Caffeinated Clint
Despite what the original plan was, Dolph Lundgren won’t be joining Jean Claude Van Damme for the next ”Universal Soldier” sequel.
Van Damme tells MTV that he suggested to the studio that they bring Lundgren’s character back but they, forever watching their hip pocket, didn’t go for it.
“I told them, guys bring in Dolph! They said there’s no more value [to cast him]. I said, ‘it will have value with me!'”
(Funnily enough, it was the AFM website that first listed Lundgren as being involved in the film – you’d think that’d be as official as you can get, right?).
Van Damme, who doesn’t sound too excited about the prospecting of doing this second sequel to Roland Emmerich’s 1992 actioner, also tells the site that he’ll only be doing 10 days on the film.
This was the plot of the film, as of a few months back (I assume it’s changed now that they’ve dumped Dolph).
A crazed Chechen nationalist, BASAYEV, seizes control of Chernobyl, site of the infamous nuclear meltdown, and threatens to unleash a radioactive cloud unless his nationalist blackmail demands are met.
LUC DEVEREAUX (Jean-Claude Van Damme) joins a U.S. team of revived UniSoldiers secretly held in deep storage. Their mission: retake Chernobyl and disable explosives that will unleash the radioactive clouds. Luc is surprised when he finds one of the reactivated UniSoldiers is a clone of his old Sergeant, ANDREW SCOTT (Dolph Lundgren). But the cloned Andrew has no recollection of Luc.
As the team furiously battles its way into the Chernobyl plant, they are caught off guard. Using a mind-control chip, Baseyev turns Andrew against his own comrades. Now surrounded, wounded, and out-numbered, Luc must battle Andrew, and save the world.
