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Universal Soldier 5
Today is a day of glorious action news. We learn thanks to an interview with MTV than a third Universal Soldier film is in the works, and JCVD is on board. Peep the following chat -
After years of rumors and suspect IMDB updates, Jean-Claude Van Damme just told me he’s in for the third “Universal Soldier” movie.
“I don’t know if they want to make it a video release or theatrical,” he said. Actually there are a lot of question marks, like is he really starring in the film or is this a glorified cameo? “I’m just going to do 10 days.” Hmm, so what about Dolph Lundgren? He’s back, right?!? “I told them, guys bring in Dolph! They said there’s no more value [to cast him]. I said, ‘it will have value with me!’”
Stallone heads up a bitchin action film and now we get another Van Damme cyborg film! Today is good.
I have a strong desire to become a cyborg. If at the age of 95 I will willingly sign up for cybernetic experimentation and hope to be one of the proud cyborgs of earth. I would prefer a full conversion where no human body remains, only the necessary brain, spine and guts. I also would like to have tank treads, or a lower half like a spider. Bipeds are suckers.
I am glad too see JCVD back as a cyborg warrior, I am sad that Dolph will not be back but am glad we will see JCVD anew.
I could watch cyborg films all the live long day and am pumped that we will get another outing from this familiar franchise. While this is technically the fifth Universal Soldier Project, it is the third in which JCVD is involved. I’m not sure if they are forgetting about the made for TV 2 and 3, but news of this, soon we shall see.
I LOVED the original Universal Soldier, not seen much of the others, probably turned them off actually but this sounds great.
I too would like to become a cyborg. Your brain has to be shown a little, floating in a primary coloured goo. Hidden weapons and funky sound effect when (parts of) you move are the icing on the cake
Today isn’t that good, Doug.
“Universal Soldier” has zero to do with ‘cyborgs’. The soldiers were more along the lines of Frankenstien, re-animated dead tissue* which was part of the reason why “Universal Soldier 2″ failed (among other things) it threw out that aspect in favor of some computer taking over and possessing a (dead) soldier. In the first film the point was clearly made that the soldiers cannot “heat up” past a point, or they will return to the dead and cannot regenerate.
I loosely recall the cable films Adox refers to (aside from who was in them- Gary Busey, Burt Reynolds and Jeff Wincott) and I recall my huge disappointment in Van Damme’s ‘official’ sequel to Universal Soldier, which was a crazy mess.
But if they get back to the regeneration/ice pack plot point, then any of the following could happen in a plot:
1) The Universal Sodier program is reactivated, but the sodiers are now a martial arts army of the living dead/Zombie army with bowie and butterfly knives;
2) A chopped up Sgt. Scott (Dolph) has been sewn back together because his body regenerated somehow (see-you can sort of cheat and get away with it!)
3) The new Unisols are all chicks and now they have to strip down to sit in icetubs.
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I’d like to see Van Damme have Hard Target II myself.
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Van Damme was in a film called ‘Cyborg’. He didn’t play one. Angelina Jolie did in the sequel.