The Kickboxer remake in the works since last summer has been steadily building its cast of tough guys, including two veterans of hit Marvel films in Dave “Guardians Of The Galaxy” Bautista and Georges “Captain America: The Winter Soldier” St-Pierre. They’re about to be joined by** Ong-Bak** legend Tony Jaa and Zero Dark Thirty’s Scott Adkins.
Stuntman Alain Moussi has stepped up to lead this one, playing Kurt Sloan, a martial artist who heads to Thailand and learns the secrets of advanced kickboxing in order to avenge the death of his brother at the hands of the brutal Tong Po (Bautista). Jaa is set as Chow, the master who trains our hero, while Adkins will be his ill-fated brother.
Tai Chi Zero director Stephen Fung is overseeing the action both dramatic and in the ring in 3D, adapting the 1989 Jean-Claude Van Damme film.
Jaa will next be seen in F****ast & Furious 7 alongside Vin Diesel and the rest of the regular crew. Adkins, meanwhile, has been at work on Sacha Baron Cohen’s latest, action-comedy Grimsby, which finds Cohen as a thuggish football hooligan on the run with his secret agent brother (Mark Strong). The new Fast & Furious will be out on April 3, while Grimsby is targeting a July 31 release date. As for Kickboxer? There’s no date set yet, but we’d expect it sometime in 2015.