63 years and 65 action movies: this legendary actor returns with a Taken-style film, the trailer of which offers

Jean-Claude Van Damme is back in action! After starring opposite Alban Ivanov in the Netflix action comedy The Last Mercenary (2021) and meeting Kev Adams on the set of Hers for Prime Video (2021), the 63-year-old actor is back in action.

In Darkness of Man, the legendary Belgian actor plays Russell Hatch, a former Interpol agent with a troubled past. The latter has to return to work when a turf war breaks out and Jaden, the young man he was responsible for protecting, is kidnapped. Willing to make good on his promise, Hatch begins a guerilla war to find Jaden.

A pitch worthy of a new Taken Opus…

A director accustomed to the genre

The feature film also stars Emerson Meaney, Kristana Loken, Andrei Ivchenko, Shannen Doherty, Peter Jay and Spencer Breslin. The action film is directed by genre regular James Cullen Bresak, who has already worked on the B-series action films Hot Seat with Mel Gibson and Kevin Dillon, Castle with Bruce Willis and Chad Michael Murray and Outlaw Stephen. Seagal.

No release date has been announced in France The darkness of manwhich will be released on VOD in the US on May 21.

JCVD projects

Jean Claude Van Damme Next up is Kickboxer: Armageddon, a remake of the 1989 cult film Kickboxer. He will also team up with David Charhon, director of The Last Mercenary, for the action comedy The Gardener, in which he will share the poster. With Michael Yoon, Navel Madan and Kaari (soon to be available on Prime Video).

Although he travels less, Jean-Claude Van Damme does not seem close to retirement, contrary to his February 2022 announcement.