Coming pretty swiftly on the heels of the confirmation James McTeigue will helm the big screen remake of the corny-yet-rousing 1988 Jean-Claude Van Damme martial-arts hit BLOODSPORT (and earlier last month a TIMECOP reboot), we have news of another Van Damme ‘cliched action classic’ headed to the big screen.
KICKBOXER, which originally arrived a year after BLOODSPORT and was directed by Mark DiSalle and David Worth, is to get the reboot treatment courtesy of Radar Pictures and director Stephen Fung. Again, we’re still unsure how much it will stick to the plot of character Kurt Sloane, who trains in the art of Muay Thai to avenge his brother’s death.
Rising filmmaker Fung, whose most recent directing effort was the well-recieved TAI CHI ZERO, will work from a script by Dimitri Logothetis and Jim McGrath.
Tomorrow, expect a re-imagining of Van Damme’s directorial debut dud THE QUEST (I tremble at the thought) to be announced!
Source: Deadline
