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The legal battle continues between UFC and Heavyweight Champion Randy Couture, but the popular 44 year old champ isn't just sitting back waiting to be deposed. With two movies already in the can, Couture is traveling to China to film his third film. It appears as though "The Natural" has been cast in "Mandrake."
According to leading Mixed Martial Arts news website MMA News Desk.Com  Mandrake is a comic strip that was first drawn in 1934 by Lee Falk. The character has fought aliens, mad scientists and common thugs using his fast hypnotic technique.

"One movie website said that the technique seems to be a lot like an ultra-effective Jedi mind trick mixed with Professor X from the X-Men, in that Mandrake waves his hand and can project psychic illusions to those under his spell," commented MMA News Desk editor Arturo Collozo Jr.

He adds, "So now you take that premise and give it an ultra-cool action-film veneer and you have the movie Mandrake, directed by Chuck Russel and slated for release later this year with Jonathan Rhys Meyers attached to play the conjurer."
 
Couture just recently finished filming a starring role in THE SCORPION KING: RISE OF THE AKKADIAN.