Sylvester Stallone proves he really did get a broken neck by Stone Cold Steve Austin by posting his actual X-Ray photos over at Stallonezone. He also says Van Damme is full of crap and lying in that controversial video.
Check out Sly’s x-ray photos and read his letter over at Stallonezone:
In that video, I posted several blog posts down where Jean Claude Van Damme explains at a press conference on why he turned town the “Expendables” movie, Jean Claude has been getting a lot of hate on the internet about that video. A lot of fans accuse Jean Claude of acting like an asshole by making fun of Sly’s speaking voice and disrespecting him. Many fans accuse Jean Claude of trying to make Sylvester Stallone look like a greedy rich guy. In this video, Jean Claude explains the reason he turned it down is because, Jean Claude was asking Sly what’s his character and more information about the role he was playing. Sly replied back, “I’m going to make you a star and you’ll get rich”, in this video. So that upset Van Damme which forced him to turn the project down.
Who’s in the right? Is it Sylvester Stallone? Or is it Jean Claude Van Damme? I think Van Damme is doing the right thing here…and here is why.
When you’re a famous Hollywood actor, most actors take their careers so seriously. Actors want to make sure the role they’re playing that is right for them, plus they want to make their paychecks worthy. They don’t care if you’re Sylvester Stallone, Steven Spielberg or Clint Eastwood. Actors will turn the roles down if they don’t like the story and not giving enough information on the film.
Jean Claude has nothing negative against Sylvester Stallone. He made it clear at the end of the video, that Jean Claude respects him as an actor, writer and director. Also around this time Jean Claude was asked by Sly to star in the movie, I’m sure Sly hasn’t yet written a character for Van Damme for the script. Maybe Sly was going to write up a character for him after he agreed to do the film, but Sly didn’t give him enough information, so Van Damme said no.
Jean Claude may not have a successful career in his Hollywood life, he may have had a few huge blockbusters such as “Bloodsport”, “Universal Soldier” and maybe a few others…but Van Damme’s latest film, “JCVD” was a success in the indie film industry. “JCVD” did well overseas in box office and the film even did decent in the U.S. as well. I like Van Damme always had. Maybe Van Damme doesn’t have a lot of Blockbuster hits ’cause he doesn’t want to be a blockbuster star? I see him just doing it for the love of acting, not caring if the movie is a hit or a failure. Van Damme may have poked fun at Sly’s speaking voice in that video but hey, who cares. A lot of people make fun of Sly’s speaking voice ’cause it’s funny sounding. That’s one of the main reason’s why I like Sly ’cause his speaking voice is unique. Never heard anyone talk like that before.
My point is that Van Damme did nothing wrong. He has his right for an opinion and he has the right to do what he pleases. He maybe kind of an ass in that video, I agree, but so what. Van Damme is just being a profesional and an actor. Sly’s idea of this movie was to have a bunch of bad ass action stars all in the same film. I’m sure Sly tried asking many other action stars to be a part of this film like Kurt Russell, Jackie Chan, Chuck Norris, Steven Seagal, and many others, but I’m sure their reasons for turning the film down was much worse than Van Damme’s.
So this whole Van Damme thing isn’t such a big deal at all and I don’t see why action movie fans are so fed up. Even some die hard fans of Jean Claude are upset at him over the video. If Van Damme is happy doing straight to video movies and indie films, that’s where he wants to be. I thought “JCVD” was a great film and yes, it is a box office success. Look it up in boxofficemojo for yourself. I also respect Van Damme a whole lot ’cause he’s one of the most talented athlete’s than any action star in history. Van Damme has years of martial arts experience, a great bodybuilder who’s still in great shape and all that.
Van Damme is just being honest and keeping things real when it comes to films. I just think action fans took Van Damme’s comments out of context and it was blown out of proportion.
Kev
Jean Claude Van Damme was at some unknown press conference here, doing a Q&A thing with the press and of course, somebody had to ask him why he turned down Stallone’s movie, “The Expendables”. Simply the reason, because Sly wouldn’t give details on the character Van Damme was supposed to play. Van Damme asked many times what the character is and Sly just kept saying it’s going to be a great action movie that will make him lots of money.
I’m a huge fan of Sly and all but if what Van Damme said is true, Sly needs to be a profesional if he wants to be a director. It’s the directors job to explain to the cast what the characters are. Kudos to Van Damme for being real.
Kev
In the upcoming, new Stallone flick, “The Expendables”, set to release in August 2010… Sly admits to FHM magazine that he had a serious injury while filming a real fight scene with Stone Cold Steve Austin (former WWE superstar). Sly revealed that he was taken to the emergency room. He had major surgery and says he now has a metal plate in his neck.
He also revealed that Dolph Lundgren almost killed him when Sly ordered him to knock him out for a scene.
Read this shocking story here:
Geez, Sly. How much longer are you going to keep doing action films doing your own stunts? Sly is doing “Rambo V” next and I wonder if he’ll keep doing real fighting in the next Rambo movie? Probably.
Sly is going to kill himself doing this, lol!!!!
Kev
What did Sylvester Stallone do on his Christmas day? Yep, that’s right. Instead of spending his day with family, he spent most of it, watching the L.A. Lakers game at the Staples Center. Here he is at the arena, chatting it up with “Heroes” star, Hayden Pannettiere. Hayden seems to be really into him ’cause notice how close she’s standing to him.
Wonder if Sly is asking her for a part in the next Rambo film? Hope Sly’s wife is cool with this.
Kev
Stallone and his wife, Jennifer Flavin, both attended an art gallery show where people sold their art work. Other than making movies, Sly does other hobbies for fun. Besides working out in the gym and collecting old cars, Sly is also a painter.
Sly showed off his work that he did himself at the art gallery and he sold them to a fan named, Steve Wynn.
Check out Sly’s work here:
http://craigzablo.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=SlyTalk&action=display&thread=9480
Sly doesn’t want to be famous and well known for his art work, he never publishes his art work for the public to see. He just does it as a hobby, plain and simple. It’s what he does when he is not working on film.
Kev
Sylvester Stallone is still on the hunt for the old Cobra car that Stallone drove from one of his popular films simply titled, “Cobra”. Well, Stallone himself found it. He saw it being sold on an internet auction for classic cars that was held by a movie car company (noticing TMZ left the company name out of the article so TMZ won’t get sued).
In Sly’s suit, he is, of course, asking for his car back and asking for 3 million for infringing his name and image without permission. Sly wrote the lawsuit in style, by beginning it with “Crime is a disease, meet the cure”, hilarious!
http://www.tmz.com/2009/12/01/sylvester-stallone-cobra-stolen-car-mercury-lawsuit/
It’s no secret that Sly loves cars. He’s a car collector big time, especially the vintage vehicles. It be badass to see Sly drive the Cobra car again, so hope he gets it back successfully!
Kev
Sylvester Stallone, wrote an open letter to Stallonezone fans, announcing that he has changed the story to, “Rambo V”. Sly says to his fans that he won’t be doing the plot mixed with sci-fi, where Rambo hunts down this half human and half monster.
Sly is doing the plot where Rambo goes to a border to find missing women that disappeared from America. He’s going back to the plot idea he had before.
Read it here:
http://stallonezone.com/wordpress/?p=1847
Sly obviously reads the internet, quite a lot if he is sitting here reading feedback by people. Sly said in the letter he is a supporter of the Stallonezone fan site, so he obviously reads the message board daily, noticing he says, “Szoners”.
I like the finding missing women plot better than the sci fi idea. I like both plot ideas, but Rambo finding missing women seems more realistic though.
I’m glad Sly says there will be blood and it’s going to be a hard R rating like the last Rambo.
Sly’s a good man, he knows what his fans wants and I love how he pays attention to them!
Kev
Rumours hit the internet that Sylvester Stallone is working on another Rocky, the 7th installment to continue from where it left off from, “Rocky Balboa”.
Of course, the public is shitting on it, accusing Sly that he’s too old to do another Rocky, the public don’t want another one, blah blah blah.
The rumours probably isn’t true, but if it is. Why not? The more Rocky, the better. “Rocky Balboa” was a really good movie, but it could have been made much better.
What plot would Sly have for “Rocky 7”? Would Sly train another boxer? No, that would be a repeat of Rocky V, since Rocky was a retired boxer training another fighter, that Tommy Gunn guy.
What if Rocky’s son, Robert Balboa Jr. dreams of becoming a boxer and Rocky tries to get his son a boxing career? Sounds like a good enough plot to me.
There are many ideas that could make another Rocky movie work and that people would like. Remember, back when Sly announced he was doing Rocky 6, everybody hated that idea too, but when the movie actually came out and it became, “Rocky Balboa”, Sly is all of a sudden respected by movie fans.
So don’t immediately assume that, “Rocky 7” would suck if Sly really did decide to work on it. This is called creative writing. Sly is always coming up with ideas.
If Sly is still doing action movies doing his own stunts in the “Expendables” and he will probably do his own stunts in “Rambo 5”, I don’t see why he can’t be physical for another Rocky. Why not?
I’d say do another one. I’m sure Sly will speak out on this soon, to say whether this news is true or not. Probably not, but it would be cool.
Kev
Arnold, Sly and Bruce already completed filming their scene for the Expendables. They filmed in a church. Arnold plays a character named, Trench.
Read the full report by Sly’s publicist here:
http://ethelmae.wordpress.com/2009/10/25/wow/
Expect photos to hit net later tonight or tomorrow.
I expect paparrazi videos to hit youtube and of course TMZ as well.
Kev
Edit to add: The above photo is NOT a photo from the Expendables movie, it’s just a random google image, an older pic for this blog.
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