Forgotten For A Reason! Steven Seagal, Ice-T, Dennis Hopper, Tom Sizemore, Nas, Jaime Pressly and TLC's Chilli In Albert Pyun's TICKER!

Todd Brown, Founder and Editor
Gotta love a man with a sense of humor.

Back in 2001 Albert Pyun assembled one of the stranger casts ever and attempted to shoot an action movie with them in just eleven days.  In the cast? Steven Seagal, Tom Sizemore, Dennis Hopper, Ice-T, Nas, Jaime Pressly and Chilli from TLC. The movie itself was called Ticker and was immediately relegated to the bargain bin.

Most directors would bury any material related to a film like this and hope nobody noticed. But not Pyun. While digging through his archives while preparing the crazy special issues of his films - the recently released Bulletface spanned five discs - Pyun came across a behind the scenes reel from the shoot and offered it up for public viewing here at Twitch.

Oh ... and that poster to the left?  Not Ticker. That's new character art for Pyun's upcoming Tales of an Ancient Empire featuring his Bulletface and Left For Dead star Victoria Maurette as a vampire assassin. In Pyun's own words, his hope is that this Sword and the Sorcerer sequel will complete his penance for having created Ticker.
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  • Albert Pyun

    Hey Confusos,

    I think Todd was saying we wished we could bury it. I know I tried. I had a bad flu when we were shooting and you know the shoot is bizarre when you have Mr. Seagal spoon feeding you herbal medicine. The stories I could tell you from that shoot. On the plus side, we really did try to make something decent but a week out from the first day of shooting our budget got cut in half. I told the powers with the purse strings that they would be seriously damaging the film -- like causing us to eliminate all the action sequences. They shrugged. Such is the pain of indy filmmaking. The film ended up the second most profitable in Artisan's history after Blair Witch. (sigh) There's just no justice in the film business.

    Albert

    www.albertpyunmovies.com

  • Buried? This was released here in spain 6 or 7 years ago straight to DVD. The film is actually quite funny.

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