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STEEL RISING: An Interview With Larnell Stovall

*The following is an interview I did back in 2014. I made some HTML fixes but for some reason, Blogger took it upon itself to update as a new post for 2016. At any rate, it was purely accidental, I hope it serves up a nice little read for fans. Enjoy! The past few weeks have seen a slight shift in gears for me. I hadn’t done any formal interviews with anyone for a long time until about a few weeks ago, and I posted a batch of them just last week. I admit, I may need a break this weekend, although I like the momentum I have seen and maybe I’ve found a pattern I could work around as I would love to continue to share even more stories on my site from extraordinary people working in the film today. Don’t get me wrong though. I don’t use the […]

And The Winner Of Our LIFE OF ACTION Contest Is…

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It’s not everyday that you get to win a free book, much less one that is attributed to some of the best of the best in the industy of action and stunts on film. However, casting any more formalities aside from the preceding suspenseful week-and-a-half, today is the day we announce the winner of our Life Of Action contest and congratulate Ross Brown for answering our trivia question with the ONLY correct answer, and I mean that literally. The contest brought a total of sixteen people of which I had to exclude three for not adhering to the directions I set last week for the contest. That said, even with just that much of a handful of people, I was surprised that only one person got the answer correct to the following question: “What is the correct spelling of the full (first and last) name of the character Scott Adkins […]

Scott Adkins Returns To Play Boyka In UNDISPUTED 4 This June

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It’s a week of really great news for fans of action star Scott Adkins. His most recent pairing with director Isaac Florentine for Compound B’s Close Range wrapped earlier this year and two new titles have made headlines for him as well, with the current filming of Jarhead: The Siege and the forthcoming theatrical overseas release of his performance with action star and debut director, Wu Jing in Wolf Warrior next month. Now comes word from The Action Elite that Adkins will be putting the tattoos, knee, wrist and ankle wraps once more as the cult character favorite, Yuri Boyka in a hotly awaited fourth installment of the Undisputed franchise starting this June. No doubt, Florentine will be back to direct in what will be his eighth movie with the actor and featuring fight choreography by Undisputed 3 action auteur Larnell Stovall, and screenwriter David N. White who wrote the […]

Scott Adkins And Isaac Florentine Reunite For CLOSE RANGE!

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Well, you know what they say: If it ain’t broken, don’t fix it! Nearly eleven years after pairing together for the direct-to-video/DVD 2003 martial arts action adventure war flick, Special Forces, premiere action filmmaker Isaac Florentine and martial arts action superstar Scott Adkins are preparing to team once more for a new action thriller in the form of Close Range, courtesy of Compound B. The film sees Adkins starring as Colton MacReady, a man left vulnerable by a corrupt sheriff and his men while cornered in his own ranch and forced to protect his family from a blood-thirsty drug cartel after rescuing his niece from their capture. The announcement comes on the heels of the successful fan support of the recently released Ninja: Shadow Of A Tear, and will mark their eighth team-up as lead actor and director on a film, accompanied by the latest announcement of Adkins‘ return to […]

Gareth Evans Endorses Scott Adkins For A Starring Role In BAD BOYS 3

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Unleash The Fanboy forwarded the latest news via Twitter that writer and director Gareth Evans annouced his latest endorsement for martial arts action superstar star Scott Adkins for the villain role in the forthcoming production of Bad Boys 3. The tweet from the famed helmer of Indonesian action vehicle Merantau, The Raid: Redemption and the upcoming Sundance premiere of The Raid 2: Berandal came just after it was announced at Deadline on Monday night that Safe House screenwriter David Guggenheim was added to provide the screenplay for the third installation of the Bad Boys trilogy which began in 1995 with actors Will Smith and Martin Lawrence and director Michael Bay. I vote @TheScottAdkins for major villainy in Bad Boys 3. Two on one fight – mix gunplay with martial arts. Make it happen. — Gareth Evans (@ghuwevans) December 11, 2013 Best known for his spectacular feats in martial arts action […]

Ninja 2 Producer Frank DeMartini Confirms UNDISPUTED 4 At Fantastic Fest

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According to an update from Fantastic Fest via Twitch, film producer Frank DeMartini responded to a fan question on Friday night regarding the currently developing fourth installment of the Undisputed franchise, by saying the following (click the link for the full context): “The Undisputed 4 script is being written right now by David White and it should shoot in the spring. Unless Scott wants too much money.” The answer came from a Q&A panel that acconpanied the festival premiere of director Isaac Florentine’s latest action thriller, Ninja: Shadow Of A Tear, starring Scott Adkins and actress Mika Hiji, all of whom appeared for the Friday night panel, in front of an attending crowd. Also sitting in attendance among the audience members was actor and Undisputed 3: Redemption co-star Marko Zaror, to whom Adkins and Florentine expressed their hopes to work with him again in the near future. Zaror currently stars in the […]