Hans Lundgren ( Swedish: Ã, ['d? lf' l? ndgre: n] Ã, ( listen ) born November 3, 1957) is known professionally as Dolph Lundgren , is Swedish actor, director, screenwriter, producer, and martial artist.
Lundgren received a degree in chemical engineering from the Royal Institute of Technology in the early 1980s and a master's degree in chemical engineering from the University of Sydney in 1982. He held the rank of the 3rd black belt and in Kyokushin. karate and European champions in 1980-81. While in Sydney, he became the guardian of the Jamaican singer, Grace Jones, and started a relationship with him. He received a Fulbright scholarship to MIT and moved to Boston. Jones convinced him to leave the university and move to New York City to be with him and start acting, where, after a short stint as a model and bouncer at Manhattan nightclub The Limelight, Lundgren got a small debut role as a KGB henchman in the James Bond movie > A View to a Kill , where Jones starred.
Lundgren's breakthrough came in 1985, when he starred in Rocky IV as dominating Soviet boxer, Ivan Drago. Since then, he has starred in over 40 films, almost all in the genre of action. He describes He-Man in the science fantasy movie 1987 Masters of the Universe and Frank Castle in 1989 The Punisher . In the early 1990's, he also appeared in movies like Dark Angel (1990), Universal Soldier (1992), Joshua Tree < 1993), Johnny Mnemonic (1995), and Blackjack (1998). In 2004, he directed his first movie, The Defender , and then directed The Mechanik (2005), Missionary Man (2007), Command Performance (2009), and Icarus (2010), as well as starring the last one.
After a long spell appearing in live-to-video movies since 1995, Lundgren returned to Hollywood in 2010 with Gunner Jensen in The Expendables, alongside Sylvester Stallone and the all-action character. He replicated his role in The Expendables 2 (2012) and The Expendables 3 (2014). Also in 2014, he starred in Skin Trade , an action thriller about human trafficking he wrote and produced. The film marks his third collaboration with Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, two earlier being the Showdown in Little Tokyo (1991) and Bridge of Dragons (1999). He will repeat his role as Gunner Jensen at The Expendables 4 (2019), and his role Rocky IV from Ivan Drago in the upcoming sequel for Creed . She appeared in Sharknado 5, Global Swarming (2017), playing the protagonist son of Gil as an adult.
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Hans Lundgren was born on November 3, 1957 in SpÃÆ'n nga, son of Sigrid Birgitta (n), a language teacher, and Karl Johan Hugo Lundgren, an engineer and economist for the Swedish government. He lived in SpÃÂnga nga until the age of 13, when he moved to his grandparents' house in Nyland, ÃÆ'â € |ermanland. Some false sources state 1959 as the year of his birth, but Lundgren himself confirmed him in 1957. He had two sisters and an older brother; he grew up in a Lutheran church. Lundgren claims his father is physically abusive and vent his annoyance on his wife and eldest son. He has stated that, during his tirade, his father would call him a "loser," who motivated him later as he grew more ambitious to prove himself. But he also said, "I still love my dad, no matter what happens, there are many things about him that I still admire.As a child, I may be too much like him, very stubborn - maybe that he can not deal with. " He has mentioned his troubled relationship with his father as the reason he developed a desire to participate in severe contact sports such as boxing and karate.
Lundgren says that, as a child, he feels insecure and suffers from allergies, describing himself as a "dwarf". He showed interest in playing drums and has aspirations to become a rock star. At the age of seven, he tried judo and G? J? -ry? He took Kyokushin karate at the age of 10, and started lifting weights as a teenager. Lundgren stated that "My dad always told me that if I wanted to make something special with my life, I had to go to America." After graduating from high school with straight As, he spent some time in the United States in the 1970s with various academic scholarships, studying chemical engineering at Washington State University and Clemson University. He studied chemical engineering for a year at Washington State University, before serving his one year military service at the Swedish Marine Corps at Amphibious Ranger School. In the late 1970s, he enrolled at the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm and graduated with a degree in chemical engineering. The name "Dolph" comes from a distant relative on his mother's side.
In the middle of his years of study, Lundgren honed his karate skills by practicing hard in the dojo for five years, achieving the rank of the 2nd black belt and in Kyokushin in 1978. He captained the Swedish karate team of Kyokushin, and was a challenger which was tough in the 1979 World Open Tournament (arranged by the Kyokushin Karate Organization) when he was just a green belt. He won the European Championships in 1980 and 1981, and the heavyweight tournament in Australia in 1982. In 1982, Lundgren graduated with a master's degree in chemical engineering from the University of Sydney. While in Sydney, he made a living as a bouncer in a nightclub in the famous King's Cross area.
Lundgren was awarded the Fulbright Scholarship to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1983. However, as he prepared to move to Boston, he was seen at a nightclub where he worked in Sydney and was hired by Grace Jones as a bodyguard, and both became lovers. Their relationship developed dramatically, and he moved with him to New York City. While living with Jones at his apartment in New York City, Lundgren experimented with modeling at Zoli Agency but was described as "a bit too tall and muscular for a model size 40". He made a living as a bouncer at Manhattan nightclub, The Limelight; housed in the former Episcopal Church of the Lord's Supper, working with Chazz Palminteri. During the day, he studied dramas at the Warren Robertson Theater Workshop and said that "my time in New York City opened my teenage eyes in Sweden to many different people and lifestyles, especially in the arts, I hang out with Andy Warhol., Keith Haring, Faith and Steve Rubell, danced at Studio 54, and studied acting with Andie MacDowell and Tom Hulce. "Friends told him that he should be in the film. He then stopped studying at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology after two weeks to pursue acting.
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Careers
1980s
On the James Bond film set A View to a Kill, Jones suggested that he try to part in the movie, which led to his movie debut playing a very small role of a suitable KGB. henchman named Venz. In the film, Lundgren appears in a scene where General Gogol KGB (Walter Gotell) confronts Max Zorin (Christopher Walken) about leaving the KGB, in a racetrack and ends with a small fights in which the character Lundgren, Venz, shows a gun in Zorin. Roger Moore, in his last appearance as James Bond, once said, "Dolph is bigger than Denmark". Lundgren found the entertainment business more interesting and useful than chemical engineering, so he decided to pursue a career in the acting world despite having no formal training. Upon learning that Sylvester Stallone was looking for a forced fighter to play Ivan Drago in Rocky IV (1985), Lundgren sent a video and a picture of him to Stallone's distant contact, finally reaching him. Lundgren tried the role, but as he himself said, he was initially rejected because he was too tall.
However, he eventually defeated 5,000 other candidates to land his escape role against Stallone, Carl Weathers, and Brigitte Nielsen. To improve his physical and athletic abilities, he trained intensely in bodybuilding and boxing for five months before the film was taken. Lundgren said, "We are training six days a week - weighing in the morning for about an hour, then boxing in the afternoon We do a split chest and back one day and then our shoulders, legs and hands next. , practicing battle choreography, and doing a briefcase and abs. "Weighed 235 pounds (107 kg) - 245 pounds (111 kg) during filming, but in the film he was charged 261 pounds (118 kg); one of the publishers said of Drago, "He's a giant machine fighting mercilessly, the best that science and Soviet medicine can create." The line of his character "If he dies, he dies" and "I must destroy you" is one of the most famous of the series Rocky , and is often quoted in popular culture. In an interview, Sylvester Stallone said, "During Rocky IV [filming], Dolph has hit me so hard, I have swelled around the heart and had to stay in intensive care at St. John's Hospital for four day." Lundgren then fought in a real boxing match against former UFC fighter Oleg Taktarov, and lost by decision. Lundgren has highlighted the premiere of Rocky IV in Westwood Movie Theater as a life-changing moment, remarking, "I went to Westwood cinema as Grace Jones's girlfriend and walked out ninety minutes later as movie star Dolph Lundgren. surprised for years from the confusing and frightening experience of being a student athlete from little Sweden who suddenly had to undergo a new action star persona. "
Lundgren received his first leading role as the mighty He-Man at the Masters of the Universe (1987), based on popular children's toys and cartoons. He starred alongside Frank Langella, Meg Foster, Chelsea Field, Billy Barty and Courteney Cox. Lundgren weighed his weight all the time during filming at 250 pounds (110 kg). This film is a critical failure and is considered too harsh for family photos. It's called a "flop" by Variety magazine, and has a "rotten" rating of 13% at Rotten Tomatoes. Lundgren was criticized for being too wooden as a leading man, and was dismissed as "a shiny fantasy starring Dolph Lundgren with one syllable."
One writer explains why Lundgren will never succeed as a leading actor in Hollywood, "Lundgren is limited by the size and delivery of dead pans: although often compared to Arnold, he has fewer reaches." Lundgren released a training video on VHS in 1987 called Maximum Potential .
He then starred in Joseph Zito's Red Scorpion in 1989, in the presence of M. Emmet Walsh, Al White, T. P. McKenna and Carmen Argenziano. The plot centered on the character of Lundgren, Nikolai, a Soviet-trained KGB Spetsnaz agent sent to an African country where Soviet troops, Czechoslovakia and Cuba supported the government's struggle against the anti-communist rebel movement. Nikolai was ordered to kill the leader of the movement, but eventually changed positions. The film is partly shot in Namibia and it is claimed that Grace Jones joined him during production in Swakopmund, insisting on staying in a $ 3000 villa per month, although his girlfriend at the time was reported to be Paula Barbieri. The film is less acceptable and has an 11% rating of "rotten" in Rotten Tomatoes. Stephen Holden of The New York Times said, "Dolph Lundgren is a real star of Red Scorpion, an action-adventure movie in the fictitious Mombaka African country. Filmed from below so someone has the sense of peeking at a large kinetic statue, her glittering body, which during this film experienced various tortures, is the main visual focus of the film every time the action slows down, and since Mr. Lundgren has remained stone-faced, rarely speaks except to issue commands in monotone hesitantly, his up and down chest actually communicates more emotion than his murmuring lips. "
Lundgren later starred in Marvel Comics, Frank Castle (a.k.a. The Punisher) in the 1989 film The Punisher. The film was directed by Mark Goldblatt, with a scenario by Boaz Yakin. Although based on the Marvel Comics character, the film changes many details from the origin of the original comic book and the main characters do not use the trademark "skull". The Punisher was filmed in Sydney, Australia and also featured Louis Gossett, Jr., Jeroen Krabbà ©  ©, Kim Miyori, and Barry Otto. The film received mainly negative reviews, currently holding a 24% "foul" rating on Rotten Tomatoes. Christopher Null gave the film 1 in 5, stating the movie was "marred by a cheeseball set and special effects, a tough battle sequence, and some of the worst ever humiliating scenes." While criticizing the plot of film and acting, Time Out magazine concluded that the film was "fun, despicable, and fun".
1990s
1990-1994
In 1990, Lundgren starred in the sci-fi sci-fi movie Craig R. Baxley (also known as Dark Angel ) opposite Brian Benben, Betsy Brantley, Matthias Hues and Jay Rinse. Lundgren plays Jack Caine, a tough Houston policeman with inner sensibility, who does not allow the police procedural rules to prevent him from pursuing his mission to wipe out the White Boys, a group of white-collar merchants who killed his colleagues when he was attacked by a supermarket robbery. Lundgren said of his role, "What makes me interested in Dark Angel is that I can do more than just action, some romance, some comedy, some dramas, I actually have some smart dialogue in this one. says "Universe (1987) or Dark Angel (1990), suggests that nature and its hair stylist (Lundgren) have been perfectly suited to the genetically designed baddie roles of the Nazis."
In 1991, Lundgren starred in the action movie Manny Coto Cover Up versus Louis Gossett Jr. Lundgren describes Mike Anderson, a tough American journalist and US Marine veteran who finds his own life in danger after stumbling across politics covering up Middle East terrorist plans to release poisonous gas and kill thousands of people. The main terrorist group in the film is the Black October fiction group, referring to Black September. The film is taken in Israel and Lundgren lives in the famous King David Hotel.
Although the film is not a huge success, former Research Fellow at the Australian National Film & amp; Robert Cettl, in his 2009 book Terrorism in American cinema: an analytical filmography 1960-2008 argues that the film reveals a worrisome realist insight into Eastern-Middle Eastern politics and terrorism since 2000- with al-Qaeda-esque terrorist organizations and conspiracy theories that some believe the US government uses the Middle East as a cover.
Then in 1991, Lundgren appeared in the martial arts action film Showdown in Little Tokyo across Brandon Lee, Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa and Tia Carrere. Lundgren plays a police sergeant named Kenner who works in Little Tokyo, Los Angeles who partnered with Johnny Murata (Lee), a Japanese American sent to infiltrate a new Japanese drug gang operation called the Iron Claw producing lethal methamphetamine while using local brewery and clubs night as front for operation. Along the way, Kenner discovers that Yoshida (Tagawa), the head of a drug gang, is a Yakuza member who kills his parents in front of him as a youngster in Japan and his case becomes violent and personal. The film received negative acceptance from critics and was criticized for its violence; Vincent Canby of the New York Times described it as "cruel, but lacking spirit." Variety writes "Lundgren can hold his own boss with other leaders as an actor and can be easily marketed by Van Damme if he devotes much attention to quality control as he does to pectoral developments." David J. Fox of the Los Angeles Times, however, described the film as a "class act".
In 1992, Lundgren starred in one of the biggest grossing films of the year in a science fiction action image Universal Soldier directed by Roland Emmerich. Lundgren (as Sergeant Andrew Scott) and Jean-Claude Van Damme (like Luc Deveraux) served as US soldiers during the Vietnam War sent to secure a village against North Vietnamese troops. But they end up firing at each other after Devereaux discovers that Scott has gone mad and has been forced to chop up villagers and mutilate their ears barbaricly, take an innocent girl and boys hostage. They were then revived in a secret Army project along with a large group of soldiers who had been previously killed and sent on missions as GR cooperatives. At the 1992 Cannes Film Festival, Van Damme and Lundgren engaged in an almost physically changing oral exchange when the two men pushed each other only to be separated, but believed to be just a publicity stunt. Universal Soldier opened in theaters on July 10, 1992, a moderate success domestically with $ 36,299,898 in US ticket sales, but a large blockbuster worldwide, generating over $ 65 million overseas, which resulting in a total of $ 102 million film worldwide, with a $ 23 million budget. Despite being a box office hit however, it was not well received; the main critics rejected the film as a clone of Terminator 2 . Film critic Roger Ebert said, "it should be selfless enough to play boys who have to fight for the whole movie while swapping idiot tribes one", including in his book hate, hate, hate this movie .
In 1993, Lundgren starred versus Kristian Alfonso and George Segal at Joshua Tree , directed by BAFTA acrobat coordinator Vic Armstrong. Lundgren plays Wellman Anthony Santee, a former race car racer who has transported exotic stolen cars with his friend Eddie Turner (Ken Foree). One day he was framed by Frank Severance (Segal) police for the murder of a highway patrolman, also killed his friend Eddie. Santee was sent to prison after recovering in a prison hospital, but escaped during the transfer and took a female hostage named Rita Marrick (Alfonso) at a gas station, not suspecting that he was a policeman. In an escape from the law, involving exotic cars and desert landscapes, Santee must prove her innocence and prove that Severance is guilty of involvement in car circles and for murder. Many films were filmed in Alabama Hills in the Sierra Nevada and desert Joshua Tree National Park in southeastern California.
In 1994, Lundgren starred in Bruce Malmuth's
Then in 1994, Lundgren appeared in Perry Lang's Men of War (written by John Sayles) with Charlotte Lewis and BD Wong as Nick Gunar, a former Special Ops soldier who led a group of mercenaries to a treasure island. in the South China Sea. The film is mainly taken in Thailand, with Krabi and Phong Nga that make up most of the island's sights. The film was well received by some critics. One writer says "Men of War" invites the most vivid combat remembered in this strange land of recent Western history.This innovation, which links muscle image to the Vietnamese experience, is brought into contemporary muscle films others. "Another said," A good performance by the star-studded Dolph Lundgren as a mercenary assigned to "convince" a cast in this weird and disturbing movie. "
1995-1999
In 1995, Lundgren appeared in Robert Longo Johnny Mnemonic , starring Keanu Reeves. This film illustrates William Gibson's cyberpunk dystopian view of the future with a world dominated by megacorporations and with a strong East Asian influence. Reeves plays the title character, a man with a cybernetic brain implant designed to store information. Lundgren plays Karl Honig, an obsessed assassin of Jesus and a street evangelist dressed in robes and carrying a shepherd's staff. The film was recorded on location in Toronto and Montreal in 12 weeks, filling in for the film arrangements of Newark, New Jersey and Beijing. The film premiered first in Japan on April 15, 1995 and featured scores made previously by Michael Danna, different edits, and more scenes with Lundgren and Japanese star Takeshi Kitano. The overall critical response is negative; Roger Ebert said, "Johnny Mnemonic is one of the film's silly movements recently, a movie that does not deserve a nanosecond of serious analysis." The film is a financial disappointment, the best-selling $ 19,075,720 in the American domestic market against its $ 26 million budget. The robe worn by Lundgren in the film is now in the lobby of the Famous Coliseum in Mississauga, Ontario, it is his last theatrical release until 2010. Then in 1995, Lundgren appeared on Ted Kotcheff's The Shooter also known as Hidden Assassin, an action drama in which he plays Michael Dane, a US Marshall trapped in politics when he was hired to complete the assassination of a Cuban ambassador.
The Motion Picture Guide to the 1996 films says, "In peak condition, Dolph Lundgren leaps the train, kicks the bullshit out of the assailant, and handles the rifle like a pro.He is still a great athlete, but shows signs of histrionic mobility here. "
In 1996, Lundgren starred in Russell Mulcahy Silent Trigger, about a sniper (Lundgren) and a female observer (played by Gina Bellman). Lundgren plays a former Special Forces agent who joins a government secret agent (called "Agency") as a hit man. The film takes place in and around the unfinished city skyscrapers, shot in Montreal. The Motion Picture Guide to 1997 films says, "This stylish yet empty thriller gives Dolph Lundgren another square face again on immortality straight to the video".
In 1997, Dolph starred in Frà © phic Forestier The Peacekeeper , played Major Frank Cross of the US Air Force and was the only person who could prevent the president from being killed and with the ability to thwart the imminent. nuclear disaster. The threat comes from a terrorist group, which has stolen President's personal communications computer with the ability to launch US weapons to threaten global security. The film stars Michael Sarrazin, Montel Williams, Roy Scheider and Christopher Heyerdahl, and was shot at a location in Montreal. The film is praised for its exciting action sequence. Doug Pratt describes the first half of the film as "extraordinary" and describes the character of Dolph as "resilient", although Robert Cettl writes "Peacekeeper trades in front of the B-movie star Dolph Lundgren, an actor who never became as popular as his contemporaries Jean-Claude Van Damme and Steven Seagal. "
In 1998, he appeared in the action-supernatural horror film by Jean-Marc Piché © The Minion with FranÃÆ'§oise Robertson Lundgren describes Lukas Sadorov, the middle eastern templar and member of the order accused of guarding the gate to Hell which, if opened, will release all evil. The only thing that can open it is the key sought by Minion, a demon spirit that transfers itself into the body of the nearest host when it was previously killed. Waking up in New York City, Minion tracks down Karen Goodleaf when Luke arrives in America to protect her and the key. Michael Haag in his book Templars: History and Myth: From the Temple of Solomon to Freemasons (2009) says, "The budget for this movie is $ 12 million. Too bad they did not spend a cent for the research (quoting that one reference is 600 years out)... Lundgren is a Templar monk kicking his ass with a spiny leather glove whose sacred task is to do what the Templars always do and stop the keys who has kept the Anti-christ imprisoned for thousands of years from falling into the right hand. "DVD and Video Guide 2005 described the film as" probably one of the worst films ever ".
Then in 1998, Dolph appeared with Bruce Payne and Claire Stansfield at Sweepers as Christian Erickson, a leading demolition specialist and head of an elite specialist team, trained to disarm minefields in a humanitarian mine-mining operation in Angola.. In that incident his son was killed and he found that mines were planted during the war to kill people in the area. This film is a joint production of America and South Africa. The Video Guide to 2002 says, "the sound you hear is not a lot of explosions on the screen, but Lundgren's career action star is reaching its lowest point." He also appeared on the Blackjack TV pilot (directed by John Woo) as a former US Marshal who has a white phobia, who became the guard and detective of the young supermodel (Kam Heskin) who targeted a psychotic killer (Phillip MacKenzie ). Shot at a location in Toronto, the film was originally intended to be a pilot episode of the series focusing around his character, Jack Devlin but was not accepted as a series because it was not well received. One commentary says "the narrative is so stupid" and the DVD and Video Guide to 2005 say, "a tedious, lightweight action, made for TV entirely to achieve a satisfying climax".
In 1999, he appeared on Isaac Florentine's Bridge of Dragons as an army killer "human machine" named Warchikj along with Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, who once worked with Lundgren in the 1991 Showdown in Little Tokyo film , Valerie Chow, Gary Hudson, John Bennett, and Scott L. Schwartz. He later starred in Storm Catcher with Mystro Clark and Robert Miano under director Anthony Hickox, describing a military pilot accused of treason in a plot to overthrow the US Government. He is blackmailed to plan an attack in which he will bomb Washington with a new jet called "Hurricane Catcher" by a rebel general (Miano). Film Reviews fired the film and Lundgren's appearance as "more Lundgren madness". Finally he starred in the next picture of Hickox, Jill Rips , based on a 1987 novel by Scottish writer Frederic Lindsay. He described Matt Sorenson, a former San Francisco boxer and policeman who avenged the brutal death of his younger brother, Michael. Intending to find his brother's killer, Sorenson infiltrated into a strong political world, business intrigue and casual sex and sadomasochism. His obsession to discover the identity of the murderer increased because a series of other men were found murdered in the same way, and he lost all objectivity and became a judge. DVD and Video Guide to 2005 say, "not to be trusted but, as always, it's fun watching Dolph Lundgren in action." Movie Review "shuddered" at the movie concept and commented that Lundgren "should have been a long forgotten star of action."
2000s
2000-2004
In 2000, Lundgren starred in The Last Warrior as Captain Nick Preston under director Sheldon Lettich. The post apocalyptic film was set in 2006 in the context of a 9.5 magnitude earthquake that killed millions of people, with Preston leading a diverse military patrol on the island to help survivors in a polarized shift world. The film was partly shot in Eilat, Israel. Then in 2000, Dolph appeared in Damian Lee's Agent Red (also known as Captured ), along with Alexander Kuznetsov, Natalie Radford and Randolph Mantooth. The film was set during the Cold War, and about two soldiers were trapped in a submarine with a group of terrorists who planned to use chemical weapons against the United States. Lundgren's character, Matt Hendricks, had to work with his wife, a virologist, to prevent the scenario from happening. After the movie is over, producer Andrew Stevens thinks it is too bad to be released and many people have to be hired to at least make a half-competent movie. The film is very unacceptable, given its "frugal budget"; DVD and Film Guide of 2005 wrote, "Low-budget stars Dolph Lundgren as the special operations commander of the navy are trying to keep the deadly virus out of the hands of the terrorists.This bottom effort sinks to the bottom of the ocean in tidal cliches." During the interview on < i> The Tonight Show with Jay Leno in May 2008, Gladiator director Ridley Scott said Lundgren had been considered as part of the unbeaten Tigris of Gaul fighters in 2000, but was eventually rejected for " as an actor, he just does not match what we're trying to accomplish ".
In 2001, Lundgren starred in Hidden Agenda , directed by Marc S. Grenier. He plays Jason Price, a former FBI agent who protects the witness. In 2003, Lundgren was featured in Sidney J. Furie's Detention , in the presence of Alex Karzis, Kata DobÃÆ'³ and Anthony J. Mifsud. He described the retired secondary school history teacher and former Special Forces soldier Sam Decker who had one last detention for the supervisor; he must unite the troublemakers and wrong in custody to defeat the intention of the ring of drugs taking over the school.
In 2004, she starred in an incredible number of films. He first appeared opposite Polly Shannon in Direct Action under Sidney J. Furie, described Sergeant Frank Gannon, an officer who had spent the last three years in the Direct Action Action unit (DAU) unit, fighting gang crime and corruption and after he left he was hunted down by his former colleague for betraying the brotherhood. Next he appears in Ed Bye Fat Slags , a film adaptation of the Strips Slags strip comics that appear in the English "comic" alternative viz . His role was little more than a cameo role with Geri Halliwell, Naomi Campbell and Angus Deayton. The reviews about the movie were so bad that it remained under IMDb's 100 as one of the worst movies ever made. He next appeared in the science fiction image Christopher Kulikowski Retrograde with Gary Daniels and Joe Sagal. It tells the story of "a group of genetically unique people who travel back in time to prevent the discovery of meteors containing deadly bacteria." Shot in Italy, the film has the support of the Luxembourg Film Fund. Finally he made his directorial debut, replacing the ill-fated Sidney J. Furie during the pre-production, with The Defender , where he also starred alongside Shakara Ledard and Jerry Springer, who plays the President of the United States. Union. Lundgren plays Lance Rockford, bodyguard of the National Security Agency, Roberta Jones (Caroline Lee-Johnson), in the war on terror.
2005-2009
In 2005, Lundgren starred and directed a photo of both The Mechanik (Russian Specialist), playing special forces Russian Special Forces hit Nikolai "Nick" Cherenko caught in a firefight with the Russian mafia. Sky Movies commented that The Mechanik is "hardcore death-dealing from Nordic leviathan" and says that "The Mechanik gives you all the no-nonsense guneplings you want from Friday night".
In 2006, Lundgren played the Brixos gladiator in the Italian-made history/biblical drama, The Inquiry ( L'inchiesta ), also known as Final Investigation i>, along with Daniele Liotti, MÃÆ'³nica Cruz, Max von Sydow, F. Murray Abraham and Ornella Muti. This is a remake of the 1986 Italian film directed by Damiano Damiani and starring Keith Carradine and Harvey Keitel. Set in AD 35 in the Roman Empire, the story follows a fictional Roman general named Titus Valerius Taurus, a campaign veteran in Germania, who was sent to Judea by Tiberius emperor to investigate the possibility of Jesus' newly crucified deity. Movies taken on location in Tunisia and Bulgaria, featuring scores from Andrea Morricone, the son of famous film composer Ennio Morricone. It aired on Capri, Hollywood and the Los Angeles Italian Film Festival. One reviewer on the website who catered for historical films said the film, "The Final Investigation is one of the movies you are happy for you to face.... I have low expectations for this movie, but glad to have been proved wrong I know about the negative reviews this film gets and some of the criticisms are worth it, while some are a bit unfair. "
In the same year, he appeared in the music video "Kosmosa" sung by Russian singer Irson Kudikova.
In 2007, Lundgren directed and starred in Mongolia-based action adventure, Diamond Dogs . Lundgren portrays the character of Xander Ronson, a mercenary hired by a group of American lucky hunters to act as their guide and bodyguard, while they search for priceless Buddhist artefacts deep in the Chinese wilderness. They get more than they bargain, because they are dealing with the Russian mercenaries as well after the artifacts. Film, Canadian-Chinese production, shot on the spot in Inner Mongolia. Then in 2007, Lundgren wrote, directed and starred in Missionary Man with Charles Solomon Jr.. Described as "modern west" by Lundgren, He plays a single person, a stranger who taught the Bible named Ryder who came to a small town in Texas on a Harley-Davidson motorcycle of the 1970s to attend the funeral of his dear friend, JJ, a local American carpenter, only to later engage in a series of fights with a local gang. According to Lundgren, it has long been his desire to direct westerners, who have long been fans of Clint Eastwood and John Wayne, but he does not want to spend his time and money building an old city in the west and hire horses, so decided to install it in modern times by bicycle motorcycle instead of entering the city with horses like Clint Eastwood did. Lundgren co-author, brother of wife Frank Valdez happened to be a famous actor working in Texas and invited the Lundgren team to shoot there. The film was taken at a location in Waxahachie, a southern suburb of Dallas and produced by Andrew Stevens and specifically screened at the AFI Dallas Film Festival 2008.
In 2008, Lundgren starred Michael ParÃÆ'Â © in the live film to the action video Live Contact . He plays the role of Mike Riggins, a former US special forces imprisoned in Eastern Europe, who offered his freedom and money to rescue an American woman, Ana Gale, who had been abducted by a cruel warlord. This was followed by another direct film to Command Performance (2009), a drama of a hostage action in which Lundgren, a musician proficient in real life, played a rock drummer who was forced to confront terrorists at a concert in Moscow. The film stars Canadian pop singer Melissa Smith, playing the world-renowned pop singer in the film and her own daughter Ida on her screen debut, who plays one of the princesses of the Russian president. The story is inspired by a concert that Madonna uses for Russian President Vladimir Putin, although Dolph also likens the pop singer to Britney Spears. Filming took place over 5 weeks between August and September 2008 in Sofia, Bulgaria and Moscow, Russia. The film is aired on Ischia Global Film & amp; Music Festival on July 18, 2009.
In 2009, the Dolph Lundgren Scholarship was instituted on its behalf, awarded to students with the best grades in ÃÆ'â € | dalsskolan at Kramfors, the school where he himself studied. Lundgren then reunited with Jean-Claude Van Damme at the Universal Soldier: Regeneration , where he played the Andrew Scott clone. The film was released theatrically in the Middle East and Southeast Asia and directly to video in the United States and other parts of the world. Since its release, the film has received a better-than-average review for a direct franchise sequel to DVD, with film critic Brian Orndorf giving the B movie, calling it "moody, quickly appealing, and knowing when to stop, making Universal Soldier weird brand names once again. "Dread Central gave it 3 out of 5 blades, saying" there's hardly anything other than a solid b-level action until the credit rolls. " On the negative side, Pablo VillaÃÆ'§a said in his review that while he praised Van Damme's performance, he criticized that Lundgren and described the film "boring in concept and execution".
Later in 2009, Lundgren directed and starred in the hit-man thriller Icarus movie (titled in the US and UK as The Killing Machine ). He plays an entrepreneur named Edward Genn, working for an investment company, who has a shady past as a special KGB agent known as "Icarus". He tries to escape from his past life, but his identity is found and he is hunted down, putting the lives of his wife and daughter and himself in danger. It is theatrical in Los Angeles on September 10, 2010, for an exclusive engagement one week at Laemmele's SunsetÃ, 5th Theater in West Hollywood.
2010s: Return to widescreen
2010-2014
In 2010, Lundgren made a guest appearance on the TV series Chuck in the fourth season's premiere episode, Chuck Versus the Anniversary, as a Russian spy Marco, with references to Rocky IV < i> Ivan Drago. He then plays a drug killer along with Sylvester Stallone, Jason Statham, Jet Li, Randy Couture, Steve Austin, Terry Crews, Mickey Rourke, Bruce Willis, and Arnold Schwarzenegger in The Expendables action movie, which opens at cinema on August 13, 2010. The film is about a group of elite mercenaries, who are tasked with a mission to overthrow the Latin American dictator. It was described by Lundgren as "a kick-ass action movie in which people fight with knives and shoot each other." This is the first US theatrical release film since 1995 Johnny Mnemonic, (though The Inquiry (The Final Inquiry) and Missionary Man are both playing theatrics for a week in Dallas and San Diego in December 2007). Film production began on March 3, 2009, with a budget of $ 82 million. Filming started 25 days later in Rio de Janeiro and other locations in Brazil, and later in Louisiana. The film received mixed reviews from critics but was commercially successful, opening at number one at the box office in the United States, Britain, China and India.
Lundgren is one of three hosts for Melodifestivalen 2010, in which Sweden's contribution to the Eurovision Song Contest was chosen. In the first install on February 6th, Lundgren hosted the competition along with comedian Christine Meltzer and player MÃÆ'n Â¥ ns ZelmerlÃÆ'¶w. Lundgren's performance was praised by critics and audiences, especially his performance from Elvis Presley's "A Little Little Conversation".
Lundgren plays a leading role in Uwe Boll In King's Name 2: Two Worlds , and has a supporting role in Jonas Æ' € Kerlund's Small Apartment and a thriller titled Stash House . The main photography for Universal Soldier: Day of Reckoning began on May 9, 2011 in Louisiana, and filming wrapped in One In the Chamber (starring Cuba Gooding, Jr.) around that time same. The Expendables 2 entered major photography in late September/early October 2011, with Lundgren repeating his role as Gunner Jensen. The filming was wrapped up in January 2012, and was released by Lionsgate on August 17th of the year.
In 2013, Lundgren starred alongside Steve Austin at The Package . Directed by Jesse Johnson, the main photography was wrapped in March 2012, and the film was released on February 9, 2013. For live-to-DVD movies, Package is not financially successful. In its first week of release, the film debuted with no. 81; grossing $ 1.469 at the domestic box office. She starred in a number of other films later that year, including Legendary: Tomb of the Dragon, Battle of the Damned Ambushed, Blood of Redemption , and the unfinished western comedy A Man Will Rise .
In 2014, Lundgren starred opposite Cung Le in the action film Puncture Wounds, and repeated his role as Gunner Jensen for the third time at The Expendables 3. He then wrote, produced, and starred alongside Jaa and Ron Perlman at Skin Trade , an action thriller about trafficking. The subject of photography begins on February 2, 2014 in Thailand, and wrapped in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada; April of the same year. The film received a limited theater release, followed by Blu-ray and DVD releases on August 25, 2015. In February, he filmed a cameo for the comedy Coen brothers 2016 Hail, Caesar! , depicting a Soviet submarine captain.
2015-present
On January 21, 2015, Lundgren began filming Shark Lake on the Mississippi Gulf Coast. This was followed by six weeks of filming in the "Reno-Tahoe area". In the film, he describes Clint Gray, a black market dealer of exotic species responsible for releasing dangerous sharks to Lake Tahoe. Directed by Jerry Dugan, the film budget is $ 2 million. On May 23rd, War Pigs aired on the GI Film Festival. In the film, Lundgren co-starred (along with Luke Goss) as Captain Hans Picault, a French Legionnaire who trained a group of US Army Infantrymen to go behind enemy lines and exterminate Nazis. In August 2015, he began filming Kindergarten Cop 2 in Ontario, Canada, a sequel to the 1990 comedy film starring Arnold Schwarzenegger. He plays Agent Reed, a law enforcement officer who must be disguised as a kindergarten teacher, to recover lost flash drives from the Federal Witness Protection Program. Throughout the year, he starred in a number of other films, including the crime thriller The Good, The Bad and the Dead and Riot Riot. He will star in the horror thriller Mike Mendez Do not Kill It , describes the demon hunter Jebediah Woodley; and in R. Ellis Frazier's Larceny thriller, describes Jack: "a former thief who turned professional." She starred in Imagine Dragon's Believer's music video, which was released on March 7, 2017. In August 2017, she described the future version of Gil Shepard in the movie Syfy Sharknado 5: Global Swarming .
On July 21, 2017, Sylvester Stallone announced that Lundgren will re-enact his role of Ivan Drago from Rocky IV in the upcoming sequel for Creed .
Training and diet
Although Lundgren never competed as a professional bodybuilder, he has been in close contact with bodybuilding and fitness since his role as Drago in the mid-1980s. Bodybuilding.com says, "Looks like a man in his 30s rather than his 50s, Lundgren is the exact nutritional poster boy, supplement and exercise he has been practicing for over 35 years." In an interview with them, he admits often practicing up to six days a week, usually one hour session finished in the morning, saying that "only an hour a day, and then you can enjoy another 23 hours". Although he had begun to lift the burden as a teenager, he quoted Sylvester Stallone as the man who made it into a serious bodybuilding during the 1980s after he arrived in the US Stallone had a lasting influence on his fitness regime and diet, ensuring that he consumed a far-reaching protein percentage higher and divide her food intake between five or six small meals a day. Lundgren claimed to have never been "super strong", saying that, "I'm too tall and my hands are long, I think at that time Rocky IV I worked with about 300 pounds of stool and squat."
In an interview in January 2011 with GQ he announced he was working to release his own vitamins and supplements. He wrote an autobiographical fitness book, The Train Like Heroes of Action: Be Fit Forever, published in Sweden (by Bonnier Facts) on August 9, 2011, offers tips he has learned over the years to work in various situations. (with busy schedules and lots of traveling). On September 9, 2014, Lundgren publishes Dolph Lundgren: Train Like Heroes of Action: Be Forever Forever , a book containing a detailed story of life and previous problems. He cites a better quality of life for inspiring him to maintain his physical fitness.
While in Los Angeles he trained at Equinox Gym in Westwood and when at home in Marbella, Spain, he trained at Qi Sport Gym in Puerto BanÃÆ'ºs. Dolph does not, however, also likes to argue and practice karate in the gym to stay in top condition other than heavy lifting. He cites lifting dead and squatting as the best exercise to build muscle. Lundgren is not a heavy drinker, but has often idolized tequila and cocktails, citing his knowledge of chemical engineering as "making really good drinks."
Personal life
Lundgren lives in Los Angeles, California. He speaks Swedish and English, as well as a small number of French, German, Italian, Japanese, and Spanish, but is not fluent in five languages ​​as is often reported.
He is an avid football fan. He supported Everton FC when he lived in Europe but developed more interest in international football tournaments (such as the UEFA European Championships and FIFA World Cup) after moving to Los Angeles.
During the 1980s, Lundgren had a relationship with Jamaican singer Grace Jones and American model Paula Barbieri. In 1994, he married Anette Qviberg, a jewelry designer and stylist, in Marbella. The couple decided they really liked Marbella so they rented accommodation there for years, before finally buying a family home there. They have two daughters: Ida Sigrid Lundgren and Greta Eveline Lundgren, both born in Stockholm. Lundgren and Qviberg have cited the reason for staying away from Hollywood is that they want to give their children as normal childhood as possible. Her father died in 2000.
In early May 2009, Marbella Lundgren's house was reportedly damaged by three masked robbers who tied and threatened his wife, but fled when they found a family photo and realized that the house was owned by Lundgren. Lundgren later stated he was convinced the intruders were Eastern Europeans and had requested contacts in Bulgaria to investigate them, but to no avail. After the incident, Lundgren's eldest daughter, Ida, suffered from PTSD. His wife was "the most traumatized", and in 2011, they divorced.
Lundgren currently lives in Los Angeles, California. She broke up with her boyfriend, Jenny Sandersson, in 2014 and is said to be secretly engaged and married later.
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External links
- Official website
- Dolph Lundgren on IMDb
- Dolph Lundgren in the Swedish Film Database
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