“Patriot” Teaser Poster
While we continue to wait on the long gesticulating Under Siege 3, hitting screens first will be what Steven Seagal himself has described as a “reimagining” of his 1998 feature The Patriot. In most territories The Patriot was the first Seagal movie to go direct-to-video, and focuses on a deadly virus that he has to stop before it becomes a pandemic. Of course the subject matter is timely considering current events, so we hope this will continue the modest return to form for the Aikido master following 2018’s Attrition.
Seagal’s latest, simply called Patriot, will re-pair him with writer and director Keoni Waxman, who worked almost exclusively with Seagal from 2009 to 2017, collaborating on 9 movies together in addition to several episodes of True Justice. After a 4 year hiatus, the pair clearly seem excited to be working together again, with Waxman having this to say – “The last time myself and Sifu Steven worked together was on Cartels in 2017, and we’ve been waiting for the right project to come along since then. When Steven told me his idea for a bold reimagining of The Patriot, it showed yet again why he’s a genius of the mind and not only the martial arts, and I’m excited to be bringing his vision to life onscreen.”
Initial plot details indicate that Seagal will be playing “…a true American patriot that’s become disillusioned with the system, and makes it his personal responsibility to bring down the cabal that is the New World Order.” Taking a leaf out of Dead Reckoning, the Scott Adkins vehicle that used the Boston Bombing as its inspiration, Patriot will incorporate the storming of Capitol Hill, which will see Seagal’s character team up with several other ‘patriots’ in what he’s described as “a mass participant martial arts battle unlike anything that’s been seen onscreen before.”
The dojo master received Russian citizenship in 2016, and critics are already suggesting that the title of Patriot is a ruse, with the productions real goal to be yet another instance of Russian interference in American matters. What exactly the final version of Patriot will look like we’ll have to wait and see, along with if indeed it’ll also focus on a deadly virus like the original.
Pre-production is due to start next month, and we’ll be sure to keep you in the loop as we hear more. Until then, we leave you with the Trailer for the 1998 original:
– Happy April Fools’ Day from Cityonfire.com!
How dare they reboot such a classic?? What’s next, a remake of Fire Down Below?
For a sec, I thought it was that Mel Gibson movie.
Steven Seagal is one of the few patriots left in the game. He is a staunch 2nd amendment supporter. He even believes some of the mass shootings in America were “engineered” for political outcomes to get rid of the 2nd amendment. In a time when rioters can come and burn your shop down, mobs can drag from your car and beat you, whilst police stand back or are completely disbanded and replaced with social workers, the 2nd amendment is more important than ever.
Seagal doesn’t cow cuck or play Hollywood games.. With his underrated directorial debut On Deadly Ground, he took on the globalist establishment with a scathing assessment of their greed and destruction of the natural environment. He didn’t do this as a communist that wanted to disarm law-abiding citizens, force untested vaccines on people or create one world Government – he did this as a patriot who loved his country and its people.
On Deadly Ground may deserve a directors cut. I would love to see the full speech at the end that was cut in half.. But the middle section of the film, his spiritual journey, is the most powerful part of the film and I’m sure it can be expanded. If his experiences with the native Americans can be fleshed out more and we can jump through the actioner ending a little more efficiently, I think the film could work better. The film only feels slow in the 3rd act when it shifts gears into a more conventional film. Before that, the middle section is a beautifully filmed, surreal rebuilding of a man. The way he jumps out of the river after a series of visions was like being born again, a kind of universalist religious experience that puts him on the right path.
I’m gonna take you to the bank…
I always find it interesting that Seagal effectively came out of nowhere when he starred in Above the Law. Norris, Van Damme and Lundgren all did duty as villains before geting their starring veichles.
Oh how I’m glad it’s April 1st!
Mr. H called it! Happy April Fools’ to all!
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hahahaha…good one Paul! Although stranger things have happened.
Just think…2 years ago, a post like “ZACK SNYDER TO RELEASE 4 HOUR CUT OF JUSTICE LEAGUE” would have qualified as an April Fool’s joke 🙂
How is this an “April Fools”? Its not even outlandish or interesting… It did not evoke any “OMG, WTF?!” response.. It was just a normal, plausible story – Seagal makes another Cheap movie with a title similar to his previous work. Thats literally every Seagal film of the last 20 years. This is the most autistic “April fools” ever.
Well it was interesting enough for you to launch into an impassioned 3 paragraph love letter to Mr. Seagal, and the other option was to pitch ‘Under Siege’ as a reboot with Gillian White from ‘Welcome to Sudden Death’ in the role of Casey Ryback. We all know how that would have went down.
No, Seagal as subject alone is interesting enough for me to launch into an impassioned 3 paragraph love letter … Seagal is the best.
Nobody really commented on the fake “April Fools” project directly.