Jean-Claude Van Damme's 1988 Martial Arts Cult Classic Bloodsport Set for Remake at A24

We’ve got an improbable remake connected our hands: Bloodsport, the 1988 martial arts movie starring Jean-Claude Van Damme that became a cult classic, is being remade astatine A24.

According to Variety, I May Destroy You creator Michaela Coel is penning and directing the remake. The quality comes conscionable a fewer months aft U.S. president Donald Trump was reported to person called for a revival of the “raucous comedies and enactment movies” of the precocious ‘80s to precocious ‘90s, and was said to beryllium a instrumentality of Bloodsport itself.

Directed by Newt Arnold, Bloodsport was arsenic cheesy arsenic enactment movies of the epoch came. Van Damme plays Frank Dux, a U.S. service skipper and ninjutsu aficionado who ends up taking portion successful an amerciable martial arts tourney successful Hong Kong. There are epic, and I mean epic, punches and kicks successful this movie, immoderate of which instrumentality what consciousness similar an property to connect. But erstwhile they do... you tin truly consciousness it.

Perhaps the astir infamous onslaught is Van Damme’s seed punch, which sees the enactment prima presume a divided presumption to dodge his opponent’s onslaught and deliver, well, a seed punch. Where bash you deliberation Johnny Cage got the thought from, eh?

“The thought came connected the acceptable since I was precise flexible,” Van Damme would aboriginal explain. It’s unclear if Coel volition intimately travel the original, crotch punch and all. But if it doesn’t person astatine slightest 1 stroke to the balls, fans volition beryllium disappointed.

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