Sylvester Stallone attended this year’s Los Angeles Film Festival and he announced some shocking news. The man plans to hang it up on acting for good but, he wants to concentrate on directing only.

More on it here:

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ukpress/article/ALeqM5imhevyayKx7J-VFdRjhzPw15X2Fg

Honestly, he doesn’t have to hang up on acting for good. There are plenty of aging actors that are still acting in film today: Robert Deniro, Al Pacino, Anthony Hopkins, Ian McKellen, Harrison Ford, Michael Douglas, etc. The list can go on. Eastwood returned to leading roles for “Gran Torino” and Mel Gibson is back in leading roles too.

This makes you wonder about Sly’s “John Gotti” biopic project that is rumoured to be planned. Will Sly play in the film or will he just direct it, and not star? Don’t know, I’m sure Sly will speak out on the “John Gotti” rumour soon. This wasn’t the first time that Sly directed a movie and not act in the leading role. Remember, the movie “Staying Alive”? Yep, Sly wrote and directed that film, but didn’t star the leading role. John Travolta did, obviously. So Sly does have experience in directing films but not acting in them.

That would be kind of cool if Sly directs action movies and not star. I’m pretty sure Sly would want to work with Jason Statham some more. So maybe Sly will direct more movies that will star Statham and not Sly. I definitely see Sly and Statham working on much more movies together in the future for sure. They’ve grown quite the friendship during their filming of “The Expendables”.

Kev