Feb 28, 2008 by Brian Gallagher

EXCLUSIVE VIDEO: Never Back Down Featurette!

Never Back Down is hitting the theaters on March 14, but we've got the perfect video to get you pumped up for this fighting film. We have an exclusive featurette with the star of the film, Sean Faris and professional MMA fighter and trainer Bas Rutten showing you how to perform a few takedowns. Check out this exclusive video below.


Set against the action-packed world of Mixed Martial Arts, Never Back Down is the story of Jake Tyler, a tough kid who leads with his fists, and, often, with his heart. Jake Tyler, played by Sean Faris, is the new kid in town with a troubled past. He has recently moved to Orlando, Florida with his family who has relocated to support his younger brother's shot at a professional tennis career. Jake was a star athlete on the football team at home, but in this new city he is an outsider with a reputation for being a quick tempered brawler.

Making an attempt to fit in, at the invitation of a flirtatious classmate, Baja (Amber Heard), Jake goes to a party where he is unwittingly pulled into a fight with a bully named Ryan McDonald (Cam Gigandet). While he is defeated and humiliated in the fight, a classmate introduces himself to Jake and tells him about the sport known as Mixed Marshall Arts (MMA). He sees a star in Jake and asks that he meet with his mentor, Jean Roqua, played by Djimon Hounsou.

It is immediately apparent to Jake that MMA is not street fighting, but rather an art form he wants to master. Roqua will take Jake under his wing, but it is up to Jake to find the patience, discipline, willingness and reason within him to succeed. For Jake, there is much more at stake than mere victory. His decision will not just settle a score; it will define who he is.

Never Back Down was released March 14th, 2008 and stars Sean Faris, Amber Heard, Cam Gigandet, Evan Peters, Leslie Hope, Djimon Hounsou, Wyatt Smith, Affion Crockett. The film is directed by Jeff Wadlow.

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Comments (11)

  1. Marcusx

    hahah theyre called free runners and they were in the first of the scion commercials lol

    4 years agoby @marcusxFlag

  2. Phatlightning

    yea, I always wanted to be one of those aggresive walkers? is what I believe they're called, the ones that run up walls and jump from rooftop to rooftop, I think their in Kia commercials or something.. of course by the time your 30 you will have blown out both knees and needed reconstructive surgery on your spinal column, but at least you will be able to tell your grand kids you were one crazy son of a bitch in your prime.

    4 years agoby @sxers2k1Flag

  3. Marcusx

    haha well he was raise in a neighborhood where running from the police was as easy as stepping outside and saying howdy to your neighbors or just getting your mail. he had to get excersize that way. its just how they did it back then, and prolly still if you live in the ghetto around NY city or LA hahaha

    4 years agoby @marcusxFlag

  4. Phatlightning

    i used to till I pulled a hami, that cut my season short.. turns out i'm just not as limber as Billy Blanks

    4 years agoby @sxers2k1Flag

  5. Marcusx

    omg thats the funniest thing i have ever heard PL hahahahahaaha! i wuold do the same thing while jamming to billy blanks tae-bo wearing nothin but a sweatband around my head in my bathroom lol yes i do aerobic excersize in the RR...doesnt everyone?

    4 years agoby @marcusxFlag

  6. Phatlightning

    its already a guilty pleasure of mine, so are crazy dance movies like stomp the yard and you got served.. sometimes I like to spike my hair like the blonde in you got served and dance battle myself in front of the mirror... dont judge me. i'm different.

    4 years agoby @sxers2k1Flag

  7. Marcusx

    of course it will. i just wana see the fight scenes. i sound like a schmuck but maybe this will be one of those lil guilty pleasures i have haha

    4 years agoby @marcusxFlag

  8. Phatlightning

    eh, still thinking about seeing it in theaters, but I think with a movie like this it will hit the DVD shelves very fast

    4 years agoby @sxers2k1Flag

  9. Err

    i saw the trailer for this somewhere and i remember thinking "no wonder there are so few good movies out there, people will watch anything" .

    4 years agoby @err2005Flag

  10. CelluloidDreams

    I saw "Never Back Down" at an advance screening on 02/26/2008, & it was exaclty what the trailers showed. Not something that I would have paid $5.00 to see at the matinee showing, but would have waited till hit it the DVD rental shelf.

    It was "The Karate Kid" Meets "Kickbocker" for the YouTube generation!

    Average plot, standard cardboard characters W./a "VERY" predictable ending!!

    4 years agoby @2movieguysFlag

  11. Marcusx

    i kno this is a modern day karate kid and its kind of a rip off a bit with a similar story and different fighting style but for some reason i really wana see it still hahaha

    4 years agoby @marcusxFlag

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