Action star Jean-Claude van Damme experienced a surprising revival with JCVD from 2008, the momentum of which he was for a Own film project with personal meaning wanted to exploit. So he started his first directorial work since The Quest and turned an actioner written by him in his own production with himself in the leading role.
The film currently has its original title again The Eagle PathIn the meantime, however, it was also called Full Love, Soldiers and Frenchy. However, a rental still does not seem to have merciless.
Jean-Claude van Dammes Action Disaster, which is not finished and does not find a buyer
The Eagle Path is about a former mercenary named Frenchy (Van Damme), who works traumatized by his past as a taxi driver in East Asia. When he wants to protect a woman from contracting killers, he drums a team of specialists together-but then it becomes unconventional for an action thriller.
As early as 2010, The Wrap reported on the catastrophic screening of the film in Cannes, where van Damme personally the outcome is said to have blockedso that nobody can escape their Magnum Opus. However, he didn’t find a distributor. Fantastic festival director Tim League told the magazine: “It could be the greatest embarrassment of his career. Especially when he had given you hope with JCVD.”
In the past, Van Damme had more into disrepute due to questionable behavior on the set, which at the time went back to serious addiction problems.
Van Damme’s heart project with obstacles
Surprisingly, van Damme Stanley Kubrick’s long -time cameraman Douglas Milsome was able to win for his film project, but with whom he screamed while filming. According to screening participants, the action strip should end with an ambitious sequence that of 2001: Odyssey in space remindedafter the usual Karacho action on an environmental message about love, life and the end of the world. A creative step with which nobody except van Damme himself agreed.
15 years and Several subsequent shooting As well as the renaming later, The Eagle Path has still not been published. The official Rodin Entertainment website still says “soon”, but that has been the case in various forms since 2010.
Look here the trailer for The Eagle Path:
The Eagle Path – Trailer (English) HD
The cursed film project for the action star of the 80s and 90s is even more personal by participating in his two children Kristopher Van Varenberg and Bianca Bree, both of whom were involved in the cast. Let’s hope that the film will come out before you reach today’s age of your ambitious father. Then we will finally find out whether it is the great masterpiece of a former action icon, or a pretentious ego trip disaster such as The Room or finally megalopolis.