WHAT'S MY NAME? - Van Damme's Final Action Movie announced!

In The Tower JCVD was supposed to play a character named Wiston Baxter who ends up fighting his own son in the ring. In What's My Name JCVD is playing himself and he will fight UFC fighters and the nemeses of his long screen career. The car accident and memory loss happens in both movies.

What's My Name:
In the film, Van Damme will play himself. Left in a coma following a serious car accident, he wakes up with amnesia, unrecognizable to everyone, including himself. Through a series of fights against iconic fighters from across his legendary career, Van Damme begins a quest for his own identity and life meaning. This leads him to one final match.
In the film, I am on my way down in terms of career, and as I come out of a premiere of another action movie, I am not happy because I’ve been living in hotels the past 30 years, which is actually true. We’re going to bring real elements from my real life and what happened to me. I came from Belgium, all the way to Hollywood. I succeeded, I failed, I came back. So I’m walking out on the street after the premiere, and boom! — a car hits me because I’m drunk. When I wake up from the impact, I don’t know what’s my name, and no one recognizes me.”

Said Zag: “He’s trapped in this catch-22 where his heart is his only guide and that road will lead him through a journey that includes a lot of fights, in what will be a real action mainstream movie where we treat JC as a real human superhero.”

What’s fun is that for Van Damme the character to regain his mojo, he will fight a lot of the on-screen opponents that made him a star for his acrobatic, high-flying style. That likely include will Universal Soldier‘s Dolph Lundgren, Kickboxer‘s Tong Po (Michel Qissi) and Double Impact‘s Bolo Yeung (who co-starred alongside Bruce Lee in Enter the Dragon and remains in fine shape).
Zag said that they will shoot this in Paris, in unexpected locations like the catacombs beneath the Opera of Paris, where he’ll square off against the nemeses of his long screen career.

“I grew up watching JC and want new audiences to do the same thing, and when he stands against Tong Po, he’ll begin to flashback in his mind, and we will reproduce some of the best fights from some of his biggest movies.”
“We are getting all of the iconic people I fought and have most of them come back,” he said. “All of the UFC fighters grew up watching my movies, and we will have some of those great champions as fighters, and some as managers like Randy Couture. We’ll have a great mix and the fights will have a real feel to them.”

Yeah, he was right indeed. He also said filming in May, no?
Hopefully Dolph will be really on board.

Which other actors you would like/dream to see even if it not happens?

This is just me opinion .. i hate the title,  just sayin

I don't remember the last time a JCVD film had such a strong interest, the news is going around the world and almost everyone is enthusiastic about this project.

Love it! Claude Goetz should really get a "special thanks" credit, he pushed so hard for this to happen, he understood that this was the right project to glorify JCVD's career.

It's his last real Karate movie (like Bloodsport), but I think there will be more movies after this one like he said a couple of years ago. He still has Three Coyotes and Double X2 Action on his website. And I would not be surprised if the JC-1 series will happen in 2023 or 2024. He doesn't need to be in very good shape for those movies. What's My Name will be the last movie he will be in his best possible shape for.