Ready to make your own action movie, but don’t have the big bucks to get started? Get locked and loaded with the instructional guidebook Badass on a Budget from stuntman and action star Eric Jacobus (God of War, Man Who Feels No Pain), who built his career in the trenches of low-budget martial arts movies and now works with the best in the business.
“Eric is undoubtedly one of the most inventive action stars and filmmakers out there. His creativity and skill as an action performer in projects like Rope-a-Dope and Blindsided were awe-inspiring to me. Watching Eric in action is always amazing, so I can’t think of a better guy to write a book about it,” says actor Scott Adkins (Prisoner of War, John Wick 4, Ip Man 4).
Never has there been a more savvy tutorial in print that guides the reader on a path to winning through creativity and crafting an action film on a next-to-no-budget. It is peppered with true stories of how one scrappy guy was inspired by Hong Kong martial arts movies to make his own. He had virtually nothing but knowledge, naivete, and the desire to just go out there and do it himself because no one else would.
Jacobus offers an entertaining, slam-bang roundhouse-kick of a book that every indie-spirited filmmaker will find invaluable for honing their craft.
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This is a one-of-a-kind reading experience featuring visual aids and a rapid-fire, step-by-step process that is almost scientifically precise, uniquely geared toward fans of action and martial arts. If you’ve ever wanted to make an action movie but never had the means, don’t let that stop you. Now you can be “badass on a budget.”
In 2025, Jacobus published his best-selling book, If These Fists Could Talk: A Stuntman’s Unflinching Take on Violence, which explores the intersection of violence and art. He is an avid researcher and regularly speaks at conferences on topics ranging from the science of violence to the anthropology of martial arts cinema.
Badass on a Budget is now available on Amazon.
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