Tuesday, March 4, 2008

Van Damme approached for new Street Fighter

Surprisingly, since everything about it screams 'restart'!, Jean Claude Van Damme was approached to star in the new “Street Fighter” sequel – no doubt reprising his role as the heroic Guile.

Talking to MTV.ca, the former time-traveling law-enforcer says he knocked back an offer to join Kristin Kruek and Michael Clark Duncan in the new “Street Fighter”.

''I would have been well paid but I didn't want to do it. I've made enough money. I don't want to make a movie and then come home and be unhappy about it. Life is short. I'm 47 years old. I've got 10 years to go where I can be the best I can be. I want those 10 years to be precious, not like before, cranking two or three movies a year. I've made a ton of movies in my life, but so what? It's time for me to do things I like so I will be happy, my wife will be happy, my friends will be happy. I just want to do something I'm proud of. It's time for me to change. I could sign with a company for 10 movies and I'm the king of video and so what?'', Van Dammage, who currently appears in “The Shepherd : Border Patrol”, says.

Brett Ratner also offered Jean Claude a role – the villain role I assume? - in the latest “Rush Hour” movie but, says the actor, “if I do an action movie today I cannot walk through the streets and do karate moves. I would not believe it anymore. It's hard for me to say that. I cannot go and do three somersaults. I would feel like a monkey. So "Rush Hour," even though I would have been well paid, would have been difficult for me to accept

Source: MovieHole

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