Because of Pyun’s declining health, as well as casting complications, the shoot date for City of Blood has been pushed back until the fall. Originally, the film had a planned production date on February 26th 2015.
From the words of Albert Pyun himself regarding the newly titled Kickboxer: City of Blood: ”Its the biggest action movie I’ve ever attempted. Bigger than Nemesis or Cyborg.” In addition, Mike Leeder is now co-producing an will be handling casting in Guangzhou, China, where the film starts shooting on January 2015. Mark Dacascos will probably play the main villain.
The Kickboxer cast looks like this (for now):
SASHA MITCHELL (Sloan)
KEVIN SORBO (Morgan)
TBD (Jenny)
MOHAMMED QUISSI (Said Ali)
DENNIS CHAN (Xian)
Dennis Chan is reprising his role as mentor, Xian Chow. Also, Michel Qissi, who played the original Tong Po in the series, will be appearing as a different character named Said Ali. Albert Pyun is going to make an offer to Mark Dacascos. Also he spoke with Michael Dudikoff’s agent and maybe we’ll reunite once more. So we’ll see how that goes.
It will not be a web series. The plan is too shoot 3 weeks in LA and 3 weeks in Nevada.
Albert Pyun announced plans to resurrect the Kickboxer brand via a 12 to 18 episode web series. Pyun says he’s been brainstorming with Sasha Mitchell about story possibilities, and the two have hopes of securing financing from foreign investors at Cannes.
Simply titled The Kickboxer, the web series would follow Sasha Mitchell’s character after he has retired to raise a family in the backwaters of Ecuador. When a member of a shady drug cartel recognizes Mitchell from his kickboxing past, all hell breaks loose. Now Sasha must fight to protect not only his honor but the ones he loves.
Do you really want to see Sasha Mitchell and Kickboxer’s series under Albert Pyun direction?
source: cityonfire