Just when Dolph Lundgren appeared to be emerging from a DTV afterlife and making a name for himself on the big screen again (thanks to a role in his former sparring partner’s The Expendables), it may be a case of one step forward, two steps back for the Swedish giant.
Speaking to Screen Junkie, he’s revealed that he’ll be appearing in the next film from the heir to the Ed Wood throne, Uwe Boll. This project will be the sequel to the director’s 2007 feature In the Name of the King. This is what he had to say about it:
I play an ex-middle ages war veteran who gets f*cked up but he gets pulled into some sort of medieval power struggle, kind of gets a bit of a redemption for all his pains in service. Somebody just said he (Boll) is the evil genius of directing or something. I guess we’ll see.
Erm Dolph, you’ve clearly been misinformed, particularly in terms of the phrase “genius” which doesn’t equate to the director no matter what context it’s mentioned in. Having said that, Jason Statham played the lead in the original and it didn’t seem to harm his box office standing, so maybe Dolph will benefit from appearing in this after all.
It must be better than making yet another Universal Soldier sequel. No, wait…this could be on the cards too:
I don’t know yet. I haven’t seen the script. I know it’s all on IMDB and all that but no, I don’t know. Hopefully there’s a way to work that into my schedule.
