DARK ANGEL / I COME IN PEACE (Craig R. Baxley, 1989)

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Korean flyer
http://blog.naver.com/PostView.nhn?blog ... 0005927494

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US VHS

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Was in Las Vegas past weekend, flipping through channels and I Come In Peace was on a Spanish Language channel! It had just started so it was the credits in the air ducts with the great Jan Hammer score. So of course when I got back home to LA I put in my VHS copy!

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1997 remastered US VHS



Note the mention

"The source material used for the transfer was entitled DARK ANGEL, the film's original name."

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FRENCH LASERDISC (2nd edition)

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Italian trailer

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Screening tonight in Tucson at the Loft Cinema's Mondo Mondays

http://www.loftcinema.com/node/2205

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In the mid-90s, a sequel screenplay was commissioned by the head of Dino de Laurentiis company, Stephen Greenwald, who bought the rights and hired Harv Zimmel (SHOOT TO KILL) to write it. However, Zimmel was instructed to write new characters (a California detective and a policewoman claiming to be working with Interpol) for the sequel which was not produced since they couldn't raise the money for it.
I'm glad this didn't happen as it probably would have sucked (like all sequels without the original star). Then it's Matthias Hues who tried to write his own script and produce a sequel and a video game...

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Seriously?! That's like the No Retreat, No Surrender series where one has nothing to do with the previous installment! So was it the same thing, alien comes down to Earth for endorphins only it's in LA instead of Houston?

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Or like that atrocious RED SCORPION sequel! (Dolph declined all the sequels of his own movies at that time, not a bad move since they were all gonna be cheaper than the originals and he wanted to move ahead and get different roles) Apparently the two cops were investigating the disappearances of prostitutes and homeless less people. Looks like a dead end when it appears the policewoman is also an lien tracking one of her kind, another beautiful but evil alien... That's what I've been told by Zimmel.

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Review of the Japanese DVD which has includes the widescreen trailer but is apprently zoomed in towards the end
http://dvdfreak.bloudil.cz/freak.php?p=darkangel&dz=0

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The French lobbycards set

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International (and original) trailer in 480p

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LA TIMES article on Dolph for the US release
http://articles.latimes.com/print/1990- ... h-lundgren

Man of Action Lundgren Strives for Gentler Roles
September 27, 1990|VERNON SCOTT | UNITED PRESS INTERNATIONAL
Dolph Lundgren, the Swedish import who has become a super-macho action star, studied at Sweden's Royal Institute of Technology and holds a degree in engineering from the University of Sydney.

But he sure didn't leave his heart behind in a test tube.

"Chemistry is dull," he said. "You deal with test tubes and computers all day. As an actor you deal with beautiful women and world travel and it pays much better."


In his latest movie, "I Come in Peace," the towering 6-foot-6 Lundgren plays an American, with vestiges of Visigoth. He's a Houston, Tex., detective who tackles a pair of 7-foot galactic aliens, one of whom is a drug dealer.

While he may play sinister roles, there is a disquieting off-screen tranquility about the big Swede, which belies his film persona.

But, in the event he is mistaken for a jolly Scandinavian pussycat, one need only recall he hospitalized Sylvester Stallone with a bruised heart during a fight scene for "Rocky IV," in which Dolph played a Russian heavyweight champ named Drago.

"In this picture I play a violent man. He has to be violent because he's a cop," Lundgren said in an interview. "I see nothing wrong with violence, but today you have to add different ingredients like romance, comedy and drama to go along with the special effects.

"It helps if it is played partly tongue-in-cheek, like Bruce Willis did in 'Die Hard 2,' then audiences accept it for what it is--fantasy."

After leaving a considerable body count in his wake in "View to a Kill," "Master of the Universe," "Red Scorpion" and "The Punisher, " Lundgren longs to play a gentler soul.

He is inching up on that goal by playing Americans with diminishing Scandinavian accents.

"I am involved in less bloodshed in 'Cover Up,' a film I made in Israel," Lundgren said. "It's a suspense thriller with me playing a CIA man. There's only a small dose of violence.

"I've done seven movies now, and I'm looking for projects that will allow me to use some acting. The way I see it, these are career moves to position myself in the business and establish myself as an actor. I'm still young enough to play it smart for a couple of years so I can broaden my career.

"Rather than play it safe, I'll take as many chances as possible to show what I can do. Action films are popular now, but who is to say how long the cycle will go.

"I'm not thinking short term, take-the-money-and-run. I want some personal satisfaction from the projects I appear in. But I may have to take some detours en route to where I want to go. You must have the vision yourself and set your own goals. People in Hollywood won't do that for you."