Kendo to appear in upcoming action thriller "Deathgames"

**Ändi** · 21st July 2010, 03:03 AM

According to information from the net (found here and here), there is this new 10 million dollar action movie by Jonah Loop currently being filmed. Loop's directorial debut "Deathgames" is about an artist (played by Daniel Dae Kim from Lost) who also happens to be a kendo master and who is being abducted to an arena where he has to engage in lethal duels in front of an online audience to save his family. The bad guy who organizes this entertainment is played by Samuel L. Jackson, and Kellan Lutz will be in it as well.

So the plot seems to fit a rather straightforward action thriller of the simple kind and therefore the movie has already been compared to "Gamer" and "The Condemned" which isn't so promising. I'm curious how kendo will be represented... better not have too high expectations. At least some of the notorious "if a kendoka was to fight a x, who'd win?" questions will find a definitive answer!

**tango** · 21st July 2010, 03:29 AM

prepare your dojo/club for the latest rush of newbie-backyard-ninjer-sword-wielding-manga-anime-killer-shogun-wanna-bes.....

not that there's anything wrong with that.
maybe a few will turn out to stick with kendo...

**JSchmidt** · 21st July 2010, 03:42 AM

10 million dollar budget? Nobody will see it, so I wouldn't worry about it.

**hl1978** · 21st July 2010, 04:17 AM

Originally Posted by JSchmidt

10 million dollar budget? Nobody will see it, so I wouldn't worry about it.

I think there are more than a few people that will watch anything with Samuel L Jackson in it.

**AlexM** · 21st July 2010, 07:08 AM

Smells like a direct-to-video release. And by video I mean VHS at best.

**MikeW** · 21st July 2010, 07:16 AM

Originally Posted by Ändi

At least some of the notorious "if a kendoka was to fight a x, who'd win?" questions will find a definitive answer!

I am not sure if that was a joke or not.

**Anonymous** · 21st July 2010, 12:36 PM

Originally Posted by tango

prepare your dojo/club for the latest rush of newbie-backyard-ninjer-sword-wielding-manga-anime-killer-shogun-wanna-bes.....

not that there's anything wrong with that.
maybe a few will turn out to stick with kendo...

I'm sure more than a few of us are looking forward to handing out a few beatings...

**JSchmidt** · 21st July 2010, 12:45 PM

Originally Posted by hl1978

I think there are more than a few people that will watch anything with Samuel L Jackson in it.

He probably owed a favour to someone and agreed to appear for free. I strongly suspect that this one will be straight to late-night cable, do not pass DVD-release.

**yoda-waza** · 21st July 2010, 04:10 PM

zzzzzz.....zzzzzz......zzzzzz.....

**Ändi** · 21st July 2010, 07:36 PM

Originally Posted by MikeW

I am not sure if that was a joke or not.

I wouldn't allow myself to be joking on such an important matter. BTW from all that I've seen I reckon Mace Windu will pwn that kendo guy.

**Thunder** · 23rd July 2010, 02:30 AM

it will be interesting when all of the sword fights from the "kendo master" only last one or two movements. Seme...Seme.....Strike! DEAD!
(Not so action-packed.)

**rfoxmich** · 23rd July 2010, 05:14 AM

Two go in, one comes out...oh wait, they already made that movie.

**rainmaker** · 26th July 2010, 11:15 AM

You never know with Samuel Jackson.... Remember the movie, snakes on a plane ? His famous quote "Enough is enough! I have had it with these motherXXXX snakes on this motherXXXXX plane!" He may say "engough is enough, I have had with these motherXXXX seme with motheXXX men!!"

We will have people line up for Kendo......