But the point I was leading up to was that Jean-Claude just wouldn't be the villain who gets killed at the end of a movie. KUMITE! Back then, things were so different. In honor of How Did This Get Made?'s #Bloodsport episode, we made this #supercut of Jean-Claude Van Damme's super #butt! It was also seen by Viacom. Brought his wife with him and we just hit it off, right from the getgo. I need to tell you about something that happened first. He's a real talent when it comes to that. He basically makes up these stories, casts himself as the leading character and somehow convinces himself that he really did this stuff. It's a way for me to just flow. And that was the difference. Which was Mike's move. I don't know if the word "genius" is maybe taking it too high, but this is a very smart creative guy who is very much underappreciated. So you know what that means. You can't just go in there and get it. That's kind of how it appealed to me. Idc, even have a "Thor and Cap trade weapons moment" in Endgame with those two. And that's how I ended up co-writing Rambo III with him. And then Troutman gets captured by the Russians and Rambo's feeling guilt because he let his buddy down. That's just point of the absurdity of the whole thing.Blake Harris: And, when you were there, how did the reporter respond to all this?Frank Dux: I embarrassed the hell out of him. How did you feel afterwards?Frank Dux: It was an enlightening moment. The official budget's $1.2 million but I was told that we did that filmbelow the linefor under half a million bucks. With Jean-Claude Van Damme, Donald Gibb, Leah Ayres, Norman Burton. he's a terrible actor. I gotta tell you: Seeing it years later, I didn't realize how good it was. Jean-Claude's character comes to the US to help out his brother, not with anything like revenge or violence on his mind. Sheldon tells everybody that I told him a story of how I fought these events and he thought that would make a great movie and all this kind of stuff. So he re-cut the fights, Michael restructured the movie and when we saw the next cut (which was quite a while later), the movie really worked. And apparently it did huge business. And the one twinning shot would sell it and it worked surprisingly well.Blake Harris: The next movie you worked on with Jean-Claude was his directorial debut, The Quest [1996], but only in the capacity of script polishing. By their own photographer. So he goes there on his own to rescue Troutman, and that pretty much became the movie.Blake Harris: That's a good point. During the tournament, Dux battles an array of international fighters from various schools of martial arts. It was a horrible film. He was good at stiff karate moves, but that was it. That's the thing. While trying to gain access into. And interestingly enough, it was only after Jean-Claude did that to Sheldon that he testified on my behalf in the case for The Quest.Blake Harris: I understand. Or was the movie developed in a totally different way?Frank Dux: Well I'll tell you what happened. His point was that they just wanted to show it was a kid in trouble who could have gone down a different path, but martial arts puts him on the right path. I thought it was Pasadena, but everyone's told me it was Long Beach. I remember paying for the uniforms. If you want to look it up, the SEAL manual number is K-431-0097.Blake Harris: Great. However, speaking of the UFC, Frank Dux does have a tangential connection to the UFC. And tears started to form in my eyes. I don't really want to give this guy a platform for more publicity because that's what he's always looking for.". Give me your best shot. Use promo code BONKERS for a free month. Three months later, it formally opened at the Odyssey Theatre in Los Angeles to rave reviews. And his wife and my wife became even closer friends. To my face he's pretending to be my best buddy, but behind my back he's doing everything in his power to undermine me in my career and take credit for my work.Blake Harris: I'm really sorry to hear that.Frank Dux: And that's a typical Hollywood story, right? No, never. That's not even my name. And he just started laughing and he says, "Frank, you're crazy. And we ended up settling. He liked the authenticity in it and he'd heard about Tracers also. Everything you've just been telling me about this Kumite, that's a great idea for a movie. And one of those people was Sylvester Stallone, who had put the word out that he was looking for someone to help him write Rambo III. Using tech he got from Lex Luthor, Bloodsport teleported a rifle that fired Kryptonite needles into his hands and shot Superman with it. He was a little too old at the time. Over the show's decade-long run, they've covered a lot of. So I suggested a version where Rambo tells Trautman, "Sorry, Colonel, I fought my war. Hit the Subscribe button to track updates in Player FM, or paste the feed URL into other podcast apps. How involved were you with that reshaping?Frank Dux: Every day, when Sheldon was writing the script, I would be in the office with him and Mark DiSalle, the producer. Go to https://NordVPN.com/variant to get a 2-year plan at a huge discount plus 4 months free. KUMITE! Well, here's the reality of the situation. I didn't understand. And we never had a fight from that point on. And of course he says he did (but he didn't). Then he said, "It's my movie too and I want what's best for the film! He actually challenged me to a fight. This thing, it had legs, and started traveling around the world (London, Australia, etc. But if they did Bloodsport, then they can do Timecop. He had a chance to read them. Originally he'd planned for it to take place in present day, but I just thought that if you've got all of these fighters coming from all of the world like they did in Bloodsportand basically he was just trying to do a different version of Bloodsportthat it would make things more interesting if, for example, this took place in the 1920s because then it becomes really difficult for all these fighters from different parts of the world to journey to this contest.Blake Harris: So Frank was originally hired to write the script for The Quest?Sheldon Lettich: Frank, and they actually put another writer on with Frank. And so how did you swivel from that experience into something in the film world?Sheldon Lettich: This will sound like it's coming completely out of left field, but the first time I actually got paid to write a script was a horror film that involved voodoo.Blake Harris: Yeah, I think that qualifies as "left field" status.Sheldon Lettich: [laughing] What happened was I had met [Blaxploitation star] Leon Isaac Kennedy, who wanted to option a script of mine. What follows is a conversation with Sheldon Lettich, who was thescreenwriter ofthe movie Bloodsport. That's how Frank and I met.Blake Harris: Do you remember what your first meeting was like?Sheldon Lettich: We hit it off right away. He used to tell everybody he was a ninja; I think he still maintains he was a ninja and took his training from this guy named Tanaka. Because we don't want our readers to be misinformed, Black Belt has a policy of strict verification of all facts pertaining to any article. He was pure, he didn't do drugs. I showed him pictures of this ancient fortress on a hilltop that the Russians had converted, so that became the basis for it. The other thing is that Jean-Claude, like I said, he had this uncanny way he looked. You can listen to theBloodsportedition of the HDTGM podcasthere. We'd shoot one side of the screen with one of the brothers and then Jean-Claude would have to change his hair, make-up, wardrobe and we'd have a double standing in for another brother. By Earwolf, Paul Scheer, June Diane Raphael, and Jason Mantzoukas. "But Sly," I said, "it really wouldn't work that way because one thing that's been established with Rambo is that he's the baddest motherf***er in the world, but he doesn't want to fight. And so the ink was barely dry when I drove right over to Moshe's house and we signed a deal to do what became Double Impact.Blake Harris: From a technological standpoint, what were some of the biggest challenges with shooting two Jean-Claudes?Sheldon Lettich: The biggest challenges were that we were still using old technology. You know, where people go around wearing medals and talking about their fictional war exploits.Blake Harris: That actually makes for a good, non-Frank-related jumping off point. Frank and I did write a couple of scripts together, and he received credit on both of them. So he met me on the roof of the Victoria hotel. Leon hired me to write a script, which Menahem ended up liking. Oh man, he f***ing hated that movie. But Vic explained it to me. He was the one who actually introduced me to beef and oyster sauce. It was a best of three, that's the way I recollect it. And like I said, guys like Sheldon didn't help, putting a knife in my back.Blake Harris: So what was it like seeing him at the screening?Frank Dux: I was cordial. If he doesn't have any use for people, he throws them to the side. You see it all the time. And were just digging this whole notion of Jean-Claude being a Legionnaire. I'd been writing screenplays and thinking about films, but what happened was an actor friend mine was reading Drama-Logue and saw an ad from this guy John Di Fusco looking for actors who were also Vietnam veterans. Sadly not at all. And then Hollywood got to him and he started showing signs of manic depression, you know?Blake Harris: In what way?Frank Dux: I'll never forget. Or actually, a better question: how did Bloodsport first come together?Sheldon Lettich: [producer] Mark DiSalle invited me to lunch. In front of everybody. Yet with Bloodsport, this was not the case. How conscious were youand I don't mean with that movie, but in generalabout that kind of formula. I had them cut down so it would fit him because I'm a bigger guy. But I'm curious, getting back to what you were saying earlierand what to ultimately led to that story you describedat what point was the producer Mark DiSalle convinced that Jean-Claude would work? Back when I first started working with Stallone, my agent had told me to bring an idea to pitch him for a script. It made its budget back just the first weekend on the west coast. So on Lionheart, I went up where [Jean-Claude] was standing on the ledge of the building, doing what I had done that he was afraid to do in Hong Kong. And there'd be a bunch of people there with phones to record it, so we don't want this to happen.Blake Harris: Speaking of that screening, Frank had mentioned that you were crushed. Poison! But instead, he went back on his word and he did everything in his power to hold me down. DuBois' Bloodsport first appeared in Superman Vol 2 #4 by John Byrne back in 1987. Or any agent's records? I should mention that within hours of the piece begin published, we received several unsolicited e-mails from people who had been there and had a significantly different memory of the screening.Sheldon Lettich: [laughing] I'll let you readers draw their own conclusions. So he was just trying to get me in trouble.Blake Harris: What, in your opinion, was his motive?Frank Dux: Well, the thing is, the article came out on the same day that a few of my business competitors are holding a seminar. Jean-Claude saw Menahem on the street, did a U-Turn and said, "Hey Menahem, remember me? I'm not gonna stoop to his level. We even made a movie together, my 16mm short Firefight, which I gave him a major role in. We liked the fact that we were able to do something different there. Later on, after Sheldon and I got to talking, I gave it to Sheldon and we reshaped it.Blake Harris: And at what point did the script become called Bloodsport. We were calling it "Delayed Stress." Then we needed someone different to play the Chuck Norris role. You've gotta [in a dramatic macho voice] PUSHHIMTOOFAR. And they weren't returning phone calls. Pushed too farand generally all three words would appear on screenthat was big in the 80s. So we had a number of people come to my apartment; John would test them out for their acting abilities and we would also try to determine if they were for real.Blake Harris: In what sense?Sheldon Lettich: Oh, I just meant we'd try to determine if they were really Vietnam veterans. Sheldon Lettich: Yeah. What really made Bloodsport special, though, was the work of Jean-Claude Van Damme. I think it was Jean-Claude finally convinced them to allow him to do it. I went into the offices of the L.A. Times with my attorney with the actual fight film footage. He's got a lot of abilities. Anyways, they didn't pay me for doing my work on The Corsican Brothers and Delta Force 2. Because he's riding on the coattails of Jean-Claude. Like, for example, about your teacher?Frank Dux: They try to make it sound like I made up my instructor. Do you see what I'm saying? I was going to say something like, "By the way, there's actually someone here who worked on the movie and he can maybe answer some of your questions" and he was going to come out and everyone would have went f***ing crazy. But Menahem had an in-house fixer named Michael J. Duthie, a really good editor, and he basically re-worked the movie. It's a tale so amazing that two months after the film's release, it was dismissed by the L.A. Times as nothing but a fabricated "macho fantasy." But he was telling me about this tournament that he participated in where all the best fighters in the world showed up. And that's pretty much what Double Impact isBlake Harris: I read online that you might be writing a sequel to Double Impact? The concept of gladiatorial games has its roots in the Etruscans, the predecessors of the Romans. We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. You try to get him to do a judo throw and he couldn't throw anybody. And here's the thing that gets me about how stupid people are. Not what's typically expected, which was: Jean-Claude's going to find these motherf***ers and beat the s*** out of them. Surprised? It developed a strong cult following, and has been cited as an influence on the development of mixed martial arts. And he turns to me and he says: "You know, Frankie, I signed a five-picture deal. I imagine it's hard to write a personal, firsthand account like that.Frank Dux: Here's the thing. But what's crazy is almost everything he says in that interview is an outright lie or a distortion.Blake Harris: I've interviewed a lot of people in my timeincluding a lot of people I believe were trying to sell me on liesbut I never got the sense from Frank that he was trying to put one over on me. I did some research and realized I wanted to do a French Foreign Legion movie. Like in South America it was called "Vale Tudo" and if the Japanese were running the event it was "Kumite San Soo," so this was a word that described them all.Blake Harris: That's interesting. And we were dogs being pitted against each other. They didn't back me up and they never said anything about seeing my fight footage.Blake Harris: I'm really sorry to hear that.Frank Dux: And one of the things that people don't realize is that after the Times article came out, people were so willing to convict me, just because it was the Times.Blake Harris: I just have one last question for you: since this whole thing grew, in a way, out of your friendship with Sheldon, I was wondering when was the last time that you spoke with him?Frank Dux: I saw Sheldon, believe it or not, about four weeks ago. 20th Century Fox was high on Only the Strong and we all kind of expected that movie to do better than it did. Even though we thought the movie was better, Menahem didn't. I should also back up and say that I was really poor growing up. Thus, gladiatorial combats originally possessed a sacred significance. Please note as always our subject'sopinions, recollections and claims are his own, and do not reflect the views of the author or this publication. So those are the three elements. And then there was the famous meeting between Jean-Claude and Menahem on La Cienega Boulevard. We're not friends [anymore] and he does everything in his power to try and paint me as being a nutball or a kook because of it.Blake Harris: That's why I wanted to focus this piece on you, so you can tell the story in your own words.Frank Dux: So now you're starting to hear the real truth of the matter, you know what I mean? "Frank Dux: Yeah. They'll cover Frank Dux being a real man, Van Damme's soft baby b. Both of them wanted to be the cop.Blake Harris: That's so funny (though it makes sense).Sheldon Lettich: It just couldn't be worked out so the project fell by the wayside until they got Stallone and Wesley Snipes to be in it. And not only did More beat Lee, but he actually let him score one. Synopsis:U.S. Army Captain Frank Dux (Jean-Claude Van Damme), who had been trained as a boy by the legendary Ninjutsu master Senzo Tanaka, decides to honor his mentor by taking the place of Tanaka's dead son in an illegal, no-holds-barred martial arts tournament called the "Kumite. And this felt very personal because the guys that were up on stage for those initial performances were pretty much playing themselves in many respects.Tracers, as the play would later be titled, was first presented as a work-in-progress performance piece on July 4, 1980. That movie's terrible; I'm putting it straight to video. They didn't have any proper uniforms. And I could see he was really contemplating it. And I remember watching a movie where James Bond was doing jujitsu. It was awarded the Drama-Logue Critics' Award for Direction and the Los Angeles Drama Critics' Award for Ensemble Performance. I actually got to take my mother for the first time to see the film. Bloodsport was produced by Cannon Films and released by Warner Bros. on 26 February 1988. Well I did, and I landed one right on his nose.Blake Harris: Really?Frank Dux: Yeah, and he was not happy about that. And I showed them, here's an issue of Black Belt magazine from two years prior to this; and here's a photo of me in that magazine from January 1976 right after I won it, holding the trophy. But, I mean, he couldn't do a forward roll when I first got him. For you, I mean.Sheldon Lettich: Oh yeah, oh absolutely. Plus, two cousins duke it out . We're 60 stories in the air, I'm not kidding you. All that was missing was an actor to play Frank Dux. Was Sheldon the first person you shared it with?Frank Dux: Well, it was supposed to be a series. The Jean-Claude I knew was a person who you wanted to see win. At that point, it was to their advantage. One of the only places where we initially differed was with the entry point. Discovered by Player FM and our community copyright is owned by the publisher, not Player FM, and audio is streamed directly from their servers. They were just being assholes.Blake Harris: That seemed to happen a lot at CannonSheldon Lettich: Now Blake, I have never filed a lawsuit against anyone in this business, but I filed a lawsuit against those guys, against Cannon. She'd never seen it. 2. level 1. Not looking to find myself embroiled in the middle of a he-said, she-said war of words, I happily agreed to this request. Oh yeah! A lot of those shots came from the camera angles I had been directing. These guys, after brutally going at each other, now they were just laughing it off. Let's put Jean-Claude in. And if somebody tells me they were in Vietnam, and in the Marine Corps, I'll believe them. [laughing] Those old 80s trailers, that's what they'd say over and over again. Although there is no convenient way to verify each and every detail connected with this story, the editors have verified enough of the basic facts to feel confident in publishing it. As a result, he's spent the past 28 years dealing with perpetual allegations of being a fake and a fraud. He was born with all sorts of birth defectshe had one leg shorter than the other, he didn't have a jawboneand because of my own, I don't know, "disability," we became friends. And it was just surreal to her. I thought Bloodsport was going to ruin my career when it was first cut and put together. Wow.Frank Dux: And he knocked Chuck Norris to the ground several times. So he still didn't' have a lot of faith in Jean-Claude's acting abilities and decided not to make it. One of these covert operatives was one Frank Dux. He was crushed. KUMITE! In a recent documentary, Admiral Horton Smith not only acknowledges that I was a covert operative, but also states that any record of mine would have to come out of the Federal Intelligence Court. In the end, his psyche was broken when Jimmy Olsen brought his brother onto the scene. No. And we did.Blake Harris: Did Mark and the other producers spark to the idea of Jean-Claude?Frank Dux: They wanted to use Michael Dudikoff at first. How Did This Get Made's ad-free archives are available on Stitcher Premium. And basically what happens is I told the story to Sheldon. And on it, they didn't even spell my name correctly. And was that something that you and Jean-Claude consciously tried to deliver (or to avoid)?Sheldon Lettich: We tried to do something atypical with Lionheart. Especially when it comes to the military. At one point it was the second most profitable article they'd ever written. Mark was against it first, but I said, "Look, I can do a lot with this guy. Armed with a gun that fires Kryptonite needles, Bloodsport nearly succeeded in his mission to eliminate the Man of Steel, but ultimately failed. But the fights in the story were all real. It worked great. He was actually going to come to that Bloodsport screening in North Hollywood [referenced in our conversation with Frank Dux]. I still had not yet met Jean-Claude at this time. And at this point in time I don't think it's going to happen.Blake Harris: Ah, too bad. He was very stiff. Okay, try him out. What was all this camaraderie about? I think that's why people really love it. During that time, he's never felt like he had a platform to defuse those lies and tell his side of the storyuntil now. They were both pregnant at the same time. In 1987's Superman #4, by John Byrne and Karl Kesel, Superman tried to stop Bloodsport's rampage through Metropolis. And then Gary Sinese saw the play in New York and he wanted to put it on in Chicago. I was afraid to taste it, because I'm allergic to shellfish. Dux's trophy from the Bahamas event was at least partially made in the San Fernando Valley. And at one of these construction sites, there was a guy doing martial arts. He was considered "unstoppable" at that time. Another thing was that had I co-directed The Quest with Jean-Claude, it might have contributed to a mistaken notion that Jean-Claude co-directed Lionheart and Double Impact with me. And I gotta give him credit there. Start Free Trial. He took pride in the fact that he was all natural. The Origins of Gladiatorial Games. An animatronic dinosaur with a teen's brain, dinosaur charades, a weird striptease for a brain in a bowl, and much more. And he did the helicopter kick in No Retreat, No Surrender and I was well known for my flying kicks and finishing guys off with my spinning flying kicks. Told that the tournament was a secret, he said: "We would know. Then Jean-Claude came in and worked with Michael on the fight scenes, re-working those. Jean-Claude Van Damme." "He's a loser. He had a karate background. We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Enjoy, and please share and subscribe! Enter the Ninja?Sheldon Lettich: No, there was no script prior to the "Bloodsport" script. None of that is reported. Rambo was always a reluctant badass.Sheldon Lettich: Yeah, you've really gotta push him to fight. I wasn't going through anything like that myself, but it's therapeutic if you're able to recreate something that was an important part of your life and find a way to transmit it to other people. I felt bad for him.Blake Harris: Actually, if you don't mind, I have one more question for you.Frank Dux: Sure.Blake Harris: We've spent all of this time talking about your life as a fighter and portrayals of your life as a fighter. But it was interesting because he's fighting Mike Stone and Mike Stone had reportedly 91 wins. Because Jean-Claude uses people and chews them up as quick as he can. And Jean-Claude's got a really good sense of how a fight scene should be edited. "This guy's never gonna make it," Menahem said. Is that what you're telling me?Blake Harris: Right, that's why I thought it would difficult to prove (or disprove).Frank Dux: Yeah, but I'll tell you what. That's what really happened. Released in theaters 35 years ago, on Feb. 26, 1988, Bloodsport starred Van Damme as Frank Dux, a U.S. Army soldier who leaves the military to enter a fight-to-the-death martial arts tournament in . (w/ Nicole Byer) 4/7/2023 More HDTGM all-star Nicole Byer (Grand Crew, Nailed It!) After the fight, I go down to him and I said, "Hey, Mr. Moore, do you remember me?" And it was a Xeroxed copy of a receipt, a copy that anyone could fabricate on a home copy machine. 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