The Muscle tissues From Brussels has formally booked his first function with Netflix. Jean-Claude Van Damme has began capturing The Final Mercenary, David Charhon’s action-comedy additionally starring Alban Ivanov, Assa Sylla, Samir Decazza, Patrick Timsit, Eric Judor and Miou-Miou.
Being shot in France, the movie sees Van Damme performs a mysterious former secret service agent who should urgently return to the nation when his estranged son (Decazza) is falsely accused of arms and drug trafficking by the federal government, following a blunder by an overzealous bureaucrat (Ivanov) and a mafia operation.
“The Final Mercenary is an extremely thrilling mission and permits me to tackle a brand new style,” stated Van Damme. “I’ve all the time been a fan of Jean-Paul Belmondo and I hope to take up the torch of action comedy in my very own method. David Charhon’s script brings all these components collectively in a really profitable method – a wonderful story with emotion, numerous action and numerous humour.”
Added the action star: “I’m additionally very completely satisfied to work alongside a brand new era of expertise corresponding to Alban Ivanov, Assa Sylla and Samir Decazza, but in addition to be reunited on display with the creme de la creme of French actors corresponding to Patrick Timsit, Eric Judor, Miou-Miou and Valérie Kaprisky.”
The Final Mercenary was written by Charhon and Ismaël Sy Savané and produced by Jean-Charles Levy, Nicolas Manuel (Forecast Photos), Olivier Albou, Laurence Schonberg (Different Angle Photos), David Charhon, Jakéma Charhon, Eponine Maillet (Mony Movies), Olias Barco, Vlad Riashyn (Apple Tree).
“I need to return to the nice custom of action movies of the ’80s and ’90s — these cult movies all of us love the place the heroes have been out of the peculiar, the stunts have been all extra spectacular and more true than life, and all punctuated with humour. Solely Jean-Claude might embody this unparalleled golden age of cinema,” stated Charhon.
Gaëlle Mareschi, inventive supervisor at Netflix France stated: “We’re very excited to welcome the nice legend of action cinema, JCVD, in tandem with the inexorable Alban Ivanov, surrounded by a myriad of nice French expertise, all in a particularly enjoyable and authentic movie proposition orchestrated by David Charhon.”
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