Paul Walker will join David Bell, star of the original “13th district” (District B 13), in the English version of the film entitled "Brick Mansions".
Luc Besson и Robert Mark Kamen working together on the script. The director's name has not yet been announced.
According to the resource Deadline The action in the film will move to the states, to one of the American cities, most likely to Chicago. Walker will play the role of an undercover detective. He's looking for weapons of mass destruction stolen by a drug dealer from a ghetto called "Brick Mansions", and asks for help from the incredibly agile Lino (Belle) who knows "Brick Mansions" better than anyone else. Lino the only one who is not afraid of drug dealers.
The film is financed by the company Luc Besson Europa Corp., and despite the fact that the role Lino Many Hollywood actors wanted to play Besson did not agree to make a film until it contained David Bell.
Source: Deadline, Movie Hole
why a remake? O_o it seems to me that it would be logical to just make a continuation... Why shoot the same thing? I don't understand(
Not controversial, because we were talking about the number and significance of titles earned in sports, in this regard he is really “ahead of the rest” =)
Oh, in this sense... yes, you are a champion in five categories, I won’t be mistaken...
He will never be able to perform tricks in Scott's style or even be able to throw high kicks at the same level as the older Donnie, because... he’ll have to change too much in his training, but he’s up to his neck with injuries and doesn’t have the motivation/desire to do it.
It seems to me that he doesn’t need this. Because everyone who watches his films are fans of Fedora, and it’s not so important how he played, or how he looked in the frame, what’s more important is his presence. Such films are usually watched purely because of Fedor...
Maybe staging fights in the style of MMA will work in Russia???
Still, the popularity of mixfight, even in our country, is already at a fairly high level.
Katty:
And you are perspicacious!
We try our best. The situation in cinema is not very good right now. This is all from naked commerce and chaos on the Internet. Let's see how "The Stranger" goes.
My team and I bet on him. And then we will complete the comedy that we started several years ago. There will be a planned fight scene where one person fights against 20 people. Jackie Chan comic style battle with training nunchucks. We want to correct the gap in the cinema when people come in line.
No one should stand in the frame. Especially when we build a lot of panoramas and no camera shake.
I agree about the last opus.
Why didn’t Jamal Azhigirey come along so to speak? Because he doesn’t need to adapt to the cinema when he has a rich combat school behind him. + the fight scenes in our movies are complete trash. My friend told me how they filmed LOTUS IMPACT 3. It's terrible! They were abandoned for a couple of hours and told: “Here’s a bus for you and you need to remove everything urgently.” And we all want to have a good movie with BI. It will not happen. You just need to be passionate about what you love. And the main thing is to know what would be suitable for Russian cinema. I mean the style of combat. Definitely, kung fu will definitely not work.
And according to Fedor. Which Emelianenko. If we remember him:
I don’t understand why he was taken to the SALAMANDER KEY. To be? Replace it with another and the film will lose absolutely nothing. What is the point of this game?
“Michael Jai White himself will teach champions how to fight. And I wouldn’t dare get into the ring with Scott Adkins.”
He can teach champions to fight only in films (although it is quite possible that he is a good trainer, but as a fighter in the ring/in the cage he is no match for the current champions) Did I say that the lack of titles and belts equals a bad fighter... no.
“Well, this is still a moot point...”
Not controversial, because we were talking about the number and significance of titles earned in sports, in this regard he is really “ahead of the rest” =)
"and he only has two or three films, he has little experience, but not all at once"
It's not a matter of experience, but of training. He will never be able to perform tricks in Scott's style or even be able to throw high kicks at the same level as the older Donnie, because... he’ll have to change too much in his training, but he’s up to his neck with injuries and doesn’t have the motivation/desire to do it.
actors such as Scott Adkins, Tony Jaa, Michael Jai White, Matt Mullins either did not compete in tournaments at all or were champions no higher than the country
Michael Jai White himself will teach champions how to fight. And I wouldn’t dare get into the ring with Scott Adkins either.
Don Dragon Wilson...with his credentials as prof. in sports, he pays attention to ALL movie fighters of our time and the past combined
Well, this is still a controversial issue....
Fedor Emelianenko – MMA LEGEND, 10 years of complete dominance in his weight category, so what? He's not even close to Scott Adkins in MOVIE BOYS
and he only has two or three films, little experience, but not all at once... he’s seen worse. And Fedor is a good fighter, but he simply doesn’t have enough experience in cinema...
The only exception to the eminent and current champions who have performed well in film fights is Benny Urquidez.
but here I can’t disagree!
And I don’t consider film fighters who have not competed in any tournaments to be bad fighters. A striking example is Bruce Lee. a man who showed the whole world how to fight...
Modest schoolboy)))
If so, then a deep bow to you and the “Grotesk” group for supporting stunt cinema, and, of course, success in your endeavors!
I agree 1000% with the statement about Benny Urquidez! Saw some of his fights and read about him. Phenomenal guy.
Katty:
What are you talking about? I'm a very modest person. Minding her own business.
Dmitry Shadrin is the director of the first stunt team in Nizhny Novgorod.
At the moment I am preparing for export a mystical detective story with a dash of Bollywood and European detective stories. Of course with action in the style of Hong Kong 80s. I enjoy these times, when there was very high-quality and seasoned cinema. Both in terms of the interestingness of the fights, and in terms of the cameraman and editing!
No. The best athletes sit in their sports and defend their championship titles, and such actors as Scott Adkins, Tony Jaa, Michael Jai White, Matt Mullins either did not compete in tournaments at all, or were champions no higher than the country, let’s say Matt was a karate champion, BUT these competitions in real life are ordinary tricker performances
By the way, there are examples of the opposite, when the coolest champions IN REAL looked very average against the background of MOVIE fighters - NOT champions
Best example: Don Dragon Wilson...with his credentials as a prof. in sports, he will give ALL the movie fighters of our time and the past combined, BUT the world has never seen the worst movie fighter, Keanu Reeves (having worked out for several months before The Matrix) looks better in movie battles than the champion of everything and everyone in kickboxing - Wilson =)
Another example: the film Kickboxer - Van Damme’s “brother” was played by the world champion professional. kickboxing, when Van Damme himself was only the European champion and then... a long time ago... who looked better on the screen? The answer is obvious.
Another example: Fedor Emelianenko - MMA LEGEND, 10 years of complete dominance in his weight category, so what? He is not even close to Scott Adkins (who never competed anywhere) or Donnie Yen (who also, if he competed in competitions, did so a long time ago and not in fights)
The only exception among the eminent and current champions who have performed well in film fights is Benny Urquidez.
Movie fighters and fighter-athletes do the same thing (promote sports, competitive training, physical improvement, etc.), but only approach this matter from different angles. Both are good, comparing them and saying that someone is better than someone else is not correct.
all this is nonsense...in the movies....
I don't agree....
for martial arts stars they hire the best...champions....masters...
SO THAT YOU AT LEAST BELIEVED IN WHAT IS HAPPENING...that the main character can really do everything that is in the movies...
and ordinary athletes will not be able to show anything for the same operators and choreographers.
Great schoolboy)))
Oh Gods! Who are you, mysterious sensei Jaidev? Show us your beautiful face, dispel doubts that you are just a schoolboy writing on behalf of a great stuntman. Come on, we're waiting...
EvilDollaR - THANK YOU for the video!!!
What an athlete! Just a maniac of his business! You really need to pump yourself up and get carried away with tricking.
Good character. He would be paired with Donnie Yen or Tony Jaa.
Speaking of "The District" and Walker.
I can say that no matter what kind of athlete he is, a lot depends on the choreographer, cameraman and editor. You can screw up any star.
And it really turns me off when they say that he has such and such a belt and titles. All this is nonsense in the movies.
Newbies from the sport come to my stunt team who have spent a year there, but damn it, they don’t know how to work on camera at all. No sense of distance, no rhythm, no tempo. Horror!
But I understand them. They trained for something completely different.
And when they say that for the filming of this or that film they hired a special forces soldier who trained the actors, it seems to me a perversion.
A good system was organized in Europe and the States by Corey Yen and Yen Woo Ping. They arrived, set it up, shot working angles and left. That's the thing.
Although... again, a controversial issue.
I’ve seen fights staged at work many times and they looked great, but the crap cameramen, who have no idea how to film fights, frankly botched everything.
The tape looks like a blue belt.
There is a good note on the CP about the first Fast and the Furious:
In the first film, Walker and Diesel were allowed to perform many of the stunts, since neither was considered a star at the time. But by the fourth Fast and the Furious, the actors became famous, the stunts became more difficult, and the studio forbade Walker and Diesel to take risks.
Walker doesn’t have a blue belt in BDD, but a purple one, and after the purple comes brown, and then black... And Paul is a good actor and a good athlete, and looks great on camera... by the way, in the first Fast and the Furious, he did all his own tricks, and most in other parts...
Do not be rude. They communicate with you normally, so behave the same way and don’t show off =)
About BI and cinema: my mistake, I admit, a person has something to do with BI, BUT CINEMA combat is “slightly” different from a real fight, the effectiveness of the blows/techniques that are used plays a big role here. If we are talking about “realistic” cinema combat, then you still need to be able to look on camera in such a way that people believe in your coolness. Paul looked good in a couple of fighting scenes in Fast and Furious, but they were very basic in nature and wouldn't look good after the fighting scenes in District 13.
About athleticism and cinema: I know people who do not have big biceps, six-pack abs and perfect splits, but at the same time people will easily tear into pieces a huge number of pumped up and sculpted “guys”, but again...we are talking about movie. Here a person must have a beautiful and athletic physique (for example, Statham, who was slender and essentially had a good figure, but for roles in action films he gained a decent amount of muscle mass to correspond to Hollywood cliches) Here is Walker... slender... yes, sporty... quite possible, but in any case he will have to seriously pump up the film to match the genre.
About BJJ: I don’t know much about the ground game, I’m more into the striking part, BUT the blue belt in BJJ comes right after the white one, so I wouldn’t say that it’s somehow super-cool. + there are vivid examples when really cool fighters IN REAL simply sucked in MOVIE battles. In addition, one should not forget that the feature of the 13th district is parkour, and here BI skills and a good physical fitness will not be enough, so Walker will have backups and this again goes to the disadvantage of the remake, because in the original films the actors did everything themselves
How do you like, for example, such a jock-tricker in the title role:
PS Thank you, Zhen, it was useful. ;)
So true
Plus, Walker has recently improved indecently.
Celpaso, please don't be stupid!
Paul Walker, who in your words “has nothing to do with martial arts and is not distinguished by athleticism,” actually has a belt in Brazilian jiu-jitsu, which is much more significant than the dubious self-propelled parkour fighters.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nut5hKNTk2s
This is about BI.
And as for athleticism, I actually made him laugh. Not only is he, as an actor, a good athlete, and a versatile one at that (jiu-jitsu, auto racing, surfing), but, among other things, he has his own rescue organization, REACT, and he is supposed to be in good physical shape.
Study the subject before you write nonsense.
The first part was amazing, the second was complete crap with the fat Bel and the arrogant Cyril, who pretended to be a superman.
Nafik needs a remake with one new actor, who is in no way related to BI and is no different in athleticism, and one old one, but out of shape.
What? Paul Walker?? The one from Fast and the Furious? Is he a cool MA actor? Cyril, in my opinion, will be more technical than the others. If it’s a remake, then either film it with completely different actors, or with the same ones. Otherwise, well, who knows..
Hurray, finally Paul Walker will star in a movie about BI and show that he really knows BJJ :)
I'm rooting for Walker.
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Came. I just send through feedback, but don’t go to the mail, so if anything happens (next time), write to me in the comments - I’ll go.
Thanks again, I'll do it tomorrow if nothing interferes.
It would be better if they filmed the third part.
But not like the second one...
The second part is simply about nothing. And what's the point of making a remake? It would be better if they filmed part 3 already
Yes, thank you, Ilya, didn’t you receive an answer?
Offtopic: Sasha, did you receive my link to the review?
I also liked the first one better...
The previous two parts of the film: “District 13” were excellent, Paul Walker also joined, so it will be a cool film =)
The director and editor for the second part should be impaled along with the screenwriter. Moreover, for one count of all three.
great news!!! I wonder if David Belle is as fit as ever...
It's a shame that a remake would be better than something original! But the actors are excellent, so I don’t think it will let us down!!!