Another new Seagal movie!

DiDa

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Good news!

Last weekend I have been in contact with Keoni Waxman again. He told me that he will be shooting another Seagal movie very soon (the beginning of 2014). Probably in Romania again, but that's not for sure!

And .....I am working on something with Mr. Waxman to visit the set of that movie so I can do a set-report for this website!

More details will follow!
 

rastafari

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I was seagal would try another director...nothing against Waxman who i think is a pretty good DTV director but its all becoming the same

Also I hate films that are shot in Romania so i hope he has a change of heart and films back in Vancouver
 

DiDa

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I know what you mean, but I think we should be happy with Waxman. In the past Steven has had a lot of problems with director's and producers leading to incoherent story lines, bad body doubles. Seagal and Waxman (including crew) are getting along very well and that is what motivating Seagal. I agree about the fact that a lot of stuff looks the same. That's why I am happy we get to see some other locations then Vancouver. I am sure Waxman will Romania look good!

Right now I am happy that Steven is making movies again. He left Ex3 behind, so should we. Van Damme is doing nothing right now. His fans are getting pissed because he is just partying and trying to start some stupid TV projects. We were pissed about Steven not being in EX3, but at least he is making movies and with Waxman and his crew he is in good hands.
 

rastafari

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The thing I dont like about Romania is that the crews and more importent the support co stars are not always great quality

in Vancouver you have crews that have worked on massive movies that are filmed in Canada but also the cast Members are also decent...look at BTRH which apart from Seagal and Shavlevi had a pretty poor cast

I agree about Waxman he is a pretty decent DTV director but i watched the fights on FOE and the same problems are they as with all Waxmans Seagal films.....fights filmed too close/edited badly/lack of aikedo

In BTRH Lauro filmed the fights far better infact BTRH had seagals best fight scenes since PW

that said what i saw of FOE it looked very well made and it looked like it had alot more of a story than MC
 

Mason

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I wish Waxman would put togheter a really big budget and make the ultimate dtv action movie with Seagal, instead of making two movies a year. I'm sure Waxman would love that, but something must be holding him back.
 

rastafari

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he does not have the power to make such a film

to make a 15M plus action film with a few well known c0-stars would mean he would need backing from somewhere else Voltage dont back seagals movies with money they are just the selling agent

the best budget seagal had in recent years was when he was at millenium and he had around 15M-20M for films like MFJ-OFAK-BOTB
 

DiDa

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Waxman told me he is working with his own Canadian / US crew. Of course there are also some Romanian crewmembers....
 

DiDa

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I wish Waxman would put togheter a really big budget and make the ultimate dtv action movie with Seagal, instead of making two movies a year. I'm sure Waxman would love that, but something must be holding him back.

Of course he would love to. But he has no power for that. He is just working for the studio (Voltage and producers). They say: "Hi Mr. Waxman, here is 10 million budget. You have 3 weeks. Good Luck." This was also the case with Seagal's bad movies like Attack Force, Flight Of Fury, Kill Switch. Some director's didn't make it to shoot everything in 3 weeks. After that the producers come in and add in some stock footage or change the story and shoot some new footage with body doubles. It's not always the fault of Seagal. Also Seagal is not happy with this. That's why he had a lot of problems on the set of Black Dawn for example and there was a lawsuit surrounding Mercenary For Justice. Waxman and crew know how to work and know how to work with Seagal to get a decent film.
 

rastafari

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Waxman told me he is working with his own Canadian / US crew. Of course there are also some Romanian crewmembers....

Yes some of Waxmans team DOP/Editor/Stunt guys are with him but im talking more about the co-stars who litter seagals terrible films like in FOF/BTRH/SM/AF etc who are either bad romanian actors or Soap stars from uk tv shows like eastenders...i understand why that is because its easier to fly people over from the UK than from the US but i still dont like it as its makes the films look cheap IMO

I also get the idea that AGM was to be filmed in Canada at first because both Victor Webster and Tzi Ma are both based in Canada and they changed at the last minute to film in Romania

Dont forget that ADM was to be filmed in New Mexico but changed to Canada and TK was to be filmed in Romania but changed to New Mexico
 

Mason

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As long as the movie will contain enough good choreographed fightscenes and a good script, then i'v come to the conclusion that I really dont care about where the movie is taking place.
 

bwana-beast

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Thanks for the info on a possible new movie for next year. Would be interesting if you can work out visiting the set to report.
 

DiDa

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Staff member
It's a sin that Seagal is stuck with this dtv crap. It's been years since he has made a movie where everyone of his fans was satisfied. Movies like this will not change that.

That's the point. This will never ever change! He left EX3 behind and is back in the dtv business. That's what we have to accept. We can complain about this and that but I think we have to make the best of it and hope that he will deliver a nice dtv actioner. But I hope you agree that his recent DTV movies are a lot better than the Michael Keusch / Michael Oblowitz ones.
 

rastafari

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That's the point. This will never ever change! He left EX3 behind and is back in the dtv business. That's what we have to accept. We can complain about this and that but I think we have to make the best of it and hope that he will deliver a nice dtv actioner. But I hope you agree that his recent DTV movies are a lot better than the Michael Keusch / Michael Oblowitz ones.

Agree...no matter what we think about him working with Waxman to often he is far better than the two mentioned above when I was close to giving up on seagal....2005-7 seagals films were a disgrace ending with the very good UJ
 

Mason

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Nobody gives a shit. His future movies are doomed unless he finds another director and plays more bad guy parts. So far the only bad guy part he has is in Machete.

He also plays a villain in Gutshot Straight :) Althought the name Paulie Trunks make me laugh :D

 
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