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Iron Maiden frontman Bruce Dickinson made a special one-day appearance at Fan Expo Canada, hosted at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre on August 28, 2026, as per Blabbermouth. During a Q&A session with attendees, the legendary singer was asked about his current non-musical ventures and projects outside of his ongoing work with Iron Maiden, offering the audience a glimpse into his latest endeavors outside the music world.
Well, there’s a couple of things I’m doing filmically. One is a project to do with a… Well, basically a friend of mine’s a movie producer, and we’ve been fencing for years, since 1987 or something like. And we met up in Los Angeles, and he said, ‘We’re gonna do a movie about fencing.’ Basically ‘The Karate Kid’, but using modern-day fencing in the run-up to the Olympics. And I went, ‘Yeah, that’s kind of cool.’ And he’s got a guy called Rob Edwards, who’s an A-lister, a Disney writer, who’s gonna write it.
And so he said, ‘Do you wanna be the baddie?’ I went, ‘Yeah, I’ll be the baddie.’ It’s always gonna be the English guys who are gonna be the baddie. We’re just bad people, aren’t we? So, yeah, so that’s not filling my rearview mirror at the moment because it’s, like, ‘Yeah, okay, I’ll do that. Let me know when you’ve got the funding for it.’ At the same time, I’m working on a screenplay, which is an offshoot of my comic, graphic novel, ‘The Mandrake Project’. So it’s not ‘The Mandrake Project’ ’cause I’m still halfway through finishing the third book, which will be out next year, and then the whole thing will be done, and we can put out a 500-page graphic novel.
But it actually takes place after the end of this series of ‘Mandrake’. ‘Cause a friend of mine’s a director in Brazil. I’ve just shot five music videos in the desert and various other places with him in the last week… But we’ve got some cool guys in it. We’ve got [horror icon] Bill Moseley, is in it, [along with fellow horror legends] Linnea Quigley, Michael Berryman — very cool. It’s gonna be about a 45-minute piece when it’s all finished. But there’ll be individual videos as well. So, the film is really good fun.
But it’s expensive and time-consuming. But that’s okay. So I’m doing that. Finishing up ‘Mandrake’. My [next] solo album’s coming out early next year. [I’ve got a] great [solo] band. We’re touring, headlining in Europe, making a big step up to larger theaters. So that’s all very exciting. And, of course, with Maiden, we’ve got plans through till… Ooh, well… I know what I’m doing up until the end of 2028, put it that way.
