Universal Soldier: Regeneration

Universal Soldier: Regeneration
Universal Soldier: Regeneration - DVD Cover
Directed by	John Hyams
Written by	Victor Ostrovsky
Produced by	Craig Baumgarten Mark Damon Moshe Diamant
Starring	Jean-Claude Van Damme Dolph Lundgren Andrei Arlovski
Cinematography	Peter Hyams
Edited by	Jason Gallagher John Hyams
Music by	Michael Krassner Kris Hill
Distributed by	Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Release dates	January 7, 2010 (Israel) January 8, 2010 (Philippines) January 28, 2010 (Singapore) January 28, 2010 (Malaysia) February 2, 2010 (U.S.A.)
Running time	97 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	14,000,000 USD

Universal Soldier: Regeneration is the third film in the Universal Soldier feature film series. It is directed by John Hyams, and has the screenplay written by Victor Ostrovsky. It stars Jean-Claude Van Damme and Dolph Lundgren, who both reprise their roles from the first film. Also MMA fighter and former UFC champion Andrei Arlovski stars as 'NGU' (Next Generation UniSol), a Universal Soldier of the latest type. The film is unrelated to the two Universal Soldier television sequels that were produced in 1998 and ignores the events from the 1999 sequel Universal Soldier: The Return. The film is released directly to video in the United States and theatrically overseas.

Plot

With stolen top-secret technology, terrorists have created a next-generation Universal Soldier - an elite fighter genetically altered into a programmable killing machine. With this 'UniSol' (Former UFC Heavyweight Champion Andrei Arlovski) leading the way, they seize the crippled Chernobyl nuclear reactor, threatening to unleash a lethal radioactive cloud.

The only one who can stop them is Luc Deveraux (Jean-Claude Van Damme), a UniSol who's been decommissioned for years. Reactivated and retrained, Deveraux must make a full-out assault on the heavily armed fortress. But inside, he'll discover not one, but two of these virtually indestructible warriors. Andrew Scott (Dolph Lundgren), Deveraux's vicious UniSol enemy from the original Universal Soldier, has been secretly cloned and upgraded.

Now these elite fighters are locked, loaded and programmed to kill; and the fate of millions hinges on this high-action showdown.

Cast

• Jean-Claude Van Damme as Luc Deveraux
• Dolph Lundgren as Andrew Scott
• Andrei Arlovski as NGU
• Garry Cooper as Dr. Porter
• Corey Johnson as Coby
• Kerry Shale as Dr. Colin
• Aki Avni as General Boris
• Emily Joyce as Dr. Sandra Fleming
• Violeta Markovska as Ivana
• Mike Pyle as Capitaine Kevin Burke
• John Laskowski as Captain
• Zahari Baharov as Commander Topoff
• Kristopher Van Varenberg as Miles

Release

Release details:

Location	Title	Format			Rating
		Theatrical	Blu-ray	DVD
Israel	Universal Soldier: Regeneration	January 7, 2010			R
Philippines	Universal Soldier: Regeneration	January 8, 2010			R-15
Singapore	Universal Soldier: A New Beginning	January 28, 2010			R
Malaysia	Universal Soldier: A New Beginning	January 28, 2010			R
U.S.A.	Universal Soldier: Regeneration		February 2, 2010	February 2, 2010	R

Screenings

At October 1, 2009, a secret/surprise screening of the film took place at the Fantastic Fest in Austin, Texas, U.S.A..

Production

Pre-release titles

During its production, the movie's title was modified several times:

• Universal Soldier 3
• Universal Soldier(s): The Next Generation
• Universal Soldier: A New Beginning

Release titles

The final release of the movie has had different titles for certain countries. Some of these different titles are the same as that of the movie during its production:

• Universal Soldier: A New Beginning

Interview with the director

In a phone interview between director John Hyams and the 'Van Damme' fanbase, the director commented:

I am hoping that we are taking a film that was made a long time ago and we are now trying to present these characters in a contemporary context, and that means stylistically contemporary and to use my own taste, something that feels like it belongs in this era of film making. I also think that that film is a bit of a nostalgia piece, not only to late 80’s but also early 80’s.

The music in the film was a synth score and to me was something that was reminiscent of the John carpenter movies that I loved growing up, like The Thing, Carpenter would always his they great synth scores. Another piece we used was the group Tangerine Dream did a great score for the movie Sorcerer and taking a note from films like Blade Runner, movies influenced me and my idea of science fiction and action film making and take all the work I did in documentaries and the work I did within MMA and taking all those elements and putting them together to create a style of the film that I think is very different to the first two films, but I think fans of the first two will appreciate and maybe people who haven’t seen them will appreciate it.

I hope that we have breathed some life into the franchise. Some of the powers that be have certainly talked about doing another one already, whether that happens or not involves a lot of elements to come together. With what’s happening with the storylines, we could certainly go in a number of directions.

Related Films

• Universal Soldier (1992)
• Universal Soldier: The Return (1999)

External links

• Universal Soldier: Regeneration at IMDb

Trailers

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Stills

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