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In August 2016, Georges St-Pierre described fighting Van Damme in the film Kickboxer: Vengeance as "a dream come true". [146] The original video game Mortal Kombat (1992) was conceived as a fighting game based on Van Damme. [147] Creators Ed Boon and John Tobias had originally wanted to star Van Damme himself in the game.
Kickboxer is a 1989 American martial arts film directed by David Worth and starring Jean-Claude Van Damme.Former world kickboxing champion Dennis Alexio is also featured. The plot revolves around Kurt Sloane (Van Damme) seeking revenge on the fearsome kickboxing champion Tong Po (Michel Qissi) who paralyzed his brother Eric Sloane (Dennis Alexio).
Austin Trunick of Under the Radar said Van Damme's scenes "are prime Van Damme, at least, with some fantastic fight choreography and a full showcase of splits, high-kicks, and bug-eyed snarling". [22] The film was riffed live at a number of venues on the Mystery Science Theater 3000 Live: The Great Cheesy Movie Tour, by Joel Hodgson, in 2019.
Released in theaters 35 years ago, on Feb. 26, 1988, Bloodsport starred Van Damme as Frank Dux, a U.S. Army soldier who leaves the military to enter a fight-to-the-death martial arts tournament in ...
Kickboxer: Vengeance is a 2016 American martial arts film directed by John Stockwell, and starring Dave Bautista, Alain Moussi, Gina Carano, Georges St-Pierre, and Jean-Claude Van Damme. It is the sixth film in the Kickboxer franchise and also serves as a reboot. The film has a similar premise as the first film in the franchise.
Six Bullets [3] [4] is a 2012 American action film directed by Ernie Barbarash, produced by Brad Krevoy and starring Jean-Claude Van Damme, Joe Flanigan, Anna-Louise Plowman, and Charlotte Beaumont. [5] The film was released on direct-to-video in the United States on September 11, 2012.
Bloodsport was an inspiration for the video game Mortal Kombat, [34] and Johnny Cage, one of the characters, is a parody of Jean-Claude Van Damme. [35] Van-Damme himself later voiced a Johnny Cage character based on his likeness in Mortal Kombat 1. [36]
Kickboxer 2 (stylized on-screen as Kickboxer 2: The Road Back) is a 1991 American martial arts film directed by Albert Pyun and written by David S. Goyer.The film is the second entry into the Kickboxer film series, and stars Sasha Mitchell in the role of David Sloan (unlike Sloane in the first film), the brother of Kickboxer ' s lead character Kurt, portrayed by Jean-Claude Van Damme.