"My name's Johnny Rico and I say 'Kill them all!'"
That's how most of us remember Caspar Van Dien as the star of Paul Verhoeven's controversial cult hit Starship Troopers, though he also appeared as the the title figure in Tarzan & the Lost City, cut a cool night-stalker role in Modern Vampires and recently brought Johnny Cage to life in Mortal Kombat Legacy's Season 2.
2015 will see Van Dien picking up his guns once more for the action thriller Relentless under director John Milton Branton, playing former US Army Ranger Charlie LaFarge.
After smugglers steal his boat and leave him for dead, a former US Army Ranger (Van Dien) gets caught in the middle of a war between rival Russian and Thai drug traffickers. The brutal murder of his friend and mentor - and the kidnapping of his girlfriend - leaves him no choice but to 'walk the road of vengeance...'
With the Thai Police on his trail thinking he's part of the drug trade and a crooked DEA agent playing both sides against each other, there's only one man he can trust, himself. The battle lines have been drawn and the final high octane, high impact battle will rage across the mean streets of Thailand!
Relentless is being produced by Greenlight Films, Emerald Films and Riucci Films from a script by retired ATF agent and award-winning journalist/author Chuck Hustmyre whose credits include Dave Bautita starrer House of the Rising Sun for Lionsgate's Grindstone and End of a Gun and Blink: Black Ops which are both in active development.
John Milton Branton's credits include Dark Power with Sean Patrick Flannery and Kristina Loken, Absolute Fear with Patrick Bergin and the currently-shooting Modern Mysteries.
The producers are also in talks with Hawaii Five-0 and Crying Freeman star Mark Dacascos to play a key role in the film, with more cast members to be announced shortly. The film's extensive fight and stunt sequences will be handled by Thailand-based choreographer and co-ordinator Brahim Achabakhe whose credits include Tekken 2, Ninja Shadow of a Tear, Jean-Claude Van Damme's Pound of Flesh and most recently Jason Statham's The Mechanik 2.
Joining the film fresh from Ultimate Justice are Co-Producers Ruediger Kuermerle aka Brandon Rhea (Fearless, Michele Yeoh's Silverhawk) and Impact's own Mike Leeder (Pound of Flesh, Man with the Iron Fists 1 & 2's, Man of Tai Chi). Also working on the casting for the film is US casting director and co-producer, Pamela Staton, CSA.
Leeder had the following to say about the project, "Relentless is a fast paced intelligent action thriller, Director John Milton Branton has a great vision for the project and with Caspar Van Dien as our lead and action maestro Brahim handling the action, we've got a lot to be excited about!"
