Update: August 8, 2016
Christopher Lambert Joins Jean-Claude Van Damme in KICKBOXER: RETALIATION
Christopher Lambert has joined the cast of
Kickboxer: Retaliation. Lambert’s casting teams him with Jean-Claude Van Damme to meld two of the great genre movies
Highlander and
Kickboxer, movies that motivate audiences years after their initial box office releases.
Kickboxer: Retaliation is the second installment in a trilogy reboot of 1989’s hit action film
Kickboxer.
Kickboxer: Retaliation picks up where Kickboxer: Vengeance leaves off with Kurt Sloan, Alain Moussi continuing as the lead character, in Thailand fending for his life against a new formidable foe, Mongkut, portrayed by Hafþór Júlíus Björnsson (
Game of Thrones).
Lambert will portray Thomas Moore, a wealthy ex pat, who in his youth was a consummate martial artist and is currently the Godfather of Underground fighting in Thailand. He’s a purist that believes Muay Thai fighters who fight to the death are warriors. A master-manipulator, he has influence everywhere and of course with the use of his money, he is able to imprison Kurt Sloan in order to make him fight a monster. Moore does not accept the word “No.” With a state of the art scientist, using HGH, steroids and other concoctions, in his own lab, Moore has created Mongkut, 6′ 9″ and over 400 hundred pounds of Muay Thai destruction, Moore wants to use Sloan’s fame as world champion to advance his man by pitting the two champions, “David Vs Goliath,’ against each other in the ring.
Dimitri Logothetis, who owns the rights to the
Kickboxer franchise and wrote and produced
Kickboxer: Vengeance, serves as writer and director on
Retaliation.
Kickboxer: Retaliation is currently filming principal photography on location in Thailand with additional filming taking place in California and Nevada.
The first film in the trilogy,
Kickboxer: Vengeance stars Van Damme, Moussi, Dave Bautista and Gina Carano and hits theaters and VOD on September 2, 2016.
Christopher Lambert Joins Jean-Claude Van Damme and Paige Van Sant in 'Kickboxer: Retaliation