Jean-Claude Van Damme has a message for the world: He’s back, and he’s cooking up something that should please longtime fans of the martial artist-actor’s back catalog.
“Finally… I’m back,” the Timecop star wrote in a post shared to the platform formerly known as Twitter on Tuesday (Nov. 10). “A new chapter is being born. Love.”
The post marked Van Damme’s first on the platform in over a year. In August 2025, the 66-year-old teased that he’d been keeping an unspecified project “a secret for way too long,” though fans would soon be made privy to the news.
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“Prepare for the Jean-Claude Van Damme you’ve never known,” he said at the time. “Each of you will be part of this story.”
It’s likely that Van Damme’s latest tease is a nod to Katana, a recently announced film set in Japan that’s set to see him joined by real-life martial arts stars. Deadline reported earlier this month that the film, helmed by Jeremy Zag, is expected to start shooting in April of next year.
Van Damme last appeared in The Gardener, a French film, in 2025, though it’s been a while since he touched the box office heights he enjoyed at the peak of his career. He has spoken publicly about his past issues with drug abuse, and his struggles with bipolar disorder.
Back in 2016, Van Damme made headlines after he peculiarly argued in a TMZ interview that “right now, we need Donald Trump.”
