had 56 consecutive knockouts in onetournament, a number too stupid to be fake. He set four world recordsin the same tournament including Fastest Recorded Kick with Knockout:72 miles-per-hour. The Kumite Athletic Commission figured it was OK tokeep radar guns pointed at the fighters at all times since Frankremoved most of their gonads before the long term effects of radarexposure could manifest. In fact, Frank Dux punched so many @+%*#through their sacred walls that city temple inspectors shut them downfor code violations.

Suspiciously, the organization that held the Kumite seemed toshare a home address with Frank Dux, and the trophy they gave him wasthe same trophy that he suspiciously paid for himself. Think aboutthat: The Kumite is so secret that the only paper trail leads to FrankDux, professional secret agent. That means that the otherfighters, while obviously not very good at fighting, are unbelievablygood at being secret. Why, if Frank Dux hadn't written a book aboutthem and bought himself that trophy, I doubt I'd have even believedthey existed.

How It Ended: Awesomely

In 1988, Frank's extremely true story was made into the film Bloodsportwhich is still Jean-Claude Van Damme's best movie. Dux worked on thefilm as the fighting coordinator where he taught Van Damme how toproperly get punched in the face for several minutes and then win byspin kick. Jean-Claude would go on to use these fighting techniquesexclusively for two decades.

Years later, Dux and Van Damme worked together on the story of The Quest. It was a film like Bloodsport only with Bloodsportelements. Dux took Van Damme to court because he was apparentlypromised a huge gross revenue deal for his "Story By" credit. In thefilm industry, this type of arrangement is almost as common as anactual ninja spy holding a trophy for Best Ninja Spy. To see both ofthese things in the same place would be like finding a human vagina onyour unicorn. Literally +!+%%++ incredible.

Frank Dux never managed to produce evidence of this amazingagreement since the documents were in a box that was destroyed by afire. Fitting in perfectly with his life of the fantastic, this firewas a magical fire that destroyed document boxes and nothing else. Itsounds ridiculous now, but imagine you were a judge residing over acase between the cocaine-filled star of Double Impact and an actual, real-life superninja who controls fire. That judge said exactly what you would say: "Pay the man, Timecop."

Read more: 7 Fighters Who Lied Their Way to Legendary | Cracked.com http://www.cracked.com/blog/7-fighters-who-lied-their-way-to-legendary/#ixzz1MgTY8ock

Why? Why why why?!



First the Karate Kid, now this?