Heard any really awful movie news lately? How ’bout this gem – Jean Claude Van Damme will be starring in a remake of The Great Escape. That’s flat-out egregious, even worse than Keanu as John Constantine. The Great Escape does NOT need to be remade, but if you’re going to do it anyway, the cast should look something like the one assembled for The Thin Red Line. And there should be no – I repeat no – Van Damage anywhere near the freaking picture. If they have Van Damme jumping the fences on his motorcycle, I expect the ghost of Steve McQueen will haunt him until the end of his days.
One thought on “The Cooler King meets the Muscles from Brussels.”
Comments are closed.
Back when it was my lot in life to work for Golan and Globus at Cannon Films, I remember an occasion when Van Damme came down to the Sound Department to “hang out.” He was wearing nothing but a white terrycloth bathrobe and a pair of flip-flops, and when he wasn’t engaging the various eyeball-rolling employees by thumping them on the back and saying “Hellooo budd-ee, how you doing, budd-eee?” he would spend the rest of his time standing in front of the mirrors in the lobby, admiring himself.
Oh yeah, great casting.