A glimpse of what could have been

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gunslinger

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Hi everyone, not sure if anyone will be interested in this or if this has already been posted somewhere but in the late 90's I used to collect this action movie magazine called Impact. They had a regular feature called The Seagal Report. The following is one of the past columns from 1998.

ARTICLE:

Steven Seagal's new independent production company has acquired the rights to two novels, with a view to developing them as action movie scripts. "White Star" is the story of a New York attorney whose family is stalked by a sniper he first encountered in Vietnam.

"House of Thunder" revolves around a former jungle fighter who embarks on an adventure along side an American Indian shaman.

taken from Impact Magazine.

Steven was developing these films while developing "Blood on the Moon", "Smash and Grab", "Black Top" and "Ghengis Khan".

What a shame some of them didn't get made because the two novels he bought sound very intersesting. I'm going to try and track them down.
 
Lotussan

Lotussan

I Belong To Steven
Thanks Gunslinger...Very interesting...I am sure there were very good reasons that these movies did not get made...They must be talking about Steamroller Productions, and not Luminocity...I am sure he and Nasso were at odds by this time, perhaps they were, anyway...Thanks for sharing this with us, I don't remember it ever being posted here before...
 
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Serena

Administrator
I think both novels sound like they had the potential to be made into pretty decent movies. Thanks, Gunslinger. It would be interesting to know the real reasons--not speculation or rumors-why these never made it to the big screen (or even STV); his own change of mind, lack of financial backing, etc.

Do you have access to any more of the Seagal Report columns that you could post here, Gunslinger? This one was quite interesting and I for one would enjoy reading others.
 
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gunslinger

Member
Serena,

I got one other, I stopped buying the magazine because the Australian importer was missing issues when they released them over here, example: I got June, July, October, December, etc, etc, and unfortunately the Seagal Report was only put into play in the later issues of my collection.

HOWEVER!!!

I do have one that has the promotional poster for the unfilmed "Blood on the Moon" The headline reads something like:

'In 1999 a man and his family on vacation are viciously attacked by modern day pirates...now the lone survivor is out for revenge.'

Sounds cool, a shame it never happened. Right now I'm working on scanning the artwork and putting it on the site so stay tuned!

This film, along with the others that were mentioned, were all part of Seagal-Nasso Productions so when the blow up happened I guess the projects went with it.

As TD pointed out it's a shame out of all the material on hand he picked Khan but I guess it's close to his heart.
 
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