EXCLUSIVE: In a hot package for EFM buyers this weekend, Jean-Claude Van Damme will star in What’s My Name? Directed by Jeremy Zag, the film will be produced by Cross Creek’s Tyler Thom…
, the film will be produced by Cross Creek’s Tyler Thompson, alongside Zag and Van Damme. Cross Creek is fully financing a film that will reunite the fighting icon in matches against some of his past screen rivals.will dip into his cinematic and personal life — as did the 2008 filmGreen Book
scribe Nick Vallelonga and Paul Sloan wrote the script, based on a story by Van Damme. Wild Bunch International is handling foreign sales and CAA Media Finance is representing the film’s domestic distribution rights.In the film, Van Damme will play himself. Left in a coma following a serious car accident, he wakes up with amnesia, unrecognizable to everyone, including himself.
Said Zag: “He’s trapped in this Catch-22 where his heart is his only guide and that road will lead him through a journey that includes a lot of fights, in what will be a real action mainstream movie where we treat JC as a real human super hero.” What’s fun is that for Van Damme the character to regain his mojo, he will fight a lot of the on-screen opponents that made him a star for his acrobatic high-flying style. That likely will include
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