{"id":20901,"date":"2018-09-03T05:00:46","date_gmt":"2018-09-03T09:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=20901"},"modified":"2018-08-31T18:28:08","modified_gmt":"2018-08-31T22:28:08","slug":"hard-target-at-25-john-woo-on-fighting-for-respect-in-hollywood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=20901","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Hard Target&#8217; at 25: John Woo on Fighting for Respect in Hollywood"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5 style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2018\/z090318johnwoo_hardtarget.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" \/><\/h5>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Pete Keeley at The Hollywood Reporter recently posted&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/heat-vision\/hard-target-john-woo-clashing-jean-claude-van-damme-1137208\">&#8216;Hard Target&#8217; at 25: John Woo on Fighting for Respect in Hollywood<\/a>.&nbsp; &nbsp;The interview is more than worth a read and if you click over you&#8217;ll learn&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">Woo credits&nbsp;Sam Raimi for the opportunity to come to America and make <em>Hard Target<\/em>.<\/li>\n<li>Woo wanted Kurt Russell to star in <em>Hard Target<\/em>.<\/li>\n<li><em>Hard Target<\/em> was set New Orleans as a way to explain JCVD&#8217;s accent.<\/li>\n<li>Woo thinks Uncle Douvee (Wilford Brimley) was the main great thing from the film.<\/li>\n<li>Woo wishes the studio&nbsp;would have interest in releasing the longer, original cut.<\/li>\n<li>Woo is currently working on a remake of <em>The Killer.<\/em><\/li>\n<li>and a whole lot more&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pete Keeley at The Hollywood Reporter recently posted&nbsp;&#8216;Hard Target&#8217; at 25: John Woo on Fighting for Respect in Hollywood.&nbsp; &nbsp;The<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,51,54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20901","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-celebs","category-crime","category-movies"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20901","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20901"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20901\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20902,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20901\/revisions\/20902"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}