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Command Performance (2008)

directed by Dolph Lundgren

filming

 


plot summary
A Moscow charity concert turns bloody when armed extortionists take the head liner American pop-star Venus and the Russian President with his family hostage. Help is on the way when the drummer of a heavy metal warm-up band, an ex-bad ass biker played by Lundgren, and a young Russian F.S.B. agent team up to fight back. But our two heroes are seriously outnumbered and things aren’t as simple as they appear when old ghosts from the Soviet Union appear to haunt the present in this fast paced [action thriller].
- from Nu Image website

director/cast
 
Dolph Lundgren Director
Dolph Lundgren Joe Reynolds
Melissa Smith Venus
Eric Roberts ...
Hristo Shopov President Petrov

genre Action
budget N/A
production co(s) Nu Image
location(s) Sofia, Bulgaria / Moscow, Russia
producers Les Weldon, Danny Lerner
writers Dolph Lundgren / Steve Latshaw

web links
Internet Movie Database - full details
Nu Image - production company

news & updates

July 2008
Busy on Isaac Florentine's "Ninja", director of photography Ross Clarkson has to withdraw from the project in favor of another Australian, Marc Windon.

Ida Lundgren (Dolph's elder daughter) is to play one of the Russian president's daughters.

May 27th, 2008
"I'm planning a film we're gonna shoot here in august and it takes place during a rock concert, so I'm player a drummer so I'm my hair is getting longer, I have some tatooes on the arms..."
"some bad guys take over the arena, and the Russian president 's there with his two daughters, and the drummer turns out to be a bad ass, just to save the day..."
"Maybe Eric Roberts [...] I don't know him personally so we deal with his agent [...] I thought we'd look good together..."
from Bulgarian TV show

May 15th, 2008
"I'm working on casting COMMAND PERFORMANCE and am going to Sofia next week to get started with the storyboard artist and the budgeting. We plan to be in full pre-production mid-June, through July and start shooting beginning of August." email from Dolph Lundgren

April 23, 2008
The script is being rewritten. Tentative start date is second week of August.

March 27, 2008
Dolph Lundgren set for 'Command'
By Borys Kit

"Dolph Lundgren will star in and direct Millennium/Nu Image's "Command Performance," an action thriller he co-wrote with Stave Latshaw.

[...]

Lundgren describes "Command" as " 'Die Hard' at a rock concert," with the story focusing on a drummer for the warm-up band of a big American performer giving a concert for the Russian premier. Naturally, the bad guys break up the show. And just as naturally, the drummer is an ex-Marine.

"I got the idea from Madonna," Lundgren said. "She did a concert for (Russian President Vladimir) Putin a few years ago."

Lundgren will not be using a stunt double for the truly complicated scenes, including the percussion sequences. "I used to play when I was a kid. Now I play at wrap parties after I've had a few tequila shots," he said with a laugh. "It'll be fun."

"Command" is scheduled to shoot in Moscow and at Nu Image-owned Bulgarian studio Nu Boyana in the summer." from Hollywood Reporter

February 2008
"This is his fourth film in Bulgaria and he's readying to direct-star in another, "Command Performance" with exteriors in Moscow. "It's 'Die Hard' in a rock concert," he says. Lundgren plays the band's drummer." from Army Archerd

NU IMAGE presents a HOEGER HUMAN SERVICE PERSONAL MEDIEN GmbH production a DOLPH LUNDGREN film DOLPH LUNDGREN "COMMAND PERFORMANCE" ERIC ROBERTS casting MARIANA STANISHEVA production designer CARLOS DA SILVA editor KATE HICKEY director of photography MARC WINDON executive producers JACK GILARDI Jr BOAZ DAVIDSON AVI LERNER DANNY DIMBORT TREVOR SHORT produced by ANTON HOEGER DANNY LERNER LES WELDON written by STEVE LATSHAW & DOLPH LUNDGREN directed by DOLPH LUNDGREN

projects links
Action In The Red Sea / Alien Agent / The Amber Room / Beowulf / Brazilian project / Captured / Code Blue / Command Performance / The Controller / Cover Up 2 / Dark Angel 2 / Double Or Nothing / Duke Nukem / Frogs For Snakes / Gentle Giant / Icarus / Inside Man Out / Interstate 10 / It Waits / Ivory City / Le Tigre / Legion / Masters Of The Universe 2 / Meltdown / Nightclubbing / The Peacekeeper 2 / Pit Bulls / The Punisher 2 / R.P.M. / Red Dawn / Red Scorpion 2 / Revenge / Rewind / Rocky VI / Running Man / The Soul Of Caleb Lee / Starlight Murders / Still The Drums / Straight Blast / The Threat / Tokyo Suckerpunch / Trooper / Tumbling Dice / Unknown Project / Vampires / Venom / Warrant / The Watchmen / Swedish Projects /

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