Exclusive: In a hot package for EFM buyers this weekend, Jean-Claude Van Damme will star in What’s My Name? Directed by Jeremy Zag, the film will be produced by Cross Creek’s Tyler Thompson alongside Asko Akopyan, Zag and Van Damme. Executive Producer is John Soibatian. Cross Creek is fully financing a film that will reunite the fighting icon in matches against some of his past screen rivals.
Van Damme tells Deadline that What’s My Name? will dip into his cinematic and personal life — as did the 2008 film Jcvd — and that it will bring to an end his long career as an action film fighter. Oscar-winning Green Book scribe Nick Vallelonga and Paul Sloan (Stilleto) wrote the script, based on a story by Van Damme. Wild Bunch International is handling foreign sales, and CAA Media Finance is representing the film’s domestic distribution rights.
In the film, Van Damme will play himself.
Van Damme tells Deadline that What’s My Name? will dip into his cinematic and personal life — as did the 2008 film Jcvd — and that it will bring to an end his long career as an action film fighter. Oscar-winning Green Book scribe Nick Vallelonga and Paul Sloan (Stilleto) wrote the script, based on a story by Van Damme. Wild Bunch International is handling foreign sales, and CAA Media Finance is representing the film’s domestic distribution rights.
In the film, Van Damme will play himself.
- 2/11/2022
- by Mike Fleming Jr
- Deadline Film + TV
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