Dolph Lundgren has been a busy action hero of late, with his latest action flick
Direct Contact hitting shelves on DVD and Blu-ray on June 2 and
Command Performance, which Lundgren directed, coming out later this year (which looks like a fun, die hard at a rock concert, action flick) plus he has the action epic
The Expendables being helmed by Sylvester Stallone and the interesting Universal Soldier sequel, titled
Universal Soldiers: The Next Generation. Check out what The Dolph had to say.
In a recent interview Lundgren told JoBlo how The Expendables came to be "Well, Stallone wanted to do a kind of DIRTY DOZEN type of picture with a bunch of action guys. So he came up with the idea about this group of mercenaries, they all have problems of various sorts. And Stallone is the leader who put it together. You know, I was just asked by him and I read the script and he has this one character in it that has changed quite a bit in the last six months. But he’s an interesting guy. He’s a bit of a fuck up and he’s got a lot of problems but he’s a good friend of Sly. And it is kind of like a family with its problems, and I’m like the outcast to some extent and it changes back and forth. I loved the script and you know, he started hiring a lot of famous people and I’m pleased to be a part of it."
"The first scene we did in the film was actually with Stallone where I get fired and I’m really upset… It was a great moment. I can feel, there is this certain image between Stallone and I anyway, there is a chemistry, an on-screen chemistry that was there originally twenty years ago. And it is still there. So it was kind of cool and you could feel the crew was like… you know, you have to push him and they’d gasp and that sort of thing [Laughing]. It was cool. Yeah, it was very nice and it is one of my favorite scenes."
"You know what I like about it is there was a real feeling of real people and it’s not superheroes and there is nobody flying though buildings. Nobody is out to save the world. You know, it’s quite down to earth. Just some guys hanging out, trying to help some people out and they all have their problems. You know, there is substance abuse, you know, other things with their families and I think that its fresh. Stallone writes those things very, very well. Even with his firsts, you know, ROCKY and F.I.S.T. and those type of movies. I think THE EXPENDABLES is one of his better scripts. It’s funny and it’s touching and it’s going to be cool. That’s what I think people are going to like about it, that its about real people."
The Dolph also confirms that his role in Universal Soldiers: The Next Generation will only be a cameo (insert sad face here) "Yeah, I’m doing a cameo. I sort of appear in the movie at a sort of seminal moment. And you know, John Hyams is directing this and his father, Peter Hyams is a director. His son is really good too, he wrote a nice little role, kind of a little cameo. It was fun to work with Jean-Claude Van Damme again, also another bizarre experience. It was slightly different than the first film, but still, seventeen years later, it was like, ‘Holy shit, it’s been that long!’ [Laughing]."
So great we get another Van Damme Universal Soldier flick, yes Jean-Claude Universal Soldier: The Return sucked! At least he is positive about The Expendables which is going to be awesome. Keep kickin' ass Dolph.
You love Clive Barker's Nightbreed don't you? Of course you do, I don't even know why I bothered asking and if you don't you are obviously in denial or dead and in that case you opinion doesn’t really matter now does it? Anyway I loved me some Nightbreed and word of 145 minute version of the film just gets me excited.
