Trivia / Double Impact

• California Doubling: Due to late production troubles, the final two weeks of shooting moved from Hong Kong to Los Angeles.
• Copiously Credited Creator: Jean-Claude Van Damme plays two roles and has a producer, story and screenplay credit.
• The Danza: Peter Malota as Peter (who is credited as "Body Guard With Spurs").
• Dawson Casting: The twins are supposed to be 25, yet Jean-Claude Van Damme was 31.
• Playing Their Own Twin: Jean-Claude Van Damme as the twins.
• Stillborn Franchise: Jean-Claude Van Damme and Sheldon Lettich had been discussing a sequel for years that would have had a more serious tone. It fell apart due to budgetary and rights issues. Van Damme summed up the plot:
  Two twins, one is coming back from Asia to Los Angeles to help his brother, who is a con-artist and pretending to be a big Hollywood producer and he's in trouble with the mob.
• What Could Have Been:
  • Albert Pyun was briefly approached to direct when the project in the late 1980s. He said on his Facebook page in 2012:
  The last time I've spoken with JCVD was on the roof of a building across the street from Cannon on Wilshire. JCVD wanted to talk in private and he told me the story he wanted to do for his next film called Corsican Brother which became Double Impact I believe. JCVD asked if I would want to direct it for him. The whole idea of TWO JCVD's seemed a bit far fetched and I did not commit either way but told him I had reservations about how the twins idea would work. I told him I thought he should keep moving in the direction of a pure action star and leave the gimmick movies behind. Haven't seen or talked to him since directly.
  • Alex was originally Asian and Tia Carrere tested for the role, until Jean-Claude Van Damme decided that she should be blonde.
• Working Title: The Corsican Brothers.

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