A24, the production and distribution company behind the Oscar winning film Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022), is currently in negotiations to acquire the remake rights to Jean-Claude Van Damme’s 1988 martial arts classic Bloodsport.
Back in 2011, director Phillip Noyce (Dead Calm) was attached to lead a reimagining of the classic, working from a script by The Karate Kid creator Robert Mark Kamen. By 2013, James McTeigue (V for Vendetta) stepped in to replace Noyce, but the film still failed to enter production.
Rumors resurfaced in 2019, suggesting that John Wick directors David Leitch and Chad Stahelski were eyeing a remake, though nothing materialized. Now, with A24 in the mix, it looks like a remake of Bloodsport will finally come to fruition.
The original film follows U.S. soldier Frank Dux as he went to Hong Kong to be accepted into the Kumite, a highly secret and extremely violent martial-arts competition. While trying to gain access into the underground world of clandestine fighters, he also has to avoid military officers who consider him to be AWOL. After enduring a difficult training and beginning a romance with journalist Janice Kent, Frank is given the opportunity to fight. But can he survive?
Stay tuned.
SOURCE: The InSnieder
