Actor Matthias Hues (I Come In Peace) will rejoin Alexander Nevsky in front of the camera for the current Los Angeles production of Joe Cornet’s new film, Savage Attack. The two have previously worked on films such as crime thriller Black Rose, action adventure Maximum Impact, Showdown In Manila and Cornet’s upcoming Western, Assault On Rio Bravo, in which Nevsky also stars and will release later this year.
Alexander Nevsky (Moscow Heat, Black Rose) is advancing on Savage Attack, the long-awaited action project that first hit the radar back in June 2017. Nevsky will star and produce the pic, reuniting with Joe Cornet who will direct from a script by Craig Hamann.
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Keep in mind what lies ahead from multifaceted actor and producer Alexander Nevsky who made a steady and feasible effort in the past year with Black Rose. His biggest project thusfar, Mark Dacascos’s Showdown In Manila aims to top it having already been a reported hit in Russia and now stakes a U.S. release from ITN with Nevsky and actor Casper Van Dien who summon a team of badasses to tackle a terrorist organization upon uncovering a murder. January 19 is the limited theaters date followed by a Digital and VoD rollout on January 26.
Romeo Must Die and Cradle 2 The Grave helmer Andrzej Bartkowiak’s new film, Maximum Impact, is still a bit of an anomaly. The project doesn’t yet have a trailer but it is completed and has since garnered screenings at the American Film Market back in November with none other than Nevsky starring and producing for an ensemble cast. With a premise that sees agents for the CIA and Russia’s FSB joining forces to thwart an assassination attempt that could light the fuse for World War III, it’s a project that reads rightly for the kind of films that Nevsky expresses interest in making, and I look forward to the final product.
Long before Showdown In Manila had a release date and with Maximum Impact still waiting to have some…well…impact, Alexander Nevsky made public his intentions toward the production of Savage Attack. Currently in development, Nevsky is producing along with Maximum Impact helmer Andrzej Bartkowiak producing with a concept that sets in Asia and mingles Assault On Precinct 13 with Gareth Evans’s The Raid. The search for a director aside, let’s hope actor and fight choreographer Yayan Ruhian will be on board as well.
Actor and action star Sylvester Stallone is actually still surprising some people with the existence of sequels to the 2013 thriller, Escape Plan. Thus, we have Escape Plan: Hades, foreseeing the return of protagonist Ray Breslin forced to fight his way through an elaborate, evolving and computerized prison when one a member of his team gets kidnapped. Steven C. Miller directs with Curtis Jackson reprising, and actors Dave Bautista and Wes Chatham also starring from a release date pending from Lionsgate.
On location filming EXCAPE PLAN 2 HADES WITH Dave Bautista and Jesse Metcalfe … The scene was interesting challenge and turned out great … the film it really has a lot of energy and action Very glad to be part of it. I got a feeling they may be wanting to do a third one pretty soon… Count me in.@davebautista #Lions gate #EscapePlan2
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John Herzfeld takes the reigns thereafter with Escape Plan: Devil’s Station, bringing back Stallone, Bautista and Jackson once more for a story that sees Breslin engaged in a new prison setting in order to rescue the woman in his life from the son of one of his former enemies. One other cast member listed is actor Max Zhang who has been hitting it big in Asia and with titles like this and the upcoming Pacific Rim: Uprising, Zhang is bound to hit bigger.
Wrapping up a VERY rough day 15 hour day with award-winning Asian star Max Zhang ,after many physical fights and stunts … Max is fantastic and I had a great time and now moving onto the next project. #escapeplan3 #emmettfurlafilms #actionmovies #healthylife #exercise #mansfeildprison #ohio
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EXCLUSIVE: International action star Alexander Nevsky hit a personal career milestone this past Spring with the U.S. release of his murder mystery directorial debut, Black Rose. Onward, he still has at least two completed films coming down the pipeline, one of which includes Andrzej Bartkowiak’s upcoming action comedy, Maximum Impact, the latter which also has Mark Dacascos starring.
The other, Showdown In Manila, which stars the two with Dacascos debuting as director, became a hit overseas in Russia with a script by Craig Hamann who last directed Dacascos’s 1998 direct-to-video action thriller, Boogie Boy. As things stand, Nevsky and Hamann are now poised to reunite once more for a new project that will set up in Asia with Savage Attack as principal photography readies for the Fall.
We have included a first look photo of Nevsky from the film’s current development stage in his forthcoming return to the set. Hamann’s script will see Nevsky leading the TBA cast as a Russian-American CIA operative who springs into action when his former partner, working undercover, is caught and captured by the criminals he was infiltrating.
The project is being conceived as a cross between Assault On Precinct 13 and Gareth Evans’s The Raid with locations priming in The Philippines as well as Indonesia, the latter where Nevsky hopes to court notable local stunt talent, actor and fight choreographer Yayan Ruhian whose credits include hit thrillers namely Merantau, The Raid and its sequel, Miike Takashi’s Yakuza Apocalypse and Liam O’Donnell’s Beyond Skyline to name a few.
Nevsky is producing Savage Attack via his Hollywood Storm banner with Bartkowiak also producing while the search for a director continues. Bartkowiak’s Maximum Impact may see a late 2018 release with an official trailer arriving in the next few months.
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