Steven Seagal Meets with Costa Rica President

[suziwong]

From Costa Rica Pages

Steven Seagal, the famous action movie hero, has found his way down to Costa Rica with his wife and daughter and will be meeting with Costa Rican President Oscar Arias today at 2:30 p.m. The actor arrived yesterday to the Juan Santamaria Airport in San Jose and said he is interested in creating a small movie production company in the country and would like to discuss options with the country’s leaders. His visit seems to mimic the goal’s that Mel Gibson had several years ago before deciding to build a multi-million dollar property in Guanacaste.


Seagal, who is known for performing his own fight scenes with a black belt in martial arts, will be staying at the Real Intercontinental in Escazu, San Jose during the business portion of his trip, but it is uncertain if he will continue on to visit other sites and the Costa Rica beaches.

Other celebrity figures that visited Costa Rica in the past year include Britany Spears, Bill Gates, Mel Gibson, Michael Schumacher of the race car fame and Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich. Rumors also suggest that Gisele Bundchen and Tom Brady are considering having their wedding in Costa Rica, where Gisele already has a beach property.

 

[suziwong]

Another News:

Steven Seagal is vacationing in Costa Rica for 3 Weeks. Rumor has it that the Movie Star will be staying in the Central Pacific region and taking advantage of Costa Rica's perfect coastal weather, and incredible beaches.

Steven Seagal is an accomplished actor, musician, martial artist, and philanthropist. Steven brings an unparalleled talent and passion for the arts. His accomplishments in Martial Arts and the spiritual teachings of Zen and Japanese culture are big part of Steven's character and is an integral part of his movies, and his music.

 

[sugust]

Thank you Suzi

Gabe

 

[lutje]

Thank you my friend this is realy great and fantastic from you
for thinking on all the fans here.
Steven Seagal need that he works very hard all the year and my lovely actor
need rest and now he makes time for three weeks whit his famely and that is
perfeckt from him and he loves is women and his children Steven is a very great man
and i love him so mutch he is a very good lovely man and he think on is fans to.
Thank you very very much you are fantastic and great to.
THANK YOU SUZYWONG.
Lutje.

 

[ORANGATUANG]

Thanks Suzi...

 

[Anneliese]

Thanks Suzi for the news!!

 

[suziwong]

Seagal wants to bring Hollywood to Costa Rica

SAN JOSE, Costa Rica (Reuters) - Action movie star Steven Seagal told Costa Rican President Oscar Arias on Wednesday he wants to help the Central American country build a filmmaking industry to put its dramatic landscapes to use.

Seagal, known for his martial arts roles of the 1980s and '90s, met Arias in San Jose and offered to use his Hollywood connections to help Costa Rica get started in movie-making.

"Costa Rica has everything -- both rain forest and dry climate. What it lacks is an infrastructure to make movies," Seagal told a news conference.

Seagal said he had a positive conversation with Arias but did not elaborate on the size of any investment he planned or give a timeframe for his project.

Apart from a handful of small-budget independent producers, Central America's film industry is almost nonexistent.

Despite its reputation as a stable, relatively crime-free country with lush and varied landscapes, Costa Rica is rarely used by U.S. filmmakers, who often opt to shoot in Canada.

Costa Rica was the backdrop, however, for the 1992 film "1492: Conquest of Paradise," starring Gerard Depardieu, about the arrival of Christopher Columbus in the Americas.

Actor and director Mel Gibson, who has a vacation home on Costa Rica's Pacific coast, had his production team scout the country's jungles for his 2006 epic "Apocalypto" about the decline of the Mayan civilization, but ended up shooting it in more-accessible Mexico.

(Reporting by John McPhaul; editing by Todd Eastham)

Photos:

actor Steven Seagal (L) meets with Costa Rican President, Oscar Arias, on February 11, 2009, at the presidential residence in San Jose to talk about the possibility of real estate and film industry investments in Costa Rica.

 

[ORANGATUANG]

Thanks Suzi...

 

[roycck]

Thanks for the news

 

[lutje]

Thank you very much Suzy for your information.
You are very great and this is very nice from you.
Lutje.

 

[jhogan]

...Seagal, who is known for performing his own fight scenes ....

He obviously hasn't seen Seagal's latest straight-to-DVD movies...

 

[bellyofb]

He obviously hasn't seen Seagal's latest straight-to-DVD movies...

that was also my first thought...

 

[stevenseagalfan.]

Thanks for the info and pic love tham all!!!

 

[Irishgirl]

Thank you so much for the update.

 

[suziwong]

more photos I liked !!

 

[stevenseagalfan.]

Dear Suzi,
Do you have more!!!! please post them here.

 

[suziwong]

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[Chrissy]

Hello everyone,
Thanks for the new information.Which woman and which daughter?I thought they are no more couple.Or does he have new family?
Yours sincerely of Chrissy

 

[Domi]

Thanks very much Suzi news and nice photos

 

[suziwong]

Mss Arisa Wolf and their daughter Savannah I guess !!

Hello everyone,
Thanks for the new information.Which woman and which daughter?I thought they are no more couple.Or does he have new family?
Yours sincerely of Chrissy