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It’s been a minute since we have had some Scott Adkins news and that is over now as Deadline has brought word that the action star’s next high kicking actioner Diablo has acquired North American rights as Grindstone entertainment has picked up the film for a street launch later this year. The news comes with a stunning and headache inducing new pic of Adkins going airborne on an enemy combatant. Scroll below to check out the window shattering new pic below!
Diablo reunites Adkins with his Undisputed 3: Redemption and Savage Dog co-star Marko Zaror with Ernesto Díaz Espinoza (Bring Me the Head of the Machine Gun Woman) directing. Zaror and Espinoza are close friends and have collaborated in past years with the martial arts action pics Kiltro (2006), Mirageman 92007), Mandrill (2009) and 2014’s Redeemer. The two just recently worked together again before Diablo with The Fist of the Condor which hit last year. Having Espinoza at the helm for Diablo bodes well for action fans as he really knows how to make Zaror look fantastic and screen and add in Adkins and this one has the makings of becoming an instant fisticuffs powered martial arts classic.
The film follows Kris Chaney (Adkins) who, after being released from prison, embarks on a perilous mission to fulfill an old promise but finds himself in danger when he kidnaps Elisa, the daughter of a powerful gangster. Her father, Vincent, puts out a call to the entire criminal underworld to bring her back alive. El Corvo (Zaror), a psychopathic killer, joins the hunt not for the money but for his own vendetta against Vincent’s family. Kris must evade both Elisa’s powerful father and a ruthless killer bent on revenge to live long enough to tell Elisa the full story that has been hidden from her.
The film, which was written by Mat Sansom, recently finished principal photography and is currently in the postproduction stages. there is also additional casting news as Colombian actress Diana Hoyos (Sniper: Ultimate Kill, Oye Bonita, Nurses) is in the film as well. Adkins and Zaror also serves as producers on the film along with Craig Baumgarten (Universal Soldier franchise, Never Back Down), and Clay Epstein (Crypto).
“I am excited to share this movie with the fans. Diablo turned out great. Some of the best fights and action we have ever done” Adkins stated in the article. Knowing that Adkins thinks that Diablo contains some of the best fights filmed yet between himself and Zaror really cements that we may have something special here. After all, when the two action juggernauts locked horns at the end of Undisputed 3, that finale turned out being one of the best western martial arts fights ever put on film.
With the acquisition news hitting today, expect a release date and trailer to hit hopefully in the near future!!!
