The long-awaited (at least by me) Kickboxer remake, Kickboxer: Vengeance, just debuted at the Fantasia Film Festival. To mark the occasion, there’s a brand new trailer to keep us occupied until the movie arrives on August 19. Watch it for yourself after the jump.
We haven’t even had the opportunity to lay eyes upon
Kickboxer: Vengeance (fingers crossed for sometime this
year, which seems reasonable considering it’s about to debut at the Fantasia
Film Festival), but we’ve got even more of the rebooted
Kickboxer franchise on the way. To celebrate the Fourth of
July, none other than Jean-Claude Van Damme gave us a taste of what’s to come
by releasing a video of himself signing a contract for the sequel,
Kickboxer: Retaliation. Check it out below.
It took a lot of effort, but I’ve finally moved beyond my
initial shock and outrage that there is a Kickboxer remake
on the way and just accepted that Kickboxer Vengeance is
probably going to be a movie that I’ll be super into. Still a ways off, we’ve
now got our first look at footage, and I have to admit, I’m totally down.
If the idea Kickboxer: Vengeance, a
reboot of Jean-Claude Van Damme’s 1989 classic Kickboxer,
simply one of greatest movies ever made, sounds like blasphemy, I think we’ll
get along just fine. Still, it’s happening whether we like it or not, and we’ve
got some new looks at the cast.
