Gladiator Cop

Gladiator Cop (1995)

Andrew Garret is a cop trying to reveal the background of secret killing fights named "Game". He takes part in the fights under the nickname Gladiator. One of the Game bosses, Parmenion, wants him to fight with the ancient sword that once belonged to Alexander the Great against his own fighter Mongol to recall the 2000 years old duel between Alexander and his enemy whose re-incarnations he believes to be Andrew Garrett and himself.

Data de estreia
1995-05-20
TMDB
4.7 / 10 (20)
Duração
1 h 30 min
Géneros
Ação, Aventura, Fantasia
Realizador
Nick Rotundo
Coleção
The Swordsman Collection

Elenco

Curiosidades

Gladiator Cop, also known as Gladiator Cop: The Swordsman II, is a 1994 Canadian-American fantasy action film directed by Nick Rotundo, starring Lorenzo Lamas, James Hong, George Touliatos and Claire Stansfield. While branded as a sequel in some territories, it is a reboot of 1992's The Swordsman, and reuses a significant amount of footage from that film.

Production

Gladiator Cop, which is directed by The Swordsman's editor Nick Rotundo, repurposes much footage from that film as well as some outtakes, most notably the scenes featuring Lamas' character and his love interest played by Claire Stansfield. Some of the supporting actors from 1992 were brought back to link the old material with the new, such as Nicholas Pasco, whose return compounded the story's retcon as his character died in the original.

Filming of the new footage took place during the month of January 1994 in the Toronto metropolitan area. SC Entertainment, the company behind Gladiator Cop and its predecessor, was in seemingly poor standing with the local movie community by that time, and the shoot was scarcely publicized.

Prior to the shoot, the legal entity used for the film's production, Corktown Productions, applied for subsidies with the Ontario Film Development Corporation (OFDC), a provincial film incentive program. Those funds were initially approved, but upon further examination, the OFDC noticed that a large amount of content was recycled from a previous work, which put the filming dates for Gladiator Cop outside of the timeframe allowed to qualify for as…

Lorenzo Lamas, who starred in the original The Swordsman, was also blindsided by the use of his old scenes in the second film, whose existence he only learned about when he read about it in a trade publication. The actor threatened to sue the production who, in exchange for him dropping his lawsuit, accepted to pay him the same fee they had given him for the first film, even though he did not end up contributing any new footage.

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