Jean-Claude Van Damme Co-Starring In ‘Kickboxer’ Remake
JCVD has become the teacher. Multiple remakes ofJean-Claude Van Dammeaction movies from the ’80s are brewing, and while one doesn’t want him, another has embraced the man who generated the audiences to make a remake possible in the first place.Kickboxeris being remade with a new cast, and in the Kickboxer remake Jean-Claude Van Damme will now play the role of the master who teaches martial arts to a promising young student.
THRreports that Van Damme will play a revamped version of Master Chow, originally played by Dennis Chan in the 1989 film that helped propel Van Damme to stardom.
In the remake, JCVD will be teaching the combat arts toAlain Moussi, who has been a stunt performer in films such asX-Men: Days of Future Past,Pompeii, andBrick Mansions. He plays Kurt Sloan, " a talented martial artist who travels to Thailand where he must learn the secrets of the kickboxer to avenge his brother’s death at the hands of Tong Po (Dave Bautista)."
Georges St. Pierre, aka Batroc fromCaptain America: The Winter Soldier,is also in the cast.John Stockwellis directing, and the newKickboxerbegins shooting in New Orleans this week before eventually moving to Thailand.Dimitri LogothetisandJim McGrathwrote the script.
Producer Ted Field said,
We are so excited to have Kickboxer roll into production and to have JCVD in the role of Master Chow, passing the torch to Alain, to have him lead the franchise to a new generation.
Meanwhile, the writer of that other JCVD remake,Bloodsport, had said there wasno place for the action star in the new version. Maybe this will cause a change of heart, assuming that film is even still kicking.
