Steven Seagal: Motivational Speaker. Watch A Clip From The Director's Cut Of TICKER

Albert Pyun's excavation of his past work continues. The cult director recently turned up a telecine of the final director's cut workprint of Jean Claude Van Damme star vehicle Cyborg and now he's done the same for his 2001 effort Ticker.

Starring Steven Seagal, Tom Sizemore, Nas, Jaime Pressly and Dennis Hopper, Ticker was produced by the folks at Nu Image who apparently performed radical surgery on the film after Pyun turned it in. In Pyun's own words:

I was removed from the editing by the assholes at Nu-Image and they proceeded to destroy the movie by adding ridiculous stock footage, changing the setting from Chicago to San Francisco and not using composer Tony Riparetti's music score.

As was the case with Cyborg, however, a telecine copy of Pyun's own workprint survived, he's got it and he's making it available so people can see the film he actually made. Things are rough - they always are with material at this stage - but it's a truer representation of what was intended than what was released.

Things are being buffed and polished as much as possible for an eventual small scale release - email curnanpictures [at] gmail dot com for details - and he's put a six minute clip online for people to get a taste. Check it below.