No one knows the next time we’ll see Randy Couture fighting for real in a cage or ring, but we do know the multi-time UFC champ will be seen in fight action at some point in the next year.

Couture just signed on to another movie project entitled “Warrior,” and it’s an MMA-themed film about two estranged brothers on a collision course to a fight. (Wonder if it’s based on the Shamrocks?) Couture will play himself in the movie, which will begin shooting in January 2009.

Many hardcore MMA fans weren’t too happy with this year’s MMA movie offering “Never Back Down,” calling it “The Fast & The Furious” meets MMA, but those fans will be interested to know that Gavin O’Connor, the director of this project, has an impressive resume. He directed 2004’s ice hockey film “Miracle,” and was also the executive producer on the very well-received MMA documentary “The Smashing Machine,” which chronicled the struggles of early MMA legend Mark Kerr.

Couture is also signed on to another movie entitled Mandrake, a comic book adaptation which will also feature Jonathan Rhys Meyers and Criss Angel.

In another bit of Couture news, his autobiography “Becoming the Natural” moves to No. 20 on the New York Times bestseller list this week.