LOS ANGELES, Feb. 24 (UPI) -- Jean-Claude Van Damme is set to star as himself in Amazon's upcoming action comedy series Jean-Claude Van Johnson.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, Van Damme will be playing an exaggerated version of himself who comes out of retirement from Hollywood to continue work as a private security contractor.
Using his day job as the lead actor in a new film version of Huckleberry Finn as cover, the series will feature the action star chasing after the real-life adventures he always wanted.
Dave Callaham, who collaborated with Van Damme on The Expendables 2 is writing the script and executive producing the project along with Ridley Scott and David Zucker.
This marks Van Damme's first time starring in a television series and the second time portraying himself, having appeared in 2008's JCVD which featured the 55-year-old caught in the middle of a post office robbery in his home country of Belgium.
