And then there's another story where he met Menahem and did it another way in Monaco. You see my point? Except the version that Stallone had in mind was for a present day French Foreign Legion movie about two American buddies who enlist. But back then it sounded really cool.Blake Harris: Well you started that clich!Sheldon Lettich: [laughter] Back then, to say "based on a true story" was something that intrigued, and I think it particularly intrigued Menahem Golan. They didn't have any proper uniforms. Released in 1988, Bloodsport tells the story of Frank Dux (Jean-Claude Van Damme), a captain in the U.S. Army and an experienced martial artist, who ignores his superiors and competes in an illegal martial arts tournament in Hong Kong. Sheldon Lettich: We got some amazing reviews and it just turned into a little bit of a mini-phenomenon. 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 . And they wouldn't show it to me. And so yeah. And we did. And when I told about him the purpose of this How Did This Get Made seriesto investigate how movies got made, and the careers of those involvedhe was happy to clear up any misconceptions and provide additional insights into the making of Bloodsport, his two decades of collaboration with Jean-Claude Van Damme and what it takes to write a badass, blow-em-up action film. That kind of caught my fancy. ". It was done on the exact same day that Masaaki Hatsumi, Stephen Hayes and Shoto Tanemurathese are guys who think no one in the world is a ninja but them and everyone else is a fake.Blake Harris: What about some of the specific claims that the piece makes? Well, here's the reality of the situation. That's bullshit, that's total bullshit.Blake Harris: What about those claims regarding your covert military background? The Origins of Gladiatorial Games. Not looking to find myself embroiled in the middle of a he-said, she-said war of words, I happily agreed to this request. And Jean-Claude's got a really good sense of how a fight scene should be edited. Nobody clapped for Sheldon. In the early to mid 90s, dinosaurs were soooo cool! Those were my uniforms. Sheldon wrote Legionnaire and was supposed to direct it, but then Jean-Claude got someone else. Thndrcougarfalcnbird. How much of the character's personality is true to the individual who lived those events? People don't really know that about Lee, but he had one leg shorter than the other. Jean-Claude saw Menahem on the street, did a U-Turn and said, "Hey Menahem, remember me? For you, I mean.Sheldon Lettich: Oh yeah, oh absolutely. There's a birth certificate and a death certificate for him. Leon hired me to write a script, which Menahem ended up liking. 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. They'll cover Frank Dux being a real man, Van Damme's soft baby b. And we loved each other at that point.Blake Harris: So you guys were really closeFrank Dux: Yeah, this'll show you how close we were and tie back to what I was saying right before. In downtown L.A. And I go: Well, just do me a favor. And because of the braces and how the legs were locked togethera steel bar locked them togetheryou couldn't even waddle, you know? Live from Largo in L.A. they get into Samuel L. Jackson's infamous death scene, LL Cool J's relationship with his bird, Stellan Skarsgrd's new name, and how Saffron Burrows is the film's true villain. His contract was not for writing, it was for use of his name and a portion of his "real-life story." KUMITE! 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. Thus, gladiatorial combats originally possessed a sacred significance. He didn't know what to think. That was a term, from England, when they used to fight dogs. 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. howdidthisgetmade@earwolf.com Episodes The Specialist LIVE! He owes you two more movies! Jeez. What was the reaction like from Sheldon, Jean-Claude and Mark [DiSalle]?Frank Dux: They didn't care at that point. Dux's trophy from the Bahamas event was at least partially made in the San Fernando Valley. Mark was against it first, but I said, "Look, I can do a lot with this guy. And Leon was going to star in the movie, which we called The White House All Stars with the "White House" being a frat house at this college where all the football players lived. Blake Harris: What was the scripting process like for Rambo III, working with Stallone?Sheldon Lettich: He and I were pretty much on the same wavelength for that. In Etruscan society, gladiatorial games were supposed to be part of the funerary rituals honoring the dead. But yes, Idris Elba did an amazing job being the reluctant leader. 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. And on it, they didn't even spell my name correctly. How Did This Get Made is a companion to the podcastHow Did This Get MadewithPaul Scheer, Jason MantzoukasandJuneDiane Raphaelwhich focuses on movies. But if we can cut it down, I think we can sell this novel. If they'd actually served. Along with Alexander Martin.To this point, on http://frankdux.net/facts/ there is a signed declaration by Lt. How did that happen? It made its budget back just the first weekend on the west coast. 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. On May 1, 1988, just over two months after Bloodsport hit theaters, John Johnson of the L.A. Times published this editorial:NINJA: Hero or Master Fake?Others Kick Holes in Fabled Past of Woodland Hills Martial Arts TeacherAs the title suggests, the piece isn't too kind to Dux. You said "we were working on a sequel." And then there was the famous meeting between Jean-Claude and Menahem on La Cienega Boulevard. And I said, "Okay, Sheldon, you get the credits, and then when you get up to the next level, you just bring me up." And he did that to Sheldon several times. It would have been an expensive movie. And we actually got hired by Motown to write this script! Oh yeah! So my agent sent him Firebase and he responded very enthusiastically. They were flabbergasted. Actually, I should back up. 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. I buy you dinner tonight." Bloodsport: Directed by Newt Arnold. While trying to gain access into. And it's interesting because they hide that, you know? I used my Hebrew name: Benjamin Wolf. These guys, after brutally going at each other, now they were just laughing it off. Frank lost that case. I had them cut down so it would fit him because I'm a bigger guy. That movie's terrible; I'm putting it straight to video. He liked the authenticity in it and he'd heard about Tracers also. How else could you get a hold of this? In Enter the Ninja, I didn't use my real name. And that's how I ended up co-writing Rambo III with him. This was significant not only because he wrote the screenplay for Bloodsport, but also because Dux had said some unflattering things about the writer. A little bit. And I had read an article, in this magazine called M, about the French Foreign Legion. We just became friends almost immediately. Jean-Claude?Frank Dux: When we started? Especially when you believe that person is your friend.Frank Dux: Exactly. Enter the Ninja?Sheldon Lettich: No, there was no script prior to the "Bloodsport" script. So I climbed up on the ledge with him. In fact we did the casting at my apartment. We liked the fact that we were able to do something different there. In the DC Extended Universe, Robert DuBois is played by Idris Elba in the . And that's what I found out later in life. KUMITE! During the tournament, Dux battles an array of international fighters from various schools of martial arts. So I ended up writing that script for him. KUMITE! How did that come about?Sheldon Lettich: Well, it's interesting. KUMITE! It can't happen.". And that's pretty much what Double Impact isBlake Harris: I read online that you might be writing a sequel to Double Impact? The film is partly based on unverified claims made by martial artist Frank Dux. Absolutely. He wants to find a more peaceful path. During that time, I gave Jean-Claude some odd jobs. And tears started to form in my eyes. I really screwed up. I don't know if they ever approached Michael Dudikoff, but basically the producers were in a quandary as to who to cast. I believe that story is 100% true, because Michel Qissi was with him and he told me the same story. My body's fully developed, I jumped up like a bean sprout, and now I was eyeball to eyeball with Moore, who this time fought the Unstoppable Mike Stone at Long Beach. 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. Bloodsport wasn't an Oscar-worthy film in any manner (the original cut was deemed unwatchable and a re-edit was completed before release), but Van Damme's stoic charisma and the memorable. One of the only places where we initially differed was with the entry point. And then Troutman gets captured by the Russians and Rambo's feeling guilt because he let his buddy down. I turned over the programs from the fights that we had in those days. Early on, Johnson describes him as "a bright but undistinguished young man who, using cleverness and chutzpah, recreated himself as a super-hero a decade ago, painstakingly authenticating his new persona with military medals, trophies and newspaper clippings of questionable origins. And the two of them, they didn't talk about it, but they'd basically bicker through their agents because neither one wanted to be the criminal who gets killed at the end. The truth. That's what they always show on the history channel, those two to the head. But the only guy in the world who could kill Jean-Claude with his permission is Sylvester Stallone. By this time we knew that Frank was full of baloney with a lot of the stuff that he was saying about his life. And of course he says he did (but he didn't). A lot of it was based on the recollections of my friend Kurt Taylor, who I wrote the script with. Nobody clapped or wanted to have their picture taken with you. Kurt had played football at Prairie View College in the 60's. So cool, in fact, that now we have a professional basketball team called The Raptors and no one raised an eyebrow about why a team from Tornoto, Canada would be named that. And he was just a different person. I thought it was Pasadena, but everyone's told me it was Long Beach. I didn't see it coming. We thought he was f***ing great. So to compensate, they put me in these metal boots. It was awarded the Drama-Logue Critics' Award for Direction and the Los Angeles Drama Critics' Award for Ensemble Performance. I never accused the military of doing it. 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 mean, he couldn't do a throw. This was all very, very low budget. And then they had me give up my net points on the film.Blake Harris: Really?Frank Dux: Yeah, for Jean-Claude to have his career, I gave up my net points. I said, "Real Kumite fighters, we fight here. He threw a ridge-hand strike and he swept him at the same time. Can you tell me about writing Enter The Ninja? In this video, I speak with the Dan. Not go into the past. The character is initially depicted as a vengeful veteran of the Vietnam War, angry at the people of Metropolis for their "senseless . So he goes there on his own to rescue Troutman, and that pretty much became the movie.Blake Harris: That's a good point. Plus, we hear LL Cool J's hip-hop prayer and the best . This thingwhatever it was calledit was really cool and it would be a cool way to meet chicks.Blake Harris: And how did you go from passively enjoying these things to actual participating and learning how to fight?Frank Dux: I guess one of the things that helped push me in that direction was that I befriended a kid named Grant who had it far worse than myself. Over the show's decade-long run, they've covered a lot of. But it was interesting because he's fighting Mike Stone and Mike Stone had reportedly 91 wins. So flash forward ten years and I still had this notion of doing a film about the classic era of French Foreign Legion movie. Ian Fleming based his characters on real people. So when he heard that there was another movie with Van Dammeand this time Van Damme was starring in itSammy was totally enthusiastic. Which was Mike's move. I was there at every meeting and, of course, they were getting all the ideas out of me. 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. And at one of these construction sites, there was a guy doing martial arts. A lot of those shots came from the camera angles I had been directing. Do you see what I'm saying? That was really my very first entry into the Writer's Guild.Blake Harris: Moving up the ranksSheldon Lettich: Yeah, and around this time I wrote a Vietnam screenplay that got me my first agent. I had my then-fianc back in the United States get all the uniforms for them. I always try to look for the best in people. You spent almost four years in the U.S. Marine Corps, is that correct?Sheldon Lettich: Yeah, I served as a radio operator in South Vietnam and then later with 1st Force Reconnaissance Company based at Camp Pendleton, California.Blake Harris: So how did you go about making that enormous transition from wartime soldier to Hollywood writer?Sheldon Lettich: Well, surprisingly enough, my first success came in the theater. He tells one where he says he met Menahem Golan [a producer on Bloodsport] at a restaurant and [Van Damme] threw out his legs and blah blah blah. "But I will say this," Lettich continued. They were supposed to present the supposed evidence that said things didn't exist. How blindsided were you when the piece came out?Frank Dux: Well, there was nothing I could do. The 20 episodes of How Did This Get Made listed below offer a taste of the world that the hosts have built. In exchange for dropping the suit, they offered me the rights to The Corsican Brothers, which I readily agreed to because, by then, Jean-Claude was trying to get a project set up with Moshe Diamant. Sadly not at all. He actually challenged me to a fight. So I watched that happen and then I watched Victor Moore fight Chuck Norris.Blake Harris: Moore fought Bruce Lee and then Chuck Norris? The concept of gladiatorial games has its roots in the Etruscans, the predecessors of the Romans. 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. 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. Nowadays it's all kind of clich. Give me a shot with him." Brought his wife with him and we just hit it off, right from the getgo. It sold well at the box office, grossing $65 million on a budget of $1.5-2.3 million. I remember us going back to his apartment and the thing was entirely full.Blake Harris: Did Menahem change his tune about Jean-Claude?Sheldon Lettich: Well, yes and no. He said, "To be the best, you've gotta fight the best, kid." And he turns to me and he says: "You know, Frankie, I signed a five-picture deal. And not only did More beat Lee, but he actually let him score one. 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. Enjoy, and please share and subscribe! And they did. They didn't know what to do, but they thought they'd give me a call. That picture with my hands crossed, you can see Bloodsport in the background. What was he like?Frank Dux: He was wonderful. Give me your best shot. Then all of the sudden I got hit in the face with a Black Dragon shirt, and that's how I became the youngest Black Dragon in the history of the Black Dragons.Blake Harris: That's unbelievable. It was horrible. And then he did a kick that missed his face by like two inches. "Blake Harris: That's great. We did not use CGI, that was only just starting to become popular, so we had to do everything optically. No, never. Actor & comedian Paul Scheer and film critic Amy Nicholson want your advice as they make the ultimate list of the greatest movies . They did sequels and I've never gotten paid for them when I was supposed to. "Bloodsport" follows Frank Dux, an American martial artist serving in the military, who decides to leave the army to compete in a martial arts tournament in Hong Kong where fights to the death can occur. I'm not talking our toes are over the edge. I told Menahem that the new cut of Bloodsport was great and I thought it was going to do really well. 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. You're craaaaaaazy." I gotta tell you: Seeing it years later, I didn't realize how good it was. That it would be helpful and therapeutic.Blake Harris: And was it? Jean-Claude's character comes to the US to help out his brother, not with anything like revenge or violence on his mind. "Well, can I show you what I've learned since you taught me?" Bloodsport (original trailer 720p en) Watch on 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,. Menahem still thought it was a piece of s***.Blake Harris: How come?Sheldon Lettich: Well, I think this might answer your question. And so he told Menahem, "Sell it to me and I'll release it theatrically." Stallone's original idea was that [Colonel Sam] Trautman comes to Rambo and says something like: hey, I got a mission for you in Afghanistan. This is like 1979 and he wanted to put together some kind of theatrical piece about Vietnam veterans. Because this is what happened next Sheldon Lettich: So they sent me to Paris and Corsica to do research and I re-wrote The Corsican Brothers, which I was going to direct. We encountered a few phonies, but eventually we put together a core group. I blame the success of Jurassic Park for this movie. He did everything to basically poison the well with Jean-Claude and everybody I worked with. And if somebody tells me they were in Vietnam, and in the Marine Corps, I'll believe them. And the CIA and everyone is obligated to tell you? Especially when it comes to the military. "Blake Harris: So what eventually changed Menahem's mind? So there would be one shot where you would see both brothers in the same shot, kind of talking to one another and then all the other shots were either close-ups or over-the-shoulders done with a double. The truth of the matter is that Jean-Claude had done a film called No Retreat, No Surrender. It was "Dukes." Start Free Trial. In 1980, Frank Dux first came into the public eye via an article in the November issue of Black Belt magazine. But when we found out Frank Dux was going to be there, we realized that this could go very, very bad, very quickly. It's not something that I'm interested in, but good luck." Now, Frank did contribute a number of ideas to the Bloodsport script, but he claimed these were "life events" that actually happened to him, not fiction. He didn't like it. AVianes. It's hard to call the young Van Damme's performance "good" in any traditional sense of the word, but . In fact, I was born with my foot so pigeon-toed that it actually went backwards; my foot, it could go 180 degrees the other way. I wasn't an actor, but I was a writer, so I got in touch with John and we hit it off. Shortly after running our last piece, How Did This Get Made: A Conversation with Frank Dux, the Real-Life Inspiration for Bloodsport, I was put in touch with Sheldon Lettich. Like I'm a kook because he comes out of a James Bond movie: You Only Live Twice. How Did This Get Made is a companion to the podcastHow Did This Get MadewithPaul Scheer, Jason MantzoukasandJuneDiane Raphaelwhich focuses on movies. She loved it. I literally wrote a good majority of that script with Sheldon, but I never got credit for it. It was also seen by Viacom. And he just laughed and said, "Come on, let me show you this house. U.S. soldier Frank Dux (Jean-Claude Van Damme) has come to Hong Kong to be accepted into the Kumite, a highly secret and extremely violent martial-arts competition. He would punch the bricks, breaking them apart. LIVE from Largo in Los Angeles, Nicole Byer of Party Over Here joins Paul and Jason to discuss the cult 1988 Jean-Claude Van Damme martial-arts film Bloodsport. And I gotta give him credit there. Three months later, it formally opened at the Odyssey Theatre in Los Angeles to rave reviews. They were both pregnant at the same time. Please note as always his opinions, recollections and claims are his own, and not necessarily fact. As a result, he's spent the past 28 years dealing with perpetual allegations of being a fake and a fraud. Well, about the only thing they showed was a trophy receipt.Blake Harris: Which they claimed was evidence that the trophy you won was "at least partially made in the San Fernando Valley? Sheldon Lettich: In Menahem's defense, I saw the first cutwe all the saw first cutand it was really bad. It's risk free with Nord's 30 day money-back guarantee! And here's the thing that gets me about how stupid people are. So the play was groundbreaking in some ways. But Michael Dudikoff is like 6'2," and the problem was they wanted to film in Asia. And I'd imitate him.Blake Harris: Do you remember how old you were around this time?Frank Dux: I was 11 years old. With Jean-Claude Van Damme, Donald Gibb, Leah Ayres, Norman Burton. 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 fact, we explored Post Traumatic Stress in the play, but the term PTSD had not even been coined yet. Okay? John had convinced somebody there that doing this play was a good idea for veterans. And it misrepresents my responses. This regular featureis written byBlake J. Harris, who you might know as the writer ofthe bookConsole Wars, soon to be a motion pictureproduced bySeth RogenandEvan Goldberg. Or any agent's records? I need to tell you about something that happened first. Told that the tournament was a secret, he said: "We would know. 5 years ago. LIVE from Largo in Los Angeles, Nicole Byer of Party Over Here joins Paul and Jason to discuss the cult 1988 Jean-Claude Van Damme martial-arts film Bloodsport. ).Blake Harris: That's great. 20th Century Fox was high on Only the Strong and we all kind of expected that movie to do better than it did. If it's Stallone: no problem, he can kill me on screen at the end.Blake Harris: The ultimate complimentSheldon Lettich: Ha, yes.Blake Harris: Speaking of Jean-Claude, I imagine that you first met him around this time. Rambo was always a reluctant badass.Sheldon Lettich: Yeah, you've really gotta push him to fight. [laughing] Those old 80s trailers, that's what they'd say over and over again. And, at that lunch, Mark agreed and hired me to write the script for Bloodsport.Blake Harris: Frank mentioned he already had a script? 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. I actually got to take my mother for the first time to see the film. And I had to find a way for him to kind of come back in and get his mind out of it. For me, martial arts is just a release. That's the thing. So we pitched him Legionnaire, gave him the treatment and Ed went for it.Blake Harris: You mentioned that Columbia passed on Legionnaire because it didn't "stick with the Van Damme formula." I wasn't a bitter person. It was definitely a therapeutic experience for everyone involved with the play. 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. There had been a few other plays dealing with the military and Vietnam at the time, but they weren't written by those who had actually been there. Bloodsport hospitalizing Superman was lifted directly from his first comic book appearance. Everywhere else in my life I'm like a duck out of water, but put me in that arena and I just swim. Sheldon Lettich: Yeah. And Rambo says [putting on a thick Stallone impression]: let me just go get my gear. The red one, the blue one, the black one. Blake Harris: The Black Belt article got a lot of attention and certainly must have piqued the interest of some folks in Hollywood. And here comes Moore, and Moore drops him in under 30 seconds. So you know what that means. In honor of How Did This Get Made?'s #Bloodsport episode, we made this #supercut of Jean-Claude Van Damme's super #butt! What I said to them [the LA Times] was that the only way you could get a hold of my records was to go to Federal Intelligence Court. You know, there's a certain romanticism to that. What was all this camaraderie about? All of this was prior to Bloodsport. The piece, entitled "Kumite: A Learning Experience," was written by editor John Stewart and begins with the following note: From time to time, Black Belt learns of unusual events or occurrences in the martial arts; events thateither because of their nature or because they occurred in the distant pastcannot be easily verified. I'll show you a fighter and I'll fight you on the roof of the hotel!" So these kids kind of grew up together. Why was that the case?Sheldon Lettich: Because Menahem thought it was terrible. Frank and I did write a couple of scripts together, and he received credit on both of them. With Bloodsport and Deadshot picking up each other weapons in battle. I kid you not.Blake Harris: So you weren't some kind of jiujutsu prodigy?Frank Dux: Not at all. In the end, his psyche was broken when Jimmy Olsen brought his brother onto the scene. Blake Harris: So we know how Sheldon entered the picture, but how does Jean-Claude Van Damme become involved with Bloodsport?Frank Dux: Oh, Jean-Claude tells this crazy story. But the truth is, I had already written a script called Enter the Ninja. It was called Firebase and was basically Zulu in Vietnam; about a small disparate group forced together on a Firebase that gets attacked by an overwhelming number of North Vietnamese. He's a producer, he's got like 50 films under his belt. California, Oregon and Washington. Mr. Dux and I met in Tegucigalpal, Honduras, in the summer of 1985, where I was being briefed by Dux and other intelligence operatives on military targets within Nicaragua. 4. She said, "Wait a minute, I'll be right back" and then comes in with the same magazine. During my intelligence career, I have met with and been introduced to many covert operatives, whose existence has often been officially denied by the government agencies that these parties have been associated with. He had a karate background. He's been carrying on like that for years and years. So he pitched me the story for Kickboxer and I said, "Well, if you're looking for a martial arts film, I've got one of my own that I think you might likeBloodsport." joins Paul, June, and Jason to break down the 1994 Sly Stallone & Sharon Stone thriller The Specialist, a movie that argues bombs are more precise weapons than guns. You know what I mean? Armed with a gun that fires Kryptonite needles, Bloodsport nearly succeeded in his mission to eliminate the Man of Steel, but ultimately failed. At one point it was the second most profitable article they'd ever written. We were calling it "Delayed Stress." Find ratings and reviews for the newest movie and TV shows. 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