Martial arts icon Jean-Claude Van Damme (Kill ’em All, Death Warrant) is set to star in Prison Fight, an upcoming action thriller that reunites the “Muscles from Brussels” with French filmmaker David Charhon (Cyprien), following their collaborations on 2025’s The Gardener and 2021’s The Last Mercenary.
Prison Fight follows three brothers destined for boxing glory until their lives fall apart. One of them travels to Thailand to compete in an underground tournament where inmates fight outsiders for freedom.
Van Damme is part of an ensemble cast that includes Tewfik Jallab (Paris Has Fallen) Salim Kechiouche (Mektoub, My Love) Nassim Lyes (Under Paris) and Ava Baya (GTMAX), alongside real-life Prison Fight participant Rayan Bouazza and a host of real-life MMA fighters (via Deadline).
Other Angle Pictures, which previously handled sales for 2018’s The Bouncer, 2021’s The Last Mercenary, and 2025’s The Gardener, is also overseeing sales duties for Prison Fight.
🔥 Related Reading: If you haven’t already, be sure to check out our article, Van Damme: The Most ‘remade’ Action Star, which explores why JCVD remains the ultimate trendsetter in action and martial arts cinema. We’re pretty proud of it, even if it didn’t get the Pulitzer attention it clearly deserved.
Prison Fight is slated to begin production in 2027. While we wait, take a look at Van Damme and Charhon’s most recent collaboration, The Gardener:
