March 2014
Wrapped principal photography
June 2013
Tony Jaa is cast as the co-star and Ekachai Uekrongtham (Beautiful Boxer) is hired as the director.
Summer 2012
Dolph pulls out of directing the picture and gets director John Hyams to do a polish of the script.
June 25, 2011
"that's a story that
I came up with about five or six years ago... or maybe more.
About human trafficking. Something I'm developing right now -
I'd like to play the second lead and get somebody else to play
the lead to get a little bit of a bigger budget. It's kind of
a, it's like a Michael Mann movie where it's about some men who
are mirror images of each other in some ways with the dark and
the light and the good and the bad, that kind of thing. The plot
is about human trafficking, where one guy... who is a cop who
gets his family -- is hurt and damaged by some bad guys and they
happen to be from Russia. And the other guy is kind of a mirror
image and he's from Russia and he's already going through a lot
of things that the American cop ends up going through in the
first act of the picture - then they kind of end up joining forces
in the second and third act. So I thought I would play the Russian
- and I'll find an American actor for the other role. Try to
get it done either this Fall or if I end up in The Expendables
sequel then it will be next year." Dolph Lundgren for Hitrockbottom.org
April 3, 2011
"I’m trying to put
that together and I’m talking to a couple of actors right
now. I hope to get that together this year. I’m doing a
couple of new movies over the next few months here, smaller roles
as I said, and then there is ‘The Expendables 2’ which
is coming up. In between all that I’m trying to work in
‘Skin Trade’. I would be playing a supporting role
and directing, sort of throwing the ‘big job’ [Leading
Role] on somebody else." Dolph
Lundgren for Moviemavericks
October 14, 2010
"I’m writing a couple
of scripts. There’s one I’m trying to finish up called
“Skin Trade”; it’s about human trafficking. Hopefully,
I’ll try to get a more famous actor as the lead, and I’d
direct it and play the co-lead. Hopefully, I can get a bigger
budget." Dolph Lundgren
for Hollywood
Reporter
April 9, 2010
"UNTITLED DOLPH LUNDGREN
PROJECT
Pre-Production - Action/Adventure
Log Line:
In a race against time, a New York City cop must track down the
human traffickers that murdered his wife and abducted his son.
Start of shooting : February, 2011" from Cinando |
