Alicia Malone
Dolph Lundgren tells Screen Junkies that he’s signed to play the lead role in director Uwe Boll’s “In the Name of the King 2″.
”I play an ex-middle ages war veteran who gets f*cked up but he gets pulled into some sort of medieval power struggle, kind of gets a bit of a redemption for all his pains in service”, says Lundgren, still riding high on the success of “The Expendables”. “It’s a role I just wanted to [play.] It’s fun to exercise my acting chops once in a while. I’ve got to get ready for Expendables 2.”
The plot, we’re told, is somewhat similar to – funnily enough – Lundgren’s “Masters of the Universe” movie. He plays a guy, a descendant of one of the characters in the first film, who is sucked back through time to battle sword-wielding bad guys.
Boll spoke on talk radio about the plot, saying it’s – see if you can understand this – “like contemporary, right now big city, and we have Dolph Lundgren basically being a cop or like a fighting coordinator working as this, and one night he gets attacked by ninjas in his house and fell with the ninjas into a vortex back in time. And then it turns out it’s like 50 years after the first part IN THE NAME OF THE KING ended, and Ehb is destroyed and everybody is dead, Jason Statham and everybody who was in the first part, got wiped out. They say he was basically sent into the future he’s the son of Jason Statham, and he was sent into the future, brought up in an orphanage, because the parents felt that they would all die. So he is basically the last survivor of the kingdom of Ehb so he should bring the kingdom back in charge.”
Natassia Malthe is also in the movie.
“In the Name of the King 2” apparently begins shooting early 2011 in Vancouver.
