Dolph Lundgren Comback?

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Dolph Lundgren is a former karate champion and model that hit it big in 80’s action movies. I actually like the guy in some stuff like Universal Soldier and as the crazy street preacher in Johnny Mnemonic.

Side note: Check out Showdown in Little Tokyo for a Dolph and Brandon Lee team-up.

So now Dolph with be starring and directing Command Performance, which is an action thriller he co-wrote.

Lundgren has spent the past few months in postproduction on his previous directing and acting vehicle, Sony’s “Missionary Man,” prepping it for a debut at next week’s AFI Dallas festival. He is coming off a starring turn in another Millennium/Nu Image actioner, “Direct Contact.”

Actually, I just had to point out here that The Hollywood Reporter must be confused. That Missionary Man is sitting on the shelf at my local Blockbuster and has been for the last 3+ weeks. I have no idea why it’s supposedly about to “debut.”

Lundgren describes “Command” as ” ‘Die Hard’ at a rock concert,” with the story focusing on a drummer for the warm-up band of a big American performer giving a concert for the Russian premier. Naturally, the bad guys break up the show. And just as naturally, the drummer is an ex-Marine.

“I got the idea from Madonna,” Lundgren said. “She did a concert for (Russian President Vladimir) Putin a few years ago.”

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Now that sounds like one incredible movie idea… not. Why did all action movies turn into “Die Hard in a ________” type movies?

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