{"id":4766,"date":"2011-08-05T11:53:55","date_gmt":"2011-08-05T15:53:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.planetchocko.com\/?p=4766"},"modified":"2013-04-17T12:47:53","modified_gmt":"2013-04-17T16:47:53","slug":"cung-le-dragon-eyes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.planetchocko.com\/?p=4766","title":{"rendered":"Cung Le: Dragon Eyes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.planetchocko.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/dragon_eyes_poster_580x860.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.planetchocko.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/dragon_eyes_poster_580x860-202x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"dragon_eyes_poster_580x860\" width=\"202\" height=\"300\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-4767\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.planetchocko.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/dragon_eyes_poster_580x860-202x300.jpg 202w, https:\/\/www.planetchocko.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/dragon_eyes_poster_580x860.jpg 580w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 202px) 100vw, 202px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.planetchocko.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/cung-le10.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.planetchocko.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/cung-le10.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"cung-le10\" width=\"200\" height=\"292\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-4802\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>via FightSportTV @Youtube<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"425\" height=\"349\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/UOXnQ11JFJA\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>I had missed <a href=\"http:\/\/cungle.com\/\"TARGET=\"resource window\">CUNG LE&#8217;s<\/a> meet &#038; greet appearance at the AFTER DARK FILMS booth promoting his new project at the 2011 san diego comic con so this update serves as a chance to hype up his soon to be released action packed film called DRAGON EYES directed by John Hyams and produced by Joel Silver! The film is still in the editing phase and hopefully, will be playing at the theatres in early 2012! Warner Brothers is mentioned in the mix so maybe this would mean a bigger release to the masses! It stars <a href=\"http:\/\/cungle.com\/\"TARGET=\"resource window\">Cung Le<\/a> (his 1st ever starring role), <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jeanclaudevandamme.us\/eng\/index.htm\"TARGET=\"resource window\">Jean Cleade Van Damme<\/a>, &#038; Peter Weller (from Robocop). <a href=\"http:\/\/cungle.com\/\"TARGET=\"resource window\">Cung Le<\/a>, a vietnamese-american martial artist from San Jose, California is a former undefeated san da kickboxing champion and former middleweight champion in the MMA organization: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.strikeforce.com\/\"TARGET=\"resource window\">STRIKE FORCE<\/a>. LE has also fought in the prestigious <a href=\"http:\/\/www.k-1.co.jp\/en\/\"TARGET=\"resource window\">K-1 Tournament<\/a> with an impressive 3-0 record! He has been highly coveted in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.insidekung-fu.com\/\"TARGET=\"resource window\">INSIDE KUNG FU<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blackbeltmag.com\/\"TARGET=\"resource window\">BLACK BELT<\/a> MAGAZINES since the mid 1990\u2019s! His martial arts background includes tae kwan do, sanshou (chinese grappling\/kickboxing), &#038; wrestling. Cung Le is one bad ass mofo with a heart of gold, real humble but confident at the same time! His signature move is a reverse scissor takedown which is executed so beautifully that it looks like art in motion! This takedown is not a finishing move of a fight but it does prove to be a demoralizing one for his opponents before he goes in for the kill! I am surprised that CL hasn\u2019t gotten more play in movies but then again, kicking ass in real life and in the ring doesn\u2019t always translate into motion pictures. The fight game often lends to brutal, direct, &#038; powerful blows as opposed to the flowery, complicated, &#038; giant moves of the ebb &#038; flow variety native to onscreen fighting!  LE is slowly but surely building up his fight film chops with the help of Yuen Woo Ping, Cory Yuen, &#038; Donnie Yen! Cung Le has appeared in a few movies that you might have seen but did not know that he was lending his kickass hand &#038; foot to the screen! Yuen Woo Ping\u2019s, TRUE LEGEND &#038; Teddy Chan\u2019s, BODYGUARDS AND ASSASSINS come to mind! He always seems to play the villain role. I&#8217;m guessing pro fighters have that square jaw &#038; rugged look that looks too bad ass not to play the antagonist! Not for nothing, but I love Donnie Yen for his martial expertise, style, charisma, and his films, but Cung Le would eat Donnie &#038; his children for breakfast and still have room for pho, \u2018fo sho\u2019 !<\/p>\n<p>DRAGON EYES is about a man in prison played by Cung Le who is being mentored in the fight game as well as in proper jailhouse survival etiquette played by a character no other than the smooth Belgian one himself, Jean Cleade Van Damme! With Le\u2019s release, he attends to some house cleaning on the streets uniting two street gangs to rival forces against a crooked cop! Right on! Sounds like a ton of action &#038; non stop fighting to me! The story sort of reads like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.michaeljaiwhite.com\/\"TARGET=\"resource window\">Michael Jai White\u2019s<\/a> fan favorite movie, BLOOD AND BONE! If Dragon Eyes can come close or eclipse the action in that film then &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=qJHEI8fJdiM\"TARGET=\"resource window\">beam me up Scotty, I control your body<\/a>&#8221; ! I\u2019m thinking if <a href=\"http:\/\/cungle.com\/\"TARGET=\"resource window\">Cung Le<\/a> is doing the fight choreography, stars in it, &#038; has the old ghost of Jean Cleade by his side then it\u2019s either going to be another cult status favorite for fans or it\u2019s going to be a train wreck like NO RETREAT, NO SURRENDER! Rest assured that if Cung Le is in the film some boombastic\u2019 fighting is going to go down and go down hard! Also, look out for LE in Wong Kar Wai\u2019s, THE GRANDMASTER and Rza\u2019s, THE MAN WITH THE IRON FIST!<\/p>\n<p>Check out Cung Le&#8217;s official website and twitter account!<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/cungle.com\/\"TARGET=\"resource window\">http:\/\/cungle.com\/<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/CungLe185\"TARGET=\"resource window\">http:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/CungLe185<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Another prolific &#038; talented martial artist in the same age range with a similiar background lurking around San Jose as well is <a href=\"http:\/\/officialerniereyesjr.com\/page.asp?content_id=20746\"TARGET=\"resource window\">ERNIE REYES JR<\/a>! (his dad, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.erniereyes.com\/\"TARGET=\"resource window\">Ernie Reyes SR<\/a> is a martial arts legend!). What&#8217;s in the water in San Jose that breeds these martial art prodigies?<\/p>\n<p>via TheMMAguide @Youtube (reporting from 2011 SD comic con)<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"480\" height=\"349\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/lCDwikf9Uqs\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>via yeticket @Youtube (reporting from 2011 SD comic con)<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"480\" height=\"349\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/85lTmTJ5fgw\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>via FightSportTV @Youtube I had missed CUNG LE&#8217;s meet &#038; greet appearance at the AFTER DARK FILMS booth promoting his new project at the 2011 san diego comic con so this update serves as a chance to hype up his soon to be released action packed film called DRAGON EYES directed by John Hyams and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,7,1893],"tags":[508,1219,1220,1221,1222],"class_list":["post-4766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-movies","category-mrc","tag-cung-le","tag-dragon-eyes","tag-jean-cleade-van-damme","tag-john-hyams","tag-mixed-martial-arts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.planetchocko.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4766","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.planetchocko.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.planetchocko.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.planetchocko.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.planetchocko.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4766"}],"version-history":[{"count":43,"href":"https:\/\/www.planetchocko.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4766\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16595,"href":"https:\/\/www.planetchocko.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4766\/revisions\/16595"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.planetchocko.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.planetchocko.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.planetchocko.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}