It’s been almost 20 years since the Universal Soldier. franchise began, with various installments filling up VHS and DVD bargain bins ever since. Fremantle Media hopes to reverse the soldier of little fortune, creating a new television series based on the reanimated fighter premise.

The project is being written by Damian Kindler, of Syfy’s Stargate: SG1 and Sanctuary series. Universal Soldier’s executive producers, Allen Shapiro and Craig Baumgarten, both worked on the original movie and its various sequels. No actors have been announced yet, but with the production company hoping for a 2012 debut, you can bet they’ll be coming soon.

Presumably the story will follow the original movie at least somewhat, wherein American soldiers who died during the Vietnam war were reanimated and augmented, turning them into biological fighting machines. ...

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If Sylvester Stallone’s tribute to ’80s action movies with his movie The Expendables wasn’t enough for you, then you absolutely must watch this trailer for Universal Soldier: Regeneration.

Yes, you read that right.  Jean-Claude Van Damme may have turned down a role to play along with Stallone and friends and his star-studded action fest, but he and Dolph Lundgren still get to party in this third installment to their Universal Soldier franchise. I say “their” because there were two made-for-TV sequels to the first Universal Soldier that starred Matt Battaglia as the title character (making this the fifth Universal Soldier film).

Check out the trailer after the jump.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CPasvs3spuE

The last time we got treated to JCVD suiting up as Luc Deveraux was a decade ago ...

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