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Dolph Lundgren always said he
would love to play in Swedish. He worked for a few years (don't
know if it's still the case) with the Swedish Film Industry on
a period piece film written by Reidar
Jönsson (My life as a dog directed by
Lasse
Hallstrom) and on an adaptation of novels.
"Right now, my company,
Red Orm Productions, named after a character in one of my favorite
Swedish books, is developing a project with the Swedish film
industry. This means a lot to me because for a while my pictures
were banned in Sweden because of the violence." Dolph
Lundgren in Film
Review,
Sci-Fi Special #14, February 1996
"I have ideas for projects,
couple of films I'd like to do in Sweden. There's a period piece
that I very much like and will probably produce and star in,
in Swedish, which is something I haven't done before."
"I suppose in ten years
I would like to have my integrety and my choices, and go back
and do some more stage. I'd love to do something in Sweden, I
love Sweden history and I would love to do a period piece."
Dolph Lundgren in Men's Perspective, August 1996
"There are two projects
I am working on here, one with the company called the Swedish
Film Industry, and another based on a series of novels. [...]
My interest over here is to do something in Swedish, or in a
mix of Swedish and English"
"The Swedish project
was written by a very good writer, he's pretty famous here. He's
written a number of books - one that was made into the film "My
Life As A Dog" and directed by Lasse
Hallstrom. He wrote the period piece we're putting together,
and my character is really interesting. "
"It has more of a melancholic
feeling. And the period piece script I mentioned is a little
more like that. It's more of an epic, but it has a certain, what
shall I say, nostalgia - like "Dances With Wolves";
it's pretty large scale, and has lot to do with nature and the
land, and this country's history." Dolph Lundgren to Douglas
Elby, SOMA magazine, July/August 1996
Among Dolph Lundgren's Swedish
projects was also a picture called Still
the Drums, that was rewrote by Bridge
of Dragons's script doctor, Clint
Lien.
The kind of serious projects
I'm waiting for years! Dramatic film/performance, not entertainment
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