DOLPH: UNBREAKABLE — Entertainment Weekly Drops Trailer
Sometimes the story changes you too. Today is a pretty special day for the ScoreG family.
Entertainment Weekly has exclusively premiered the official trailer for Dolph: Unbreakable, along with a deeply personal interview with Dolph about his cancer battle, his family, his career and the fact that, at one point during production, he genuinely didn't know if he would be alive to see this film released.
I grew up watching Dolph Lundgren. He was Ivan Drago in Rocky IV, He-Man in Masters of the Universe, Red Scorpion, the original Punisher, and Jack Caine in Dark Angel, a lesser-known sci-fi I loved as a kid. He was one of those larger-than-life action stars we watched as kids, so years later, getting the opportunity to produce a documentary about him was obviously pretty damn cool.
But that's not really what this post is about.
One of the things I love most about making documentaries is that somewhere along the way, if you're fortunate enough to spend enough time with the people you're filming, the subject stops being a "subject." The movie star becomes a person, you get to know their family, and eventually you genuinely start to care about the people whose story you've been trusted to tell.
We spent years travelling with Dolph through several countries, sitting with him for countless hours and getting to know not only the action star, but Dolph the father, husband, son and friend. We got to know his lovely wife, Emma, and his daughters, Ida and Greta. We learned about his childhood, his complicated relationship with his father, his insecurities, successes, mistakes and the experiences that shaped the guy behind this almost mythical Hollywood image.
Then Dolph told us he had cancer.
I'll never forget being in Sweden when he opened up to us about what he was going through and how serious it had become. Director Andrew Holmes and I were in tears. It wasn't because we suddenly realized we had some dramatic new turn for the documentary. It was because, by that point, we cared about Dolph and his family, and our friend was sick.
Reading Dolph talk about that moment today in Entertainment Weekly brought a lot of those emotions back. He remembers telling our documentary team and seeing how shocked and emotional we were. He also talks about the incredibly difficult reality he was facing at the time: doctors had given him a prognosis that made him question whether he would even be around to see the documentary premiere.
That realization fundamentally changed the film we were making.
Emma began capturing incredibly intimate footage from hospitals when our cameras couldn't be there, particularly during COVID. Dolph allowed us into one of the most vulnerable periods of his life. What began as a documentary about an iconic action star slowly became something much more personal, a film about family, childhood trauma, mortality, forgiveness, love, resilience and ultimately what it actually means to be strong.
Thankfully, we now know where this chapter of Dolph's story leads. He's cancer-free. Being able to write that sentence while watching the trailer finally go out into the world is something I don't take for granted.
It's also why, in my humble opinion, documentary filmmaking can be so incredibly special. I have tremendous respect for scripted filmmakers, but what we get to do is different. We're not creating fictional characters and then saying goodbye when production wraps. We're being trusted with an intimate slice of someone's actual life. You travel together. You sit in their homes. You meet their wives, husbands, kids and closest friends. You hear things people may have never spoken about publicly. Sometimes you're there for the greatest moments of their lives, and sometimes you're standing beside them during the hardest. When you spend years doing that, it becomes impossible not to form real relationships.
And with that comes a responsibility that our team takes very seriously. Dolph trusted us with his story. Emma trusted us during moments when she and Dolph were going through something incredibly frightening. Their daughters and family opened their lives to us. We wanted to make something worthy of that trust and something that showed audiences a side of Dolph they had never really been allowed to see before.
There are obviously some pretty amazing people in this film, Sylvester Stallone, Arnold Schwarzenegger and Jean-Claude Van Damme among them, and hearing these icons talk about Dolph is incredible. But for me, the most powerful moments aren't necessarily about the movie star. They're the moments where you forget you're watching Ivan Drago and simply see a man reflecting honestly on his life.
Dolph says something in the Entertainment Weekly interview that really captures the film for me. He talks about discovering a different kind of strength as he's gotten older, strength that comes from being open and allowing yourself to be vulnerable. That's a long way from the seemingly indestructible guy we grew up watching on screen, and it's probably the biggest reason I'm so proud of this film.
A massive thank-you to Dolph, Emma and the entire Lundgren family for trusting us and becoming friends along the way. Thank you to our entire filmmaking team who travelled this journey with us, and to Entertainment Weekly for giving Dolph the space to speak so openly and for exclusively launching our trailer today.
And, as always, a huge thank-you to Super Channel for continuing to believe in our films and giving Canadian documentaries like this a home. Dolph: Unbreakable will make its Canadian broadcast premiere on October 16, 2026 at 9 p.m. ET on Super Channel Fuse and will be available On Demand the same day.
The film takes viewers inside the remarkable life and career of Dolph Lundgren, but what I hope people discover is the man behind the action hero, his childhood, family, successes and failures, the relationships that shaped him, and ultimately the cancer battle that forced him to confront his own mortality and redefine what being strong actually means.
As a kid, I knew Dolph Lundgren as Drago, He-Man and The Punisher. After spending the last several years helping tell his story, I feel incredibly fortunate to know him simply as Dolph.
And I'm even more grateful that he's here, healthy, and able to tell the world his story himself.
This is Dolph: Unbreakable.
U.S. — October 6 on VOD and digital platforms.
Canada — October 16 at 9 p.m. ET on Super Channel Fuse and available On Demand the same day.
Hope everyone digs the trailer, and we can't wait for everyone to finally see it.
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