{"id":4016,"date":"2012-08-13T13:28:32","date_gmt":"2012-08-13T19:28:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bmovienation.com\/?p=4016"},"modified":"2012-08-13T13:28:32","modified_gmt":"2012-08-13T19:28:32","slug":"the-b-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bmovienation.com\/?p=4016","title":{"rendered":"The B Team,"},"content":{"rendered":"

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We got to interview Don \u201cThe Dragon\u201d Wilson, who acknowledges his status as a Martial Arts B-Movie star, for his role in the short Liberator. We\u2019ll have the full interview with Wilson posted this week, but he gave us some updates on one of his next films. Papau, New Guinea themselves have been touting the production of The B-Team in their country, but they have some old information.<\/p>\n

PNG reports that Wilson, Cynthia Rothrock, and Michael Jai White are the leads in a sort of Expendables team of B-movie stars. Wilson updates us on a replacement for White, and an additional lead. \u201cThese are the names the producer right now has said he wanted: Michael Dudikoff, Jeff Speakman, Cynthia Rothrock and myself,\u201d Wilson said.<\/p>\n

In addition, Wilson has his sights on even more B-movie stars for co-stars, who could shoot very small cameo roles while Wilson, Speakman, Rothrock and Dudikoff are holding down the production for six weeks in PNG.<\/p>\n

\u201cThose four positively, but since there\u2019s a lot of bad guys and a lot of good guys in it, there\u2019s room for anybody that\u2019s going to be available,\u201d Wilson continued. \u201cThey would only be in for a few days and then out. The ones I listed, we would have to be in New Guinea the entire six-week shoot but the other actors can come and go. There\u2019s going to be plenty of action and the game plan is to get as many guys as we can get in. I literally know every one of them.\u201d<\/p>\n

So all your nights watching Olivier Gruner, Mark Dacascos and Lorenzo Lamas movies may finally pay off. Wilson has roles for all of them. \u201cEvvverybody. Mark and Richard Norton. I would get even obscure ones. I don\u2019t know if you know Karen Sheperd or Billy Blanks [the Tae Bo guy.] I put him in his first movie, Bloodfist. I\u2019d get any of these guys and even if they don\u2019t do action, they would play just an officer coming into a room or do one line or whatever, just to stick with our strange goofy thing of putting all these guys in one movie. You\u2019d see every one. If you watched these B-movies back in the [\u201880s and \u201890s], I\u2019d put Jerry Trimble in there, Loren Avedon, if you could send me a list of the guys you want in, I\u2019ll try to get every single one of them in.\u201d<\/p>\n

Wilson clearly has a sense of humor about it, and he wants the movie to have one too. No sense celebrating B-movies if you\u2019re going to take it seriously. \u201cIt\u2019s got a little comedic element,\u201d Wilson said. \u201cWe didn\u2019t want to go hardcore and take ourselves too seriously because it\u2019s kind of goofy to have all these B-movie guys all in the movie. So the producer wanted to add a little comic touch to it, so it\u2019ll probably be a little funnier than my other movies. It\u2019s a comedy. Well, not a comedy. It\u2019s an action movie with comedy. There\u2019ll be at least one comedian hired for the film but that one\u2019s pretty close to getting done. \u201d