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Michael Biehn Making Directorial Debut With THE BLOOD BOND

by Todd Brown, October 1, 2009 2:24 PM


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Veteran actor Michael Biehn is heading to Asia to make his directorial debut with The Blood Bond, a film that will reunite him with Dragon Squad producer Bey Logan.  As you'd expect with Logan involved The Blood Bond will have a healthy martial arts component, that end of things being handled by action director Fan Siu-Wong (Riki-Oh himself!) with first time feature actress and taekwondo black belt Zhang Lan-xin backing up Fan's choreography with some legitimate skill. Biehn will star as well as direct with Johnnie To veteran Simon Yam and rising actress Phoenix Chou playing opposite.  The story?  Here it is:

A world-renowned spiritual leader, Bagawans Muktananda, arrives in the Asian nation of Bandanesia to give a teaching to the faithful. Accompanying him is a retinue of monks and attendants, including his personal bodyguard, Deva (Phoenix Chou), a beautiful Eurasian girl with extraordinary physical prowess.

Welcoming Bagawans is security commander Chow (Simon Yam). As soon as Bagawans and his party reach their hotel, they are attacked by assassins from a rebel terrorist group.

Wounded, Bagawans needs to undergo a life-saving operation within 12 hours. However, his blood type is so rare that only a few donors can be found who can reach the capital in time to help. Rebel leader Lompoc obtains the same information, and has his agents kill off the donors one-by-one.

Deva gets information about a possible 7th donor in a remote village in the North, and she decides to brave the dangerous journey alone into the guerilla-held badlands. There, she finds the last possible donor whose blood can save Bagawans: a drunken, embittered former Special Forces operative named Mike Tremayne (Michael Biehn).

The Blood Bond goes in to production later this month.

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by Rhythm-X, October 1, 2009 4:36 PM

Is this a Weinstein Company production?

(And does this mean that Dragon Dynasty has now gone from half-assed to quarter-assed? I'm going to have to start working on an bitter and hateful epitaph for them.)

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by dac1138, October 1, 2009 5:41 PM

Isn't that an identical plot to Wong Jing's "The Last Blood" aka "Hard Boiled 2"?

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by quadshock, October 1, 2009 8:14 PM

It was originally a remake, but I think they realized that the script was different enough from the original that they could consider it it's own movie. I think they got an agreement from Wong Jing too... anyway at least there won't be any sort of legal issue.

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Gozan replied to comment from quadshock, October 5, 2009 9:35 AM

I guess even Wong Jing couldn't deal with the massive irony of having Wong Jing accusing someone of ripping him off!

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by agent666, October 1, 2009 8:45 PM

Good to see Michael Biehn kicking ass!

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by Ard Vijn, October 2, 2009 4:48 AM

Michael Biehn is surrounded by plenty of interesting people in this production, both before and behind the camera. I will keep an eye on this.

Might be good, might be bad, might be the surprise of the year. Biehn has been in plenty of awful movies but I never felt that he was the one sinking them...

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by Rhythm-X, October 2, 2009 2:34 PM

To kinda-answer my own initial post...

A: Not a TWC production, but they have distribution rights to it.

B: Bey Logan's out of TWC and setting up shop as an independent producer - his Weinstein contract is up as of yesterday and is not getting renewed. TWC's Hong Kong office: closed. TWC is now down to under 100 employees and counting.

C: Logan remains an non-contracted "acquisitions consultant" for TWC and his new production company may somehow be involved with producing remakes for them. This part's rather ominous.

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by Rhythm-X, October 2, 2009 2:35 PM

That's all from the Hollywood Reporter, BTW...

http://tinyurl.com/yewssqv

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