Michael Biehn's BLOOD BOND Gets Rolling

We first commented on Michael Biehn's directorial debut The Blood Bond back at the beginning of the month, drawn in both by Biehn himself and the stellar group of support players he has assembled both in front of and behind the camera.  Action and martial arts direction by Fan Siu-Wong?  Simon Yam in a key support role?  A fusion of Eastern and western action styles with the ever-reliable Biehn himself in the lead role?  It didn't take a lot of convincing to get a second look out of me on this one.  And with production now under way you can get all the news you'd ever hope for on the film thanks to producer Bey Logan blogging extensively from the set.  Logan's blog makes for a really interesting read, accompanied by loads of behind the scenes photos he's approaching this much more as a chronicle of how things are going - including the stuff that isn't going as smoothly as hoped - than as a piece of PR shill.  It makes for a fascinating peek into what actually goes in to making one of these things ...

A world-renowned spiritual leader, Bagawans Muktananda, arrives in the Asian nation of Bandanesia to give a teaching to the faithful. Accompanying him is a retinue of monks and attendants, including his personal bodyguard, Deva (Phoenix Chou), a beautiful Eurasian girl with extraordinary physical prowess.

Welcoming Bagawans is security commander Chow (Simon Yam). As soon as Bagawans and his party reach their hotel, they are attacked by assassins from a rebel terrorist group.

Wounded, Bagawans needs to undergo a life-saving operation within 12 hours. However, his blood type is so rare that only a few donors can be found who can reach the capital in time to help. Rebel leader Lompoc obtains the same information, and has his agents kill off the donors one-by-one.

Deva gets information about a possible 7^th donor in a remote village in the North, and she decides to brave the dangerous journey alone into the guerilla-held badlands. There, she finds the last possible donor whose blood can save Bagawans: a drunken, embittered former Special Forces operative named Mike Tremayne (Michael Biehn).