Jean-Claude Van Damme will star in one last action movie, What's My Name?, featuring rematches with iconic opponents from his film career.
✖ Action movie legend Jean-Claude Van Damme will make one last action movie before retiring from the genre. Deadline reports that Van Damme will star in What's My Name? Jeremy Zag is directing the film, which blurs the line between fiction and Van Damme's personal life, similar to Van Damme's 2008 movie JCVD and 2016 television series Jean-Claude Van Johnson. Van Damme plays himself in the film as he wakes up from a coma after a car crash and finds he has amnesia.
"I wanted to leave the stage but with a revisit of my career, starting with Bloodsport, the one where I started to become famous," Van Damme tells Deadline."I want this to be a new Bloodsport but on a higher level. In the film, I am on my way down in terms of career, and as I come out of a premiere of another action movie, I am not happy because I've been living in hotels the past 30 years, which is actually true.
The report does not confirm any other stars who will appear in the movie. However, likely candidates include Universal Soldier's Dolph Lundgren, Kickboxer's Michel Qissi, and Double Impact's Bolo Yeung. "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 superhero," Zag says."I grew up watching JC and want new audiences to do the same thing, and when he stands against Tong Po, he'll begin to flashback in his mind, and we will reproduce some of the best fights from some of his biggest movies.
0commentsVan Damme adds,"We are getting all of the iconic people I fought and have most of them come back. All of the UFC fighters grew up watching my movies, and we will have some of those great champions as fighters, and some as managers like Randy Couture. We'll have a great mix and the fights will have a real feel to them."
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