Because for years he would turn down roles if his character had to be defeated at the end. He couldn't say anything. I made a joke and it just took him out of it, snapped him out of it.Blake Harris: Laughter is the best medicine, right?Frank Dux: I took him out of it. Because we don't want our readers to be misinformed, Black Belt has a policy of strict verification of all facts pertaining to any article. I don't know if they ever approached Michael Dudikoff, but basically the producers were in a quandary as to who to cast. He frickin' landed on his head, in front of all my students. Because I think he's got a Walter Mitty syndrome. But I learned to conquer it, okay? However, speaking of the UFC, Frank Dux does have a tangential connection to the UFC. I said, "But I can see your view from here and how the world could look bleak." Plus, two cousins duke it out . Use promo code BONKERS for a free month. Told that the tournament was a secret, he said: "We would know. Especially when you believe that person is your friend.Frank Dux: Exactly. And he just laughed and said, "Come on, let me show you this house. Bloodsport is a 1988 American martial arts film directed by Newt Arnold, and starring Jean-Claude Van Damme, Donald Gibb, Leah Ayres, and Bolo Yeung. But the real contest was just punches to the chest, and Moore beat Lee like 4-2. Like M was Admiral Menzies. Rambo was always a reluctant badass.Sheldon Lettich: Yeah, you've really gotta push him to fight. And then he did a kick that missed his face by like two inches. So I started doing a Howard Cosell imitation and that's where I came up with the term Bloodsport. Then he said, "It's my movie too and I want what's best for the film! Or any agent's records? JCVD RE-EDITED THE MOVIE HIMSELF TO GET IT . So there would be one shot where you would see both brothers in the same shot, kind of talking to one another and then all the other shots were either close-ups or over-the-shoulders done with a double. And like I said, guys like Sheldon didn't help, putting a knife in my back.Blake Harris: So what was it like seeing him at the screening?Frank Dux: I was cordial. And the story there, which I've told many times, came from Frank telling me about his exploits. Millions of Americans were first introduced to Tiger Tanaka in the Ian Fleming novel. Only the part relating to the Kumite because he was going to hang on to the rest of his rights for the rest of his "exploits" for other movies. No, never. But Michael Dudikoff is like 6'2," and the problem was they wanted to film in Asia. I actually sent for and had custom uniforms made. You've gotta kidnap his friend. You spent almost four years in the U.S. Marine Corps, is that correct?Sheldon Lettich: Yeah, I served as a radio operator in South Vietnam and then later with 1st Force Reconnaissance Company based at Camp Pendleton, California.Blake Harris: So how did you go about making that enormous transition from wartime soldier to Hollywood writer?Sheldon Lettich: Well, surprisingly enough, my first success came in the theater. But I'm curious, getting back to what you were saying earlierand what to ultimately led to that story you describedat what point was the producer Mark DiSalle convinced that Jean-Claude would work? And we loved each other at that point.Blake Harris: So you guys were really closeFrank Dux: Yeah, this'll show you how close we were and tie back to what I was saying right before. This thing, it had legs, and started traveling around the world (London, Australia, etc. I wasn't a bitter person. But the only guy in the world who could kill Jean-Claude with his permission is Sylvester Stallone. Does that even look the same? He was friendly with me. I believe that story is 100% true, because Michel Qissi was with him and he told me the same story. We're not friends [anymore] and he does everything in his power to try and paint me as being a nutball or a kook because of it.Blake Harris: That's why I wanted to focus this piece on you, so you can tell the story in your own words.Frank Dux: So now you're starting to hear the real truth of the matter, you know what I mean? In honor of How Did This Get Made?'s #Bloodsport episode, we made this #supercut of Jean-Claude Van Damme's super #butt! "Blake Harris: So what eventually changed Menahem's mind? And then Hollywood got to him and he started showing signs of manic depression, you know?Blake Harris: In what way?Frank Dux: I'll never forget. At that point, it was to their advantage. He would punch the bricks, breaking them apart. Why not make a budd. You're craaaaaaazy." Poison! This regular featureis written byBlake J. Harris, who you might know as the writer ofthe bookConsole Wars, soon to be a motion pictureproduced bySeth RogenandEvan Goldberg. Either way, it's fair to say that filmgoers are a pretty forgiving lot. And they weren't returning phone calls. Mind you, he's alleging: You're gonna tell me a receipt floated around from 1980 to 1988? So any time you want to know who an agent is you can just go down there and file a request? The film finds the Suicide Squad going on a mission to the fictional country of Corto Maltese to carry out a mission to destroy a secret installation housing a secret weapon known as Project Starfish. And Leon was going to star in the movie, which we called The White House All Stars with the "White House" being a frat house at this college where all the football players lived. Jean-Claude?Frank Dux: When we started? I turned over the programs from the fights that we had in those days. He used Mike's own movements against him and dropped him. Nobody clapped or wanted to have their picture taken with you. They didn't back me up and they never said anything about seeing my fight footage.Blake Harris: I'm really sorry to hear that.Frank Dux: And one of the things that people don't realize is that after the Times article came out, people were so willing to convict me, just because it was the Times.Blake Harris: I just have one last question for you: since this whole thing grew, in a way, out of your friendship with Sheldon, I was wondering when was the last time that you spoke with him?Frank Dux: I saw Sheldon, believe it or not, about four weeks ago. What is he, a walking dictionary of a secret society? Ed Boon and John Tobias, the creators of legendary video game Mortal Kombat, were inspired in part by Bloodsport. I walked over there and he threw a playful kick at my head. Actually, I should back up. Dux believes this article was part of a smear campaign orchestrated by business competitors. Bloodsport (1988) Starring Jean-Claude Van Damme and Forest Whitaker based on experiences in the life of martial artist Frank W. Dux My involvement in that tournament was part of a plan, launched in 1975, to infiltrate the criminal organizations that organized the fights. And so he told Menahem, "Sell it to me and I'll release it theatrically." And the one twinning shot would sell it and it worked surprisingly well.Blake Harris: The next movie you worked on with Jean-Claude was his directorial debut, The Quest [1996], but only in the capacity of script polishing. So Leon and I go and pitch this to Menahem. This thingwhatever it was calledit was really cool and it would be a cool way to meet chicks.Blake Harris: And how did you go from passively enjoying these things to actual participating and learning how to fight?Frank Dux: I guess one of the things that helped push me in that direction was that I befriended a kid named Grant who had it far worse than myself. Very well known. It's incredible." So I just started calling it Bloodsport, and that was useful because this type of fighting, it had a different name depending on where you were. And interestingly enough, it was only after Jean-Claude did that to Sheldon that he testified on my behalf in the case for The Quest.Blake Harris: I understand. People would just assume that this is how it worked on those other two movies.Blake Harris: That makes sense.Sheldon Lettich: So I actually suggested to Jean-Claude that he use Frank Dux to write the script. ", How Did This Get Made:A Conversation With Sheldon Lettich, Screenwriter Of Bloodsport, How Did This Get Made: A Conversation with Frank Dux, the Real-Life Inspiration for Bloodsport. IMDb is the world's most popular and authoritative source for movie, TV and celebrity content. And we actually got hired by Motown to write this script! A college football comedy, of all things, that took place at a black college in Texas during the 60s.Blake Harris: I think that also earns "left field" status.Sheldon Lettich: [laughing] Maybe. The one thing that we did that made the film work so well is that we would do one "twinning shot" per scene. So I have all these memories of falling down stairs and crawling on my knees. I'm not kidding you. They were just being assholes.Blake Harris: That seemed to happen a lot at CannonSheldon Lettich: Now Blake, I have never filed a lawsuit against anyone in this business, but I filed a lawsuit against those guys, against Cannon. And we ended up settling. Yet with Bloodsport, this was not the case. Unlike so many of the testosterone-fueled films of the '80s, Bloodsport holds the rare distinction of being based on a true story. And he knows it. This is like 1979 and he wanted to put together some kind of theatrical piece about Vietnam veterans. It made its budget back just the first weekend on the west coast. Although there is no convenient way to verify each and every detail connected with this story, the editors have verified enough of the basic facts to feel confident in publishing it. More Like This Unspooled with Paul Scheer & Amy Nicholson Listen up, film fans! I told Jean-Claude I might be getting the rights back to Corsican Brothers so he got Moshe on board. Enjoy, and please share and subscribe! But when we found out Frank Dux was going to be there, we realized that this could go very, very bad, very quickly. But if they did Bloodsport, then they can do Timecop. We were calling it "Delayed Stress." Tiger Tanaka, right? Discovered by Player FM and our community copyright is owned by the publisher, not Player FM, and audio is streamed directly from their servers. Menahem still thought it was a piece of s***.Blake Harris: How come?Sheldon Lettich: Well, I think this might answer your question. I should also back up and say that I was really poor growing up. Mr. Dux and I met in Tegucigalpal, Honduras, in the summer of 1985, where I was being briefed by Dux and other intelligence operatives on military targets within Nicaragua. That's what really happened. So he was just trying to get me in trouble.Blake Harris: What, in your opinion, was his motive?Frank Dux: Well, the thing is, the article came out on the same day that a few of my business competitors are holding a seminar. LIVE from Largo in Los Angeles, Nicole Byer of Party Over Here joins Paul and Jason to discuss the cult 1988 Jean-Claude Van Damme martial-arts film Bloodsport. Kurt had played football at Prairie View College in the 60's. The truth. A lot of it was based on the recollections of my friend Kurt Taylor, who I wrote the script with. Well, she'd seen it on TV, but she was too sick when the movie came out. And they wouldn't show it to me. Anyways, they didn't pay me for doing my work on The Corsican Brothers and Delta Force 2. The Corsican Brothers. So you have to get everyone on the same page and agree to make this movie. In fact, Midway Games attempted to license Van Damme's image for the game. "But Sly," I said, "it really wouldn't work that way because one thing that's been established with Rambo is that he's the baddest motherf***er in the world, but he doesn't want to fight. Despite mixed reviews from critics, it was a considerable box office success, grossing $50 million on a budget of $1.5-2.3 million. And he said yeah. Back then, things were so different. Because he's riding on the coattails of Jean-Claude. But he had a great imagination, he had good ideas and he knew the martial arts world pretty well. Later on, after Sheldon and I got to talking, I gave it to Sheldon and we reshaped it.Blake Harris: And at what point did the script become called Bloodsport. So I climbed up on the ledge with him. I went into the offices of the L.A. Times with my attorney with the actual fight film footage. But yes, Idris Elba did an amazing job being the reluctant leader. And tears started to form in my eyes. I thought that was real interesting.Blake Harris: I imagine that at 11 years old that was a pretty inspiring experience.Frank Dux: Yeah and then three years later, I saw him again. In fact, we explored Post Traumatic Stress in the play, but the term PTSD had not even been coined yet. It's risk free with Nord's 30 day money-back guarantee! It's a tale so amazing that two months after the film's release, it was dismissed by the L.A. Times as nothing but a fabricated "macho fantasy." I wasn't an actor, but I was a writer, so I got in touch with John and we hit it off. He's a real talent when it comes to that. Over the centuries, however, these . Let's meet face to face. We liked the fact that we were able to do something different there. That picture with my hands crossed, you can see Bloodsport in the background. Dux said the military ordered his record sabotaged to discredit him. And so he says yeah, sure, give it a shot. During that time, he's never felt like he had a platform to defuse those lies and tell his side of the storyuntil now. He had a chance to read them. A secret martial arts contest? And it was painful. I had them cut down so it would fit him because I'm a bigger guy. Bloodsport Coming Soon to Fortnite - YouTube 0:00 / 1:00 Bloodsport Coming Soon to Fortnite Fortnite 11.5M subscribers 1.6M views 1 year ago #Bloodsport #Fortnite #FortniteBloodsport. KUMITE! So the play was groundbreaking in some ways. And that relationship led to other things down the road, as you know, but meanwhile my script Firebase was going around. We just became friends almost immediately. I gotta tell you: Seeing it years later, I didn't realize how good it was. He's not very good, of course, but the judo instructor steps in for Barney and then kicks the ass of the guy who's been picking on him. He used to tell everybody he was a ninja; I think he still maintains he was a ninja and took his training from this guy named Tanaka. The red one, the blue one, the black one. Not go into the past. Both of them wanted to be the cop.Blake Harris: That's so funny (though it makes sense).Sheldon Lettich: It just couldn't be worked out so the project fell by the wayside until they got Stallone and Wesley Snipes to be in it. So Frank put me on the phone with Jean-Claude and that was the first time I ever spoke to him. He taught at the Nakano spy school in Japan. Like with Legionnaire. I felt bad for him.Blake Harris: Actually, if you don't mind, I have one more question for you.Frank Dux: Sure.Blake Harris: We've spent all of this time talking about your life as a fighter and portrayals of your life as a fighter. Bloodsport (original trailer 720p en) Watch on Synopsis: U.S. Army Captain Frank Dux ( Jean-Claude Van Damme ), who had been trained as a boy by the legendary Ninjutsu master Senzo Tanaka,. All of this was prior to Bloodsport. And I said, "If you're gonna go, just don't pull me with you." "Blake Harris: Can I guess that the novel was The Last Rainbow [by Frank Dux]?Sheldon Lettich: Yup. I didn't see it coming. And then one day I get invited down to the Long Beach Invitationals. He was pure, he didn't do drugs. For me, martial arts is just a release. They'll cover Frank Dux being a real man, Van Damme's soft baby b. I think that's why people really love it. In the end, his psyche was broken when Jimmy Olsen brought his brother onto the scene. Give me a shot with him." And then all the Black Dragons got around methey were like the Hells Angels of the martial arts world at that timeand I didn't know what they were going to do. So he still didn't' have a lot of faith in Jean-Claude's acting abilities and decided not to make it. Over the show's decade-long run, they've covered a lot of. Synopsis:U.S. Army Captain Frank Dux (Jean-Claude Van Damme), who had been trained as a boy by the legendary Ninjutsu master Senzo Tanaka, decides to honor his mentor by taking the place of Tanaka's dead son in an illegal, no-holds-barred martial arts tournament called the "Kumite. But it was interesting because he's fighting Mike Stone and Mike Stone had reportedly 91 wins. [laughing] Those old 80s trailers, that's what they'd say over and over again. It was also seen by Viacom. And he turns to me and he says: "You know, Frankie, I signed a five-picture deal. Because you didn't do it in Hong Kong." Following his appearances in the two preceding sequels, Daniel Bernhardt returns in the new role of Agent John Keller, who goes into prison . As far as, like, the choreography for how fights go and stuff. Nobody clapped for Sheldon. He's in a documentary saying this. It was going to be a surprise appearance. Not looking to find myself embroiled in the middle of a he-said, she-said war of words, I happily agreed to this request. You had mentioned that you and Sheldon reshaped that original script. The 20 episodes of How Did This Get Made listed below offer a taste of the world that the hosts have built. And that's how I ended up co-writing Rambo III with him. So we pitched him Legionnaire, gave him the treatment and Ed went for it.Blake Harris: You mentioned that Columbia passed on Legionnaire because it didn't "stick with the Van Damme formula." In fact, Universal had some problems with what we did there because we did not want it to be a revenge movie. Qissi followed Van Damme to Los Angeles and found himself in a bit part in Bloodsport and eventually played the villain, Tong Po, in Kickboxer. In 1987's Superman #4, by John Byrne and Karl Kesel, Superman tried to stop Bloodsport's rampage through Metropolis. They were doing a showing of Bloodsport in a theater in my old home town and I just happened to be visiting. How are you going to get enough guys to fight against Michael who are even going to match his size? Oh man, he f***ing hated that movie. He saw the script. There were a number of people who really liked it. And I walked out on the ledge and I was waiting for him because I knew he wasn't going to come alone. AVianes. No Retreat No Surrender movie led to Van Damme getting the lead in Bloodsport (1988). It can't happen.". They did sequels and I've never gotten paid for them when I was supposed to. But Norris was the one, I think, who they declared as the winner. Today on Variant, we give you the comic book. That was invented, right then and there. I was there at every meeting and, of course, they were getting all the ideas out of me. He didn't know what to think. Dux's trophy from the Bahamas event was at least partially made in the San Fernando Valley. It worked great. And it's interesting because they hide that, you know? I always try to look for the best in people. I literally wrote a good majority of that script with Sheldon, but I never got credit for it. One of these covert operatives was one Frank Dux. He's also said it under oath by the way and identified me. Plus the guy was just an idol of mine. She'd never seen it. Are you kidding me? You can't just go in there and get it. Those were my uniforms. And that's pretty much what Double Impact isBlake Harris: I read online that you might be writing a sequel to Double Impact? Or was the movie developed in a totally different way?Frank Dux: Well I'll tell you what happened. And everybody had their picture taken with me, and I don't recall anyone having their picture taken with Sheldon, outside of his friends. 2. level 2. And just a few more questions. Leon hired me to write a script, which Menahem ended up liking. And so yeah. And so we climbed back over the wall and onto the set. And if somebody tells me they were in Vietnam, and in the Marine Corps, I'll believe them. I'd been writing screenplays and thinking about films, but what happened was an actor friend mine was reading Drama-Logue and saw an ad from this guy John Di Fusco looking for actors who were also Vietnam veterans. I met this guy Sheldon Lettich, who had done a play called Tracers and we became friends. And the CIA and everyone is obligated to tell you? KUMITE! Menahem started to realize what he had with Jean-Claudeand remember, he had two more movies with himso he called us into his office and said, "We need to find our next movie for Jean-Claude." Actor & comedian Paul Scheer and film critic Amy Nicholson want your advice as they make the ultimate list of the greatest movies . To my face he's pretending to be my best buddy, but behind my back he's doing everything in his power to undermine me in my career and take credit for my work.Blake Harris: I'm really sorry to hear that.Frank Dux: And that's a typical Hollywood story, right? I didn't understand. My very first fight in Tijuana, they were fighting six of us, and there were only five us there; we were waiting for another guy. A lot of those shots came from the camera angles I had been directing. It's hard to call the young Van Damme's performance "good" in any traditional sense of the word, but . And he did. 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