Soldiering On

Despite being better known for his drugs habits and hopeless flirting technique than his acting of late, the not-so-hard-Muscles from Brussels, Jean-Claude Van Damme, is set to start work on a sequel to his 1992 flick Universal Soldier. Shooting on the tentatively dubbed Universal Soldier II, begins in Dallas next month. This time round, the supercomputer controlling the soldiers goes on the blink, and the reanimated Van Damme, now a technical expert working on the project, must stop the elite team of killers. This big screen sequel to Universal Soldier is scheduled for an August 1999 release.