Christian Sesma seemingly never stops working. A self-taught filmmaker, Sesma has been directing since 2006 at an incredibly productive rate. In that time, he has completed (and found distribution) for more than twenty feature-length genre films.
Highland Film Group has revealed a first look photo from The Recall helmer Mauro Borrelli’s supernatural war thriller, Warhunt.
Actor Michael Jai White will star in The Commando, according to Deadline’s Anthony D’Alessandro on Monday.. White, coming off of recently completed actioners such as Christian Sesma’s Take Back, and Jon Keeyes’s Red 48, joins Mickey Rourke who boarded the project last month, with word that production will commence in New Mexico this month.
Boxing aficionados may recall the story of Sikh flyweight champion Pardeep Singh Nagra and his refusal to appease the Canadian boxing hierarchy by shaving. At day’s end, Nagra’s story certainly resonates as one of true inspiration and noticeably why it would grip the attention of actor Prem Singh (Breakaway) who would then partner with screenwriter Michael Pugilese to put together a fitting feature in boxing biopic, Tiger.
With Skin Trade currently in post production, cinematic blockbuster action hero Dolph Lundgren‘s time is now being spent with Saints And Soldiers trilogy helmer Ryan Little for the forthcoming production of War Pigs, a World War II action adventure epic about a disgraced U.S. Army captain assigned to train a rag tag team of soldiers to infiltrate the Nazi regime and destroy their secret “wonder weapon”. Screenwriters Andrew Knightlinger and producer Steven Luke are providing the script with a meaty cast of action muscle with fellow Expendables alum Mickey Rourke along with MMA pro Chuck Liddell and actor Luke Goss.
The film reportedly has funding, but recently tried to raise a little extra on Kickstarter to pay for extras and other vehicle props before crowdfunding was cancelled sometime thereafter. I suppose this means they have the funds now, although I’m not sure. Whatever the case may be, Lundgren fans clammoring for more of the usual action fanfare have something to look forward to when War Pigs finally comes out.
On the other hand, things get even better with word that Lundgren will be joining another Expendables franchise alum and Universal Soldier: Day Of Reckoning co-star, action star Scott Adkins for their new flick, 4 Towers, with actor Gianni Capaldi rumored to be joining the two along with actress Kelly Overton. The writers and director are unknown at this point but the plot is said to center around Italy’s tactical SWAT team and interpol units as they infiltrate an 11th century castle where a Serbian ex-soldier has taken a corporate dinner company hostage in an attempt to capture Mussolini’s cursed gold and treasure. Promising another chock-full of action and spectacle with thrilling knife fights to boot, 4 Towers sounds like a good way to keep things running on the action front, especially if you’ve been hoping for another Adkins actioner following his departure from director Stephen Fung’s Kickboxer remake.
Adkins is on the way with his next collaboration with director Isaac Florentine in Close Range, and is also up to appear opposite action star and debut director Wu Jing in Wolf Warrior this December in China. Next year he’ll be seen with actor Sacha Baron Cohen in the upcoming comedy, Grimsby, and director Ariel Vroman’s Criminal with Kevin Costner and Ryan Renyolds.
Lundgren will join fellow action hero Tony Jaa in Skin Trade sometime next year, with dates also to be announced for Goss‘s appearances in director Christian Sesma’s AWOL 72 with RZA, and The Nightcrew with Paul Sloan and Bokeem Woodbine.
Stay tuned for more info!
H/T: The Action Elite
The new trailer for Sin City 2: A Dame To Kill For, may very well be the sexiest trailer I have ever seen for any action movie as of late. Ever.
Directed by Robert Rodriguez and original graphic novel author Frank Miller, the film made a splash at San Diego Comic-Con over the weekend promoting the sequel to 2005’s Sin City, and this week, the official SDCC red-band trailer has now gone viral. To be honest though, I don’t even need to say much beyond this point. The trailer pretty much sells itself, and yes, it’s quite sexy, in almost every way imaginable.
SYNOPSIS:
In the dark alleys of Sin City, Dwight (Josh Brolin taking over from Clive Owen) seeks revenge against the woman who betrayed him, femme fatale Ava Lord (Eva Green). Meanwhile, Nancy (Jessica Alba) is trying to cope with the death of her protector, Detective Hartigan (Bruce Willis), and a gambler named Johnny (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) is out to destroy his enemy at his best game.
Watch the footage and get ready for its August 22 release!
P.S. – Eva Green, you had me at your first character poster. 😉
The promotional campaign for the latest noir action crime follow-up from co-directors Robert Rodriguez and graphic novelist Frank Miller, Sin City: A Dame To Kill For, had a small share of mild controversy in the past few weeks due to the MPAA’s banned poster with actress Eva Green’s right boob; A non-issue if you ask me. I dig the poster, and I’m hard-pressed to believe I’m alone in its approval.
At any rate, the film is poised to release nationwide on August 22. I still need to see the first film so I can have a viable opinion. And this is my niche too, so… yeah.
*Sigh* …Life gets in the way of living. (borrowing that one from Darren actually, lol.)
Check out the trailer below and feel free to take a gander at the latest Reddit AMA Miller himself hosted on Wednesday!
SYNOPSIS:
Co-directors Robert Rodriguez and Frank Miller reunite to bring Miller’s visually stunning “Sin City” graphic novels back to the big screen in Sin City: A Dame To Kill For. Weaving together two of Miller’s classic stories with new tales, the town’s most hard boiled citizens cross paths with some of its more notorious inhabitants.
Following the release of an animated trailer teaser on Wednesday with a recent slate of teaser photos this month a new trailer was unveiled for the upcoming release of Sin City: A Dame To Kill For, written to interlink stories set before and after the events of the 2005 film, Sin City. The film arrives in theaters on August 22, 2014 with plans already in motion for a third installment.
Actor and martial arts superstar Gary Daniels continues his post-Expendables momentum as one of the most hard-working and memorable action performers of our generation, this time taking to the set for co-writer, producer and director Ara Paiaya‘s gritty international action flick, Skin Traffik. The film sees Daniels as a hitman who flips the script against a ruthless criminal underworld, unleashing his own brand of justice, and to illustrate this, Raging Pictures has a brand new trailer this week – quite worth the look if Red Band/NSFW is more your speed.
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