EXCLUSIVE: Jim Belushi and Christina Ochoa have joined Canadian director and action specialist James Mark in deadly combat drama Fight another dayas production will continue on-site in the greater Toronto area until early 2023.
The pair join previously announced cast members Martin Kove, Kevin Nash and Eric Johnson, as well as UFC legends Ken Shamrock and Chuck “the Iceman” Liddell.
Johnson (Fifty shades darker, viking) stars as hardened cop Ryan Taylor, who is transported to a dystopian future where he is forced to enter a deadly fighting tournament to return to his past.
Belushi plays a low-level security officer who plans to retire if he decides to help animal kingdom plays Ochoa’s character Isabell with her plan to get Ryan back.
The project is produced by Bruno Marino (stuck, Uncharted: the Fan Film) at the film and television company High Star Entertainment with Mark’s Kemodo Entertainment.
Marino said Ochoa would be a “welcome addition to the cast,” adding that the role needed someone “who could be her own in the midst of a group of gladiators.”
This film is the fourth producer/director collaboration between Marino and Kemodo’s respective companies, High Star Entertainment and Kemodo Entertainment.
Paris-based distribution company WTFilms will handle the international distribution of the production, having previously handled it Look overme and strengthen.
Writer: Melanie Goodfellow
Source: Deadline
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