10 Things You Didn’t Know about Action Jackson - Neatorama

The 1988 film Action Jackson starred Carl Weathers as a Detroit cop who investigates a murderous union-busting corporation. It was a box office hit, but critics found it lacking. Formulaic but fun, if you like action movies. Let's learn some more about Action Jackson.

10. It was supposed to be a franchise but it never happened.

Despite the reasons this never happened the film titled Dangerous Passion was touted as Action Jackson 2 in some countries to capitalize on the success of the movie.

9. Carl Weathers came up with the idea while on the set of Predator.
It seems a little odd to think about another film while working on a film but Weathers’ idea was met with a great amount of approval.

Read more about Action Jackson at TVOM.

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Ah, the great Lu Ban. I always wondered who invented plywood.

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I clearly remember it was Thor.

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Oceania's Big Brother invented the plane, I believe, as well as the locomotive. I don't know about the bicycle, but probably that too.

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All cycles are pedal powered.

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Great observation, Zavatone. Congratulations.

I love recreations of ancient things. Probably because I love ancient things.

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"The Chinese claim to have invented absolutely everything! All I say to the Chinese is - why didn't you invent the camera twelve hundred years ago so you could prove it?"

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When distinctly European mummies were found in China buried with oodles of technology previously credited to the Chinese of millennia later, the Chinese government teamed up with the National Geographic channel to "invent" a way to consider these mummies to be Chinese!

Their inventions are limitless.

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It'd be more impressive if China's mindset wasn't stuck 2000 years in the past.

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"All cycles are pedal powered." Maybe now. The first velocipedes were not.

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