Back in Action

Back in Action (1994)

A two man force of destruction, set to destroy the illegal establishment.

Two men have different motivations but the same goal when they team up and mount an assault on a powerful drug gang.

Date of release
1994-07-13
TMDB
5.4 / 10 (29)
Runtime
1h 33m
Genres
Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Director
Steve DiMarco, Paul Ziller

Casting

Interesting facts

Back in Action is a 1994 Canadian-American action film directed by Steve DiMarco and Paul Ziller, starring Billy Blanks, Roddy Piper, Bobbie Phillips and Nigel Bennett. Blanks and Piper play contrasting types on a mission to take down a criminal cartel who threatens the former's sister, and killed the latter's police partner.

Production

The project started life as a vehicle for Canadian-based actor/producer Jalal Merhi. It was going to be a sequel to his 1992 film Talons of the Eagle (hence the sequel-styled title of Back in Action), and bring back the three stars from his 1993 offering TC 2000: Billy Blanks, Bobbie Phillips and Merhi himself. However, Merhi found his U.S. distributor and financier Shapiro-Glickenhaus Entertainment increasingly reluctant to work with him.

Substituting Merhi's company Film One, SGE signed another Toronto outfit as its production partner, George Flak's Performance Pictures. Karl Schiffman, a friend of Flak's, was brought in and instructed to rewrite the script from scratch based on a stock buddy movie template, which he did in two weeks. Filming took place in the Toronto metropolitan area, starting on July 5, 1993, and concluding on August 13.

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