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Full Title: Jean-Claude Van Damme et ses doubles: de Jean-Claude Van Varenberg à JCVD Author: David Da Silva (not the Brazilian footballer, the other one with the PhD) Publisher: Omaké books ISBN-13: 9782379892103 Finally! A life-long fan gives us a serious and extensive analysis of Van Damme's Hollywood carrier.  What I did like: The author is always positive and respectful.  Nice foreword by screenwriter and film director Sheldon Lettich. A short chapter about Van Damme's box office rival: Steven Seagal. Plenty of unrealized movie projects. Fascinating!  Fresh content from: Keith W. Strandberg (No Retreat, No Surrender (1986)) Eric Karson (Black Eagle (1988), Lionheart (1990)) Christopher Cosby (Bloodsport (1988))  Paulo Tocha (Bloodsport (1988), Death Warrant (1990), In Hell (2003)) David Worth (Bloodsport (1988), Kickboxer (1989)) Paul Hertzog (Bloodsport (1988), Kickboxer (1989)) Dennis Chan (Kickboxer (1989), Knock Off (1998)) Harrison Page (Lionheart (199...

You know the story: From director Albert Pyun. A pseudo sequel to Masters of the Universe (1987), Heavily inspired by Once Upon a Time in the West (1968) and re-edited by director Sheldon Lettich and friends:  In a plague infested future, a Slinger strangely named Gibson Rickenbacker (Jean-Claude Van Damme) hunts down the animalistic Flesh Pirates that slaughtered his surrogate family. The original motion picture soundtrack for the recut version of CYBORG by composer/synthesizer king Kevin Bassinson is fantastic, iconic and forever ingrained in our minds, but this newly recovered unused score from 1988 by Tony Riparetti and Jim Saad is something quite different. Just like Pyun's original cut of his film, this unreleased soundscape is louder, scarier and full of frenetic primal energy. Normally rejected scores don't cut the mustard, but this Director's Cut will delight your eardrums and give you the chance to experience the apocalyptic world of CYBORG, a very credible future...