Mulcahy to helm JCVD-Vinnie Jones actioner ‘Weapon’

Jean-Claude Van Damme will be teaming up with Vinnie Jones to portray rival assassins who form an uneasy alliance in WEAPON, a new film from Flagship Films and Russell Mulcahy, the director of RESIDENT EVIL: EXTINCTION and upcoming Thomas Jane crime actioner GIVE ‘EM HELL, MALONE.

Jones, a former English footballer who first came to fame as a gangster in Guy Ritchie’s LOCK, STOCK AND TWO SMOKING BARRELS, will play a master sharpshooter who joins forces with a knife expert (Van Damme) to take take down the head of a drug cartel.

The film will be produced by Flagship founders Alison Semenza (SUBMERGED) and Todd Moyer (TIME COP). Production is set to begin in August in Vancouver.

Van Damme’s semi-biographical film JCVD was recently on DVD. He will next be appearing in two films, UNIVERSAL SOLDIERS: THE NEXT GENERATION and his self-directed thriller THE EAGLE PATH.

Source: The Hollywood Reporter