“Attrition” Theatrical Poster
We’ll soon see Steven Seagal (Above the Law) kicking some ass in Attrition (read our review), a Kurosawa-esque project that Seagal wrote years ago. At once point, Seagal was attached to helm the project (it would have been his first directing gig since 1994’s On Deadly Ground, 22 years ago), but directorial duties were switched over to Mathieu Weschler, the filmmaker behind Covert Operation (aka The Borderland).
Hong Kong cinema fans will be delighted to learn that Fan Siu Wong (Riki-Oh: The Story of Ricky) and Yu Kang (Wu Xia) are part of the all-star cast that also includes Vithaya Pansringarm (Lupin the Third, Only God Forgives), Rudy Youngblood (Apocalypto), James P. Bennett (Swelter), Cha-Lee Yoon (Plan B, One Million K(l)icks) and Bayra Bela (Netflix’ Marco Polo).
Attrition is said to be about Axe (Seagal), a warrior who’s in search of a missing Thai girl who possesses mythical powers. “I’ve written something called Attrition, which kind of reminds me of a [Akira] Kurosawa movie. I’m hoping to make that soon, maybe in China, maybe in Hong Kong, maybe in Thailand. We’ve got a lot of great offers out there. We’re going to be getting real busy this year,” Seagal told JoBlo in 2015.
Seagal is producing Attrition along with Bey Logan (Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon II) and Philippe Martinez (Wake of Death).
We expect a release date soon. Until then, don’t miss the film’s New Trailer below (via FCS):
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It is about time he does his own movie’s again, if you need any help Steven call me or email me.
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Apparently he’s referring to the little-known director Barry Kurosawa, who is not related to the great master Akira Kurosawa in any way.
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I think he’s confusing Kurosawa with a Golden Child remake. 🙂
when is release date of this
Mike Leeder has been on fire with his candid thoughts on Bey Logan now that he’s the latest to be exposed in the mass sexual harassment scandal. It’s also renewing interest in the sex trafficking and harassment allegations against Seagal. I can imagine this movie is dead now.
Would this movie be considered an “Ip Man’sploitation” film? Dude is mimicking Donnie Yen’s portrayal of Ip Man while styling his fits like Ip Man from “The Grandmaster”. He even got Ip Man alumni Fan Siu Wong in the movie too.
All I hope is that the movie is will bring back the Seagal from “Belly Of The Beast” and “Into The Sun”. Seagal has been disappointing since his beard has been his sidekick.
Ip Man’sploitation film… lol
C’mon, ‘Into the Sun’ is one of Seagal’s worst. Not even the Tokyo setting could save it. & who the hell calls themselves mink!?
It wasn’t good, but sadly, Into the Sun is more watchable than the stuff Seagal put out recently. Back then, he could at least stand up and use his own voice.
It was sad to watch Chiaki Kuriyama be there for no reason, and for Ken Lo to do a bad Bruce Lee imitation.
It’s easy to say “Into the Sun” sucks. You gotta rate his movies on a curve though. “Into the Sun” is a bad movie when you rate it in general, but compared to other Seagal movies (almost 50 movies released to date), it actually ranks pretty high.
When you look at his career in phases, “Into the Sun” is in his post theatrical and pre-beard run in DTV. With that said, “Into the Sun” trumps titles like “Ticker”, “Submerged”, “Attack Force”, “Flight Of Fury” to name a few.
All I was trying to get at was that “Into the Sun” had pretty good HK style choreography and though the story wasn’t the best, it was good for a Seagal movie, meaning I didn’t have to fast forward to the next fight scene.
But that’s just my opinion. And you absolutely right, who calls themself “Mink”?
Belly of the Beast seemed like a return to form for him after his last batch of shitty films after Exit Wounds. I thought Into the Sun was going to be just as “good,” but it felt lackluster.
The fight choreography looked slower and more lazy. Especially when Ken Lo was deliberately slowing himself down.
But the movie is certainly more tolerable than the ones where Seagal uses stair climbing doubles.
I gotta say, I kinda love ‘Exit Wounds.’
I completely agree with you, Ron – you gotta rate these movies on a curve as wide as Seagal’s waistline (ha, that was a cheap shot – sorry, Steven). I actually haven’t seen ‘Into the Sun’ yet, but I quite enjoyed ‘Belly of the Beast’ back when it came out. If Seagal had kept making movies that were at least as good as ‘Beast,’ I would have kept watching his Direct to Video output.
Know what DTV flick of his I enjoyed? ‘Urban Justice.’ Sadly, it’s over 10 years old now, but that was a really nasty, mean-spirited, and violent flick from Seagal that brought back some of his oldschool ‘Marked for Death’-style brutality. I’ll never forget the scene where he says, “I’ma do the fuckin’ now” as he breaks a gangster’s neck.
I’ve heard good things about ‘Pistol Whipped,’ which features Lance Henriksen, but I haven’t seen it yet.
I’ve always said ‘Urban Justice’ (or ‘Renegade Justice’ as it was strangely re-titled in the UK) and ‘Pistol Whipped’ make a great double-bill. Made around the same time, and both recapture that vintage Seagal feel of old. I think you’d enjoy it Zack.
I had no idea this movie would finish filming. The trailer is interesting. “Ip Man-sploitation” seems like an accurate description though.
I figured no distributor would want to get near this now that Bey Logan and Seagal have been outed as sex criminals.
They should change the title to ‘Indigestion: The Bloated Grandmaster’ based on that trailer.
Steven Seagal as Ip Men.
LMAO at that Grandmaster lifted horseshit.
So Seagal has doubles for walking, standing, fighting, ADR and stunts, I’m guessing he has a double to direct it for him as well.
Wearing a black mumu and quoting from this years ‘Eastern Sayings’ calendar, Mr Seagull lurches through decent actors, whilst gawking at the ladies, to finally pretend to play the ‘geetaar’ as the credits roll. Sad.