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BRAVEN: Jason Momoa Strikes Back In The First Trailer For Lin Oeding’s Directing Debut

Lin Oeding has surely come a long way from from propeling himself into a full-fledged stunt career in the late 1990s. His craft would find him more than a decade later in the director’s chair for his 2008 debut short, Interpretation, which would live on to become a darling throughout the U.S. festival circuit in the year that followed. That project would, as well, be the first of several to follow synonymous with his fruitful stunt career thereafter. Thus, enter Braven, making headway for Oeding’s narrative feature debut with Jason Momoa joining in for another round of action movie screentime as sampled now in the first official trailer for its Singapore release. When Joe Braven (Jason Momoa), a humble logger residing along the U.S./Canada border is confronted by a group of deadly drug runners who have stashed heroin in his secluded cabin in the mountains, he must do everything in […]

FIVE-A-DAY ROUND-UP III: Diamond Dogs, The Invincible Dragon, Braven, Attrition, Foxtrot Six

Lee B. Golden III

The recent SgIFF world premiere of Gavin Lim’s latest small-budget thriller, Diamond Dogs, was something of a call to action for Singapore’s moviegoing audience to try and nourish its own before gaining a foothold on the world stage. The move was an albeit success and will hopefully edge action star Sunny Pang toward international stardom, here tackling the role of Johnny, deaf mute and prisoner to an underground fight circuit where he’s locked away and forced to fight to the top unless his stage three cancer kills him first. Pang caught waves of love from festival crowds while promoting Headshot last year and so let’s hope there’s an interest sparked in this latest thrilling Asian starrer. Jason Momoa may be eager to move onto The Crow with Corin Hardy as we await what lies ahead for Aquaman. Until then, his latest endeavor as a family man and logger who looks […]

Stuntman Lin Oeding To Direct Jason Momoa Actioner, BRAVEN

Lee B. Golden III

A little bit of Googling will send you a little action experiment by director Sheldon Schwartz. Hopefully you’ve managed to check it out and if not, you can do so here and catch some really cool action sequences directed by none other than seasoned stuntman and stunt coordinator, Lin Oeding. With credits like Olympus Has Fallen, The Equalizer, Ant-Man and Straight Outta Compton to his name on top of the dozens more listed on his IMDb page, you can safely say that Oeding has built himself a resumè worthy enough to land him in the director’s chair. As such, with three directorial short film credits to his name, his latest feature-length prospects have prospects have finally arrived. THR reports that Momoa will star in the new action thriller, Braven, with Oeding at the helm. Conceived by Mike Nilon and written by Thomas Pa’a Sibbett, Braven will depict the story of […]