Bloodsport Part Deaux

It seems that Jean Claude Van Damme is going to try to use the bit of momentum he got from his movie JCVD to make a true sequel to his first film and the movie that put him on the map, Bloodsport. Although it is obviously a terrible idea, I'm pretty pumped because I love Bloodsport. It's right on up there with Kickboxer and Time Cop. Although the original Kickboxer has already had three sequels, Jean Claude was attached to none of them.

According to Van Damme himself, he wants to do Kickboxer 2, "in a very mature way, where the guy from Bloodsport is a complete bum, maybe abusing his son." Sounds pretty uplifting if you ask me. Imagine being beaten by your father who's like this jacked martial-arts guy. That would suck real bad.

Although Van Damme is gung ho about the movie, it seems he is being met with some resistance by his studio. According to Van Damme, they told him, "No, no, no! You cannot make a movie in America where a father is abusing his son physically! It’s wrong." Yeah, that probably happened. Cause there has never been a movie made about an abusive father before, (see Radio Flyer, American Beauty, as proof. I actually couldn't think of any other good ones so maybe there aren't many after all.) I think the more likely situation is that the studio didn't want Van Damme to make a movie starring himself as an abusive father (No offense Jean Claude, I don't think you have that range.)

Note: The article I read this news from also stated that Van Damme turned down a role in Sylvester Stallone's The Expendables, making him the number one douche of all time. That movie is going to be fantastic, and it would have been that much better with Van Damme. Imagine Van Damme, Mickey Rourke, Jason Statham, Jet Li, Dolph Lundren, and Randy Couture all in the same movie? It blows my mind just to think about such a cast, and for that to have been so close to happening is unbearably painful. You broke my heart yet again Jean Claude.