Photos: Magazine Scans

Here are a few magazine scans from "Fighting Spirit Magazine" in the UK on "The Expendables" & a scan on "The Stranger". Thanks to Wrestle-Galleries.info for the scans!!!

Steve Austin FHM.com Interview

Source FHM.com
By Laurence Moz (09 August 2010)

1. How was it working on The Stranger?

It was an interesting film to make just because it had more character research more so than physicality and fight choreography, and that was one of the reasons I wanted to do the project. It was just on of the ways to show a different side of myself and it was interesting as The Stranger doesn’t have background to base the character on, because he was in various amnesiatic states. So it was an interesting challenge, I’m happy with the way the movie turned out and you know again it was just a way of showing a different side of myself. But I’m not going to put myself at Leonardo Di Caprio's level.

2. Would you rather do 'deeper' movies, rather than plain action?

After just seeing The Expendables, at the LA premiere, it just makes me clamour more towards action movies, but you know what I just like to do any kind of movies that I have fun making. My core audience expects action, but I’d like to do something in the humour comedy vein, like a buddy action cop movie or something like that, I don’t see myself in too many chick flicks or rom-coms. However, I wouldn’t be opposed to doing one if it came down the pipe.

3. Did you get to meet much of The Expendables cast?

I met all the guys, and you know it was a lot of fun, and I grew up watching Sylvester Stallone movies so when I got the chance to go meet with Sly it was a meeting that lasted about 30-40 minutes and I was talking to the guy like I’d known him my whole life. It was a small part, he offered and I accepted and in the movie Eric Roberts is my boss and I’m a bodyguard to him.

It was so fun working with Eric, because he’s a world-class actor. The guy kinda took me under his wing and got to ask him a million questions every single day and to this day we’re still trading calls. The guy has helped me out a whole lot and I'd sit there and talk to Mickey Rourke, all the guys. I’m a big UFC fan and Randy Couture’s career and I get a fight scene with him, he’s got a good career.

4. Did you meet Arnie?

I met Arnold in the ring, way back in the day, when they first shot their scenes, I think that was in LA somewhere and they were the only guys on the set when that happened because the movie was already finished and man that might be the best scene in the movie. They trade some great barbs back and forth. To see those three action movie heros in a scene together, it was pretty electric for me because they’re like my top three guys.

5. Is there a big difference between working as a Wrestler and working on action movies?

The difference is remembering all the technical choreography. People think wrestling is all choreographed, I didn’t choreograph my matches you might have five things you know are going to happen in a match but you create the rest in the ring and that’s what the top people do and that’s what I did.

Even if I didn’t even meet the guy I could go out there and have a match if he was experienced hand in the ring, it’s like dancing. Some people think that sounds funny but that’s really what pro-wrestling is about. In the ring you’re listening to 18-20,000 people a night, well back in the day anyway. So you use that energy and you use that crowd noise to influence the decisions you make in the ring.

In acting there might be a hundred people there, what with the crew and then lights, cameras, action and you’re hitting marks, it’s a totally different ball game. It’s a different kind of focus. It’s very challenging, I haven’t mastered it yet, It’ll be a long time before I even come close to mastering it if I even ever get that close to it.

As Stone Cold Steve Austin, I think I had a PHD, I was damn good at that other job and if I can get that same kind of laser focus in to some of the characters that I play, in front of the movie camera or TV camera, them I’m gonna be okay, but I’m still yet to reach that comfort zone as of yet. That 100% zone I had as Stone Cold.

If I hadn’t of got dropped on my head and got injured like I did, I’d still be in the ring. My first love in life was to be a pro wrestler, at first I got into movies to keep me from being bored. I was retired for three or four years and I didn’t want to go back to driving a forklift, which is what I was doing before I got into wrestling. But I’ll never forget my wrestling fans because they’re the ones that put me on the map.

6. What do you think of the current state of Wrestling at the moment?

The talent in the wrestling ring is fine the problem is getting a place for them to learn, theres no more territories for them to learn and really get their chops up before they reach the big time because they start off in the big time. I started off in Dallas Texas and when I moved to Tennessee and then I was working every single night, then to WCW working every single night, I’d worked for several years before I hit the big time in WWE.

By the time I got to WWE, I was an absolute working machine in the ring, I was a mechanic. I wasn’t a star, but I had chops, I had a great routine, I was a great wrestler and there’s no place for that to happen these days. But that being said they’ve got some great people teaching those kids, over there in Florida and Lance Storm has a great school in Canada but there’s not any places to get real real experience before they hit the big time.

So that part of the business has changed and it’s a PG flavoured business. I don’t run a billion dollar company, but I helped build one as Stone Cold and adult wrestling is my flavour, that’s what I like, that’s what I grew up watching. These days it seems they’re trying to entertain a little bit of everybody with a lot of things. Bottom line is you’ve got a wrestling on the marquee so you’ve got to stick with wrestling.

7. Do you think there will there ever be another golden generation? Like the likes of The Rock, HHH, The Undertaker, Kurt Angle, Mick Foley and yourself?

We hope that it will be as good as it was. But don’t get me wrong those guys like John Cena are doing a great job. But when you’re talking about a locker room with the depth that we had and the different diverse gimmicks and characters that were walking around and didn’t look like everyone was coming out of the same gym or tattoo shop. I’m not running these guys down today I’d love to see business today go back to the way it was.

8. What is your opinion of British wrestling?

In my opinion all British Wrestlers all come from the same mold. They have a good wrestling background and they’re usually pretty good tumblers Steve Regal is one of my good buddies, I loved his work. I loved Davey Boy Smith and Dynamite Kid.

England has turned out some hellacious wrestlers and it’s a great breeding ground for talent and there’s a couple of guys on the scene at the moment with the great British accent busting chops. It would be great see if they could get a league going over there and make some money.

The Stranger DVD Giveaway (UK)

Stone Cold Steve Austin’s The Stranger is released today (8th August) and Anchor Bay have been kind enough to give us 3 copies of the DVD to give away. The Stranger also stars Erica Cerra, Adam Beach, Ron Lea, Viv Leacock and is directed by Robert Lieberman.

To be in with a chance of winning The Stranger on DVD, answer to the following question using the form:
What is the name of Steve Austin’s character in The Expendables?

Go here to enter into the contest.

UK "The Stranger" Trailer

"The Expendables"/Austin Promo & Release Dates

*Austin will also be promoting The Stranger in the UK*

Premieres
Camp Pendleton (CA, USA) - July 24
Los Angeles (USA) - August 3
Las Vegas (USA) - August 11
Paris (France) - August 5
Berlin (Germany) - August 6
London (England) - August 9

North America
USA - August 13
Canada - August 13

Europe
Slovenia - August 10
Bosnia & Herzegovina - August 12
Greece - August 12
Denmark - August 12
Finland - August 13
Lithuania - August 13
Portugal - August 13
Russia - August 13
Spain - August 13
France - August 18
Czech Republic - August 19
Hungary - August 19
Netherlands - August 19
UK - August 19
Iceland - August 27
Norway - August 27
Poland - August 20
Germany - August 26
Italy - September 1

Australia/NZ/Pacific
Australia - August 12

Asia
Israel - August 12
Taiwan - August 13
Turkey - August 13
India - August 13
Singapore - August 19
South Korea - August 19
Cyprus - August 19
Hong Kong - August 26
Vietnam - August 27
Japan - October 16

South America
Brazil - August 13
Argentina - August 26

IGN.com Interview With Steve Austin

Source: IGN.com

Stone Cold Is...The Stranger!
IGN talks to the WWE legend about his new thriller out on DVD, working with Stallone on The Expendables, TNA vs WWE and Twitter sharks!
by Matt Fowler

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You know him.

WHAT?

You love him.

WHAT?

Well now you can own him on DVD!

"Stone Cold" Steve Austin, the "Texas Rattlesnake" himself, has a new thriller hitting DVD and Blu-Ray shelves today. In it, Austin plays a violent amnesiac on the run from the law who's trying to piece together his tragic past. IGN had a chance to speak with the WWE Hall of Famer about The Stranger, working with Stallone on The Expendables, WWE vs. TNA, Twitter sharks and the good ol' USWA!

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IGN: So there's a scene in The Stranger where your character wears a disguise. And part of that disguise was a long-haired wig. I haven't seen you with hair since your "Stunning" Steve days. What was that like for you?

Steve Austin: [laughs] You know, that was one of my favorite scenes actually. To get a chance to feel what it was like to have hair again. You know I've always wanted, on a movie, to go to the hair department. Not the make-up department because I go there all the time, but the hair department. Most people are used to me being a bald guy, which I am. I kind of lost my hair at the age of 24, but that being said I enjoyed that part of the film. It was an interesting movie and an interesting script. It was little bit different of a vehicle than I've been in lately and it was a challenging role. That's why I decided to take that movie on.

IGN: In your last film that came out on DVD, Damage, you were sort of part of a trio -- with Walton Goggins and Laura Vandervoort. In The Stranger you were alone for a lot of the movie, off on amnesiac adventures. What was it like having to play out so many different scenarios?

Austin: Obviously it presented a lot of challenges they I hadn't undertaken before. It was all a work in progress and you know you're kind of flying by the seat of your pants any time you're doing something that you've never done before. You try to prep as much as you can but I was in uncharted waters for a person such as myself. It was a lot of fun though. Then again when you're playing a guy with amnesia and you're getting into these different personalities, or fugue sates...I don't know. It was a fun process, but wit this movie done now and out of the way I'm just looking forward to applying what I learned from this movie, and the last few movies that I've done, and becoming better at what I do. I just want to be the best actor that I can be.

IGN: And what was it like playing a man who had no idea who he was? Most of the time you can create a backstory for a character but in this case it wouldn't work.

Austin: [laughs] That was the thing I was always talking to [director] Rob Lieberman about. You have to just go forward and rely on your instincts. What instincts did I have to draw from? I can't really say. But it was just one of those things where you proceed accordingly and try to do the best you can do, man.

IGN: You had to speak a couple different languages in The Stranger. Spanish and Russian. Was that an easy thing to pick up?

Austin: [laughs] There was interesting an interview that Matt Damon did about achieving his accent for Invictus and he got to work with a dialect coach for several months and, you know, the guy's an incredible actor and for this movie it was always kind of up in the air: are we going to have him speak Spanish and Russian or are we going to just have him do the English? Because everything got put on the front burner with this movie and so we decided, "Okay, he's going to speak Spanish and Russian." And there I was, cramming with a tape recorder and phonetics sheet three days before each scene to try to pull that off the best that we could with the time that we had. And when you're trying to learn a language and you don't know what the words mean you're just imitating noises. That was another "learn as you go" procedure and if anything this movie taught me more about homework, research and prep than anything else I've done.

IGN: We're going to get to see you this August in Sylvester Stallone's Expendables. What was it like working with Stallone?

Austin: Man, I had a blast working with that guy. And, you know, I'm a huge Sly fan going back to ... hell, when was it? ... 1976 when Rocky came out. And of course I saw Paradise Alley and Lords of Flatbush and all that stuff. But I've followed his career forever. I got a meeting in Beverly Hills with him in his office and we hit it off like we'd known each other for ten years. He offered me the part and I accepted. I play a guy in The Expendables named Dan Payne and it's not like I'm dialogue-heavy in the movie but that's okay. Eric Roberts plays my boss and I'm just there to supply some muscle and intimidation under his direction. And me and that guy hit it off right away. He took me under his wing and I asked him a million questions about acting and we'd just sit there when we weren't on camera, telling dirty jokes and I just picked his brain for three months. It was a blast.

IGN: You just did another film with Eric Roberts, didn't you?

Austin: Yeah, I just finished another movie with him in Vancouver about five months ago called Hunt To Kill. There was a part in there that we could have used Eric for so I called him up out of the blue and I didn't know if he'd do it or not and he said "Steve, I'll do anything for you." And he came up there and he did that movie with me and I'd love to work with him again. We turned out to be very good friends. It started on The Expendables and now we trade phone calls once every two weeks. That guy has been a total sweetheart to me.

IGN: What are some of your favorite action movies?

Austin: Probably a lot of the stuff that Stallone did. A lot of the stuff that Arnold did. I liked a lot of Seagal movies from back in the day. Old Van Damm movies. And I don't know if they'd necessarily be called action movies, but a ot of Steve McQueen stuff. Paul Newman too. I wouldn't called Cool Hand Luke an action movie but movies like that really influenced me. Another movie I like which again I wouldn't call an action movie was The Shawshank Redemption.

IGN: Do you still keep up with the WWE? Do you watch RAW or Smackdown?

Austin: I watch every now and then when I can. I don't follow it as much as I used to. Technically I'm still with the company. I'm totally independent but technically I'm still with the company and have a great relationship with them but I'm just because I'm trying to focus on the things that I've got going I really don't get to watch that much TV at all. Which is interesting when I go to some meetings to discuss TV projects and they ask me "what do you like to watch on TV?" And I have to tell them that I don't really watch a whole lot of TV. I don't watch the WWE as much as I'd like to, but I don't really watch TV in general.

IGN: Did you happen to catch any of TNA when they put themselves up against RAW?

Austin: Oh, that was brutal. Just brutal. I've always wished TNA all the luck in the world. I mean, they'll never be able to compete on a level platform with the WWE but I still just want the company to do well because I have a lot of friends over there. It's a good place for guys to work. It's a little bit different of a product. I think they need to differentiate the product even more from what the WWE is because they'll never be able to compete with that. But, that being said, they've got some interesting storylines and some interesting talent over there. It's an alternative.

IGN: Is the WWE just too big to take on?

Austin: The WWE is like the NFL. It's a powerhouse. It's been around so long. Their history is so strong. Their intellectual property...everything about the WWE is strong. There'll never be anything that's able to top it. You never want to say "never" but there's never going to be a wrestling company that tops WWE. Never.

IGN: You're one of the celebrities who have taken to Twitter. What is it about Twitter that you enjoy the most?

Austin: Back in the day, I enjoyed writing. In English class. Me of all people. A lot of people wouldn't think that. Man, I just get on there though and come up with the most ridiculous stories I can think of and, you know, I'll talk about my movies when they come out too. I have a website in the works, which will be up shortly. But Twitter is just a grass-roots way to stay in touch with my fanbase and I just enjoy it. I'm able to interact with them. I answer questions. And I just make up the most ridiculous tales I can come up with an post them. I have a lot of fun with it. I try not to use it to talk about any political things that are going on although I have dropped a few here and there. It's just a way to stay in touch with my fans. And actually, I just jumped on the Twitter ship long after it was created, but it's something I've really enjoyed. I use it as a creative outlet. It might have been a month or two ago but I posted a work out where I wrote that I was swimming in the pacific ocean and after the 16th mile a shark bit my leg off I just continued from there. Every 140 characters I just would continue the story. From that one story about a bulls*** workout I turned it into this whole epic story with sharks. Me fighting sharks. Sharks stealing my TV. And then it turned into a genetic experiment where I was trying to create a bigger chicken. Because I eat a lot of chicken on my diet. It all wound up with me crossing DNA together and coming up with a Chickensaurus I just make this stuff up on the fly. Half the people think I'm drunk and half the people think I'm f***ed up. Of which I am neither.

IGN: Yo do realize now that you're going to have to do a move where you battle sharks. And probably a Chickensaurus.

Austin: Hey, man. I'd love to do that. It would be an action-movie with some comedy in it. Which would be great because I've been wanting to do some comedy stuff anyway. I was really successful being a touch guy in the WWE and beating people up for a living and I had a damn good time doing it. But most of the time, even though I do take the things that I do and the movies that I make seriously, I like to laugh with people and at myself. I'm more of a comedian than I am a tough guy.

IGN: Well, we certainly enjoyed you on Chuck earlier this year.

Austin: I'd like to do more stuff like that. I had a great time doing that show and going back to what I was saying earlier: I don't watch a lot of TV. I'd never seen Chuck before. And then all of a sudden I'm on the set. That thing happened overnight. The script fell into my hands and then there I was working with Zach Levi and that dude is super-talented. And I enjoyed the experience. I would love to do more stuff like that.

IGN: I have to tell you...I started watching you way back in the USWA. They'd show it on ESPN.

Austin: You're kidding. Where did you grow up?

IGN: I grew up in New York City. So I would go to Madison Square Garden to watch the WWF, but if I wanted to see something different I'd have to watch cable. And ESPN had the USWA with you and Bill Dundee and Bull Pain.

Austin: You know, some of my favorite stuff growing up - I grew up a hundred miles south of Houston, Texas in a little town called Edna - and I was changing channels on TV one day and I found wrestling and it was Paul Boesch's Houston Wrestling over at the Houston Coliseum. And you know, back then wrestling a as real, right? And it was a smoke-filled arena and there was one light bulb over the ring and you could barely see the front row in the crowd. It was a badass atmosphere and I fell in love with it. And then we started getting Mid-South and Power Pro wrestling from Bills Watts? Did you ever see any of that?

IGN: I saw Mid-South. Oh yeah

Austin: Man, that was some good s***, with Jim Ross calling the action and Michael "PS" Hayes was doing a lot of the color commentary and Missy Hyatt and Dark Journey were feuding. Missy Hyatt had the loaded gucci bag - one of the most devastating weapons, or foreign objects, in all of wrestling. That was some good s***. These days, in my garage I have two cardio machines and a flat screen TV. I still watch wrestling. I love it. I'll always love it. I'm still hooked on it, I'm just not in it anymore. If want to watch really badass wrestling - I don't have a lot of Mid-South or Power Pro stuff - but I do have a lot of mid 80s NWA. So when I really want to watch something good I'll crank up my metal, or I'll have it at a low volume when Jim Ross is calling the action, and I'll just have a ball. That's when you had the best talent. The best hands. Everyone on the card could work their ass off. And you could tell that the guys were calling it in the ring. It wasn't like today. They had time. No one was rushing. And not every match had "carte blanche" to use the stairs, the ringpost, you had to learn how to work.

And that was one of the things I enjoyed the most when I first started off in the USWA - if you remember back then, Fritz Von Erich had just sold the territory, World Class which was badass, to Jerry Jarrett and it was turned into USWA and Eric Embry was the head booker and head babyface. I broke in there and after two months of them beating the hell out of me I asked Jerry when he thought I could start working full time and he said "Hell, Steve I think you're ready now. I'll send you to Tennessee in two weeks." Man, I quit my job and two weeks later I was driving my 1988 Hyundai Excel to Memphis to the Mid-South Coliseum. And long story short, I start working there and the good thing about the USWA was that we worked the same exact towns every single week over and over. Man, you talk about having to learn to work your ass off because you've always got to be thinking. You've always got to change it up in the ring. It's not like it is nowadays when you're working with the same guy and you can work town after town and not have the same fans there. You can do the same match every night. Use the same pops. Rely on yesterday's match and you lose your chops.

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The Stranger, starring Stone Cold Steve Austin, Adam Beach and Erica Cerra is available on DVD and Blu-Ray.

Audio: Austin on 106.7 The Fan DC Today

Source: 106.7 The Fan

Austin was on The LaVar Arrington Show with Chad Dukes today. Listen to the interview below:

If the file isn't working, click here to listen.

The Stranger Out Today!!!

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Audio: DVDSnapShot.com EXCLUSIVE! Interview with Steve Austin

Source: DVDSnapshot.com

From Stone Cold to "The Stranger"

Source: HomeMediaMagazine.com
By: John Latchem


Hoping to leave his “Stone Cold” nickname behind, Steve Austin has set off on the difficult transition from professional wrestling to movies. Anchor Bay Entertainment releases his latest thriller, The Stranger, June 1 on DVD ($26.97) and Blu-ray Disc ($34.98).

“My guys brought me the script, and I enjoyed reading it,” Austin said. “I thought it was a challenging role for me, especially trying to transition into acting. It wasn’t pushing my physicality, but my acting chops.”

In The Stranger, Austin plays a man trying to discover his past. Drifting through the streets with no memories, his mind periodically reprograms itself with a new personality, leading the stranger into dangerous situations where he leaves a trail of bodies in his wake. On his tail are an FBI agent (Adam Beach), who may be tied to the man’s former life, and a psychologist (Erica Cerra), who is trying to help him recover his memories.

“Someone asked me what it’s about, and I told them it’s a working man’s Bourne Identity,” Austin said.

With each clue, the stranger learns more about his true identity, keeping the audience guessing until the very end.

“You gotta stay on your toes,” Austin said. “It was an interesting experience to film a new personality every scene.”

Austin said director Robert Lieberman helped him keep track of the various personality changes required of the character. Austin’s favorite moments, he said, involved filming flashback scenes showing his character with his family.

“I enjoyed doing the scenes with the wife and daughter,” Austin said. “I liked that it showed a different side of me from the Stone Cold killer of my wrestling days — a much softer side.”

For WWE Hall of Famer Austin, acting in movies is a far cry from performing in the squared circle.

“Wrestling is like a violent form of Broadway,” Austin said. “You’re using the crowd to help you make your decisions. You play to what they want to see, and it’s a lot of ad libbing, which was one of my strong points — and it’s live. You shoot a movie out of order, and if something doesn’t work you call cut and do it again.”

Austin broke through to the big screen in 2005 with a small role in the Adam Sandler football comedy The Longest Yard, followed by a star turn in WWE Films’ The Condemned in 2007. It would be nearly three years before he got top billing in another movie, playing an underground cage fighter in the direct-to-video thriller Damage, released earlier this year by 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment.

“It took a while to follow up The Condemned, so it’s nice to finally have product of mine out there,” Austin said.

Next up for Austin is a role in Sylvester Stallone’s The Expendables, due in theaters in August, followed by a movie called Hunt to Kill, co-starring Eric Roberts.

At this point in his career, Austin said he doesn’t mind being associated with a particular kind of role.

“My physicality kind of points me in the direction of action,” Austin said. “So, I’ll do 20 action movies if I have to. I just want to work, and I want to be a good actor.”

UGO.COM The Stranger Poster and DVD Giveaway

Source: UGO.com

Are you ready for some Stone Cold prizes?

The good folks at Anchor Bay have given us something truly incredible.

We've got a limited edition theatrical poster for Steve Austin's newest action picture The Stranger autographed by the man himself. It'll be like one of those posters you see in theaters that you can backlight if you are really hardcore.

There are only five of these signed suckers in existence! (Scroll down to see unsigned version.)

We've also got five limited edition DVDs of the film with special 3D covers.

So who do you have to bodyslam to win something? Actually, there's no call for violence.

Here's how it works.

The contest will run from 12:01 AM on Saturday EST (that's just after midnight on Friday) through 11:59 on Monday night (that's just before Tuesday.) At some point during this window of time, we'll be giving the prizes away.

We'll post a secret message in the kicker of our Top Story on our homepage. The kicker is the punchy text below the headline. Here's a pic:

To win, copy the kicker and Tweet it to @ugodotcom.

The first to tweet wins the Grand Prize of the poster and the next five people will win the DVDs. All six winners will be contacted via a direct message - so be sure to follow @ugodotcom.


CLICK HERE FOR THE OFFICIAL RULES

Keep your eyes on UGO.com for your chance to win.

The Stranger BluRay DVD Giveaway

MovieRoomReviews.com is giving away "The Stranger" on DVD!

We are excited to offer ONE WINNER a copy of The Stranger Blu-ray in conjunction with its June 1st Blu-ray release. Entry in our giveaway is free and simple. Entry is open to anyone in the US and Canada (18 and Older – Rated R) for this promotion. One random winner will be drawn using random.org on June 1st, at or near 5PM CST. Please include your email in your entry or other easily accessible contact point so we can contact you if you win!

Click here to enter into the drawing!

BTW - Austin was NOT on the "Celebrity Apprentice". That was GOLDBERG!

Trailer: The Stranger

New Images from The Stranger

View more photos at the SAW.com Photo Gallery.

WWE.com Mentions "The Stranger" on Their Website

Source: WWE.com

WWE Hall of Famer “Stone Cold” Steve Austin stars in Anchor Bay Entertainment’s latest action-thriller, The Stranger, available on Blu-ray and DVD on June 1, 2010. The DVD edition of the film features a limited edition 3D cover.

The film's story revolves around The Texas Rattlesnake starring as a man with no name, no memory and absolutely nothing left to lose. However, when he finds himself hunted by both the FBI and the Russian mob, this amnesiac decides to fight back. Pursuit cannot stop him. Torture will not break him. And with every beating, bullet and betrayal, he’ll remember another piece of the horror that took away his career, his family and his identity. Now the puzzle is nearly complete, and one man is about to take back his past...by ending a whole lot of futures. Erica Cerra (Eureka) and Adam Beach (Flags of Our Fathers) star in this explosive action-thriller about collateral damage, stone cold vengeance, and a double-crossed killing machine known only as “The Stranger.”

For more information on The Stranger please visit www.thestranger-themovie.com.

New Details on "The Stranger" DVD

"The Stranger" DVD will have a limited edition 3D cover that is only available for the DVD release. The BluRay disc will not have the LE cover.

Both DVD's will have a 'Behind the Scenes' featurette and a Trailer as added bonus features.

You can pre-order on April 29th for DVD or BluRay. The official release date is June 1st.

'The Stranger' Confirmed to be on DVD/BluRay on June 1st

I had made a speculated post 2 weeks ago about The Stranger coming out on DVD this summer. Well, it is confirmed by Anchor Bay Entertainment that it indeed will be out on DVD & BluRay JUNE 1st!

Movie Plot
They Took His Job, His Family, And His Memory. Now One Man Is Taking It All Back... One Body At A Time. Pro wrestling legend Steve Austin stars as a man with no name, no memory and absolutely nothing left to lose. But when he finds himself hunted by both the FBI and the Russian mob, this amnesiac decides to fight back. Pursuit cannot stop him. Torture will not break him. And with every beating, bullet and betrayal, he’ll remember another piece of the horror that took away his career, his family and his identity. Now the puzzle is nearly complete, and one man is about to take back his past...by ending a whole lot of futures. Erica Cerra (EUREKA) and Adam Beach (FLAGS OF OUR FATHERS) star in this explosive action-thriller about collateral damage, stone cold vengeance, and a double- crossed killing machine known only as THE STRANGER.

You can visit the official movie website at: thestranger-themovie.com

The Stranger to be on BluRay This Summer?

HighDefDigest.com has reported that the Steve Austin film "The Stranger" will be out on BluRay June 1, 2010.

But... Austin stated via Twitter to a fan who asked about the movie release:
"yes. i completed the stranger 6 months ago. dont know the release date."

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HDD is stating that: In a press advertisement, it seems Anchor Bay Entertainment will be releasing 'The Stranger' also starring Erica Cerra and Adam Beach for a high-definition release on June 1.

I checked out the official Anchor Bay Entertainment website myself, and I didn't see anything reguarding a press release or word of the movie.

Stay tuned....

Steve Austin in The Stranger

Source: Mania.com

While there's no story or plot details to pass along in this next film, Stone Cold Steve Austin fans may be interested to hear that the wrestler-turned-actor has another action-thriller lined up for next year. With Austin, the Nasser Entertainment Group and Caliber Media Co. having just completed their fight film Damage, the trio are teaming up for a new action-thriller called The Stranger for 2010.


Production will handled by director Rob Lieberman in Vancouver this summer in hopes of getting it into theaters sometime next year.

Damage, which has just wrapped up for a 2009 release, stars Steve Austin, Walton Goggins, Laura Vandervort and Donnelly Rhodes. Jeff King helmed the project.

Video Haul: The Stranger

Videos from the pass few months... Steve Austin in The Stranger.

Steve at ComicCon




Behind the Scenes & Stunts




On the Set