Oh my, did I hear this correctly? Did Sly just say he’s looking to sign Dolph Lundgren for “Expendables”? Remember, Sly starred with Dolph in Rocky IV when Dolph played Ivan Drago. It be kick ass to see Sly and Dolph in a movie again!!! Hope Sly gets him.
Sly the man himself said so at the Transporter 3 premiere.
Kev
Nu Image/Millenium will bring Stallone’s “Expendables” overseas so the film can be shown world wide, not just the U.S.A. The film has been sold to the U.K., California Filmes for Brazil and Latin America, Odeon for Greece, and to Dutch Filmworks for the Benelux region.
Expect the film to be sold to many more countries in the world.
Variety Reports:
http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117995621.html?categoryid=13&cs=1
This is no surprise to me that “Expendables” would be a world wide release. While Sly Stallone is extremely popular in the USA, Sly is even bigger in other countries overseas as well. I think Sly is the most popular in Japan.
I wonder what the name of Sly’s character will be in “Expendables”. When Sly is writing his own scripts for his own movies, one thing he is good at is coming up with creative names for characters.
One thing to keep in mind though, that “Expendables” is NOT his first film that he has written, directed, and starred the leading role in outside of Rocky and Rambo. His first film that he starred, written, and directed outside of Rocky and Rambo was “Paradise Alley”. “Paradise Alley” a film about profesional wrestling made in 1978 a few years after the first “Rocky” was made.
Sly has written scripts for many of the movies he has starred in but didn’t direct. For example, Sly wrote the films “Cliffhanger”, “Driven”, “Over the Top” and “Cobra”, he wrote and starred in those films but didn’t direct them.
I’m happy Sly wants to direct a lot more. He is very talented at that. I’d love to see this man win an Oscar for Best Director if he picks the right film that will be Oscar worthy but it definitely won’t be “Expendables”, but maybe when Sly will ever get that movie about Edgar Allan Poe off the ground, he’ll have a chance at an Oscar then.
Kev
Most of today’s action films have been pretty bad with most action films being full of CGI and being mostly a popcorn movie. Good action movies are slowly starting to make a comeback with Sly’s “Rambo 4”, Jason Bourne films and the new James Bond films with Daniel Craig are good examples of good new action movies. I think Sly is about ready to revive the action genre. Bring good action movies back.
I can definitely see “Expandables” to be even more violent and gory than Rambo 4. “Expandables” will be a serious action movie with non stop action all the way through. I can definitely see Jason Statham, Jet Li and even Stallone himself each getting into brutal fight scenes with the badguys. We all know Stallone, Statham and Jet Li will be playing the leading heros of the film, now Sly will have to start looking for the villains.
I think Sly should get Bruce Willis as the villain in this flick. Maybe even Arnold too. I’m just so happy that Sly is not backing down on action movies. He probably figured if he can still do Rambo, he can still do action. In the past, Sly used to complain about being too old getting into action films and looks like he changed his mind.
I hope Sly continues to write, direct and star in action films ’cause that’s what he’s best at. I’m pretty sure “Expendables” will be a box office smash. It definitely won’t be a box office bomb or a direct to DVD release with this film being released through Nu Image/Millenium. “Expendables” will be HUGE!
I will be keeping an eye on this new movie “Expendables” to see who Sly is going cast for the film and more insight on the plot on the film. Hopefully Sly will make this film about 2 hours or more, I don’t want it to be a short 90 minutes. “Expendables” is a cool movie title too. I like it.
Kev
Sylvester Stallone is set to star the leading role and direct an action film titled “Expendables”. This is one of the two film deals Sly made with Nu Image/Millenium from last year. Sly wrote the script for the film. Jason Statham has signed on to co-star alongside Sly and Jet Li is in final negotiations to star in the film as well.
The story to “Expendables” centers around a team of mercernaries on a mission to overthrow the South American dictator. Filming of “Expendables” will begin in February in Costa Rica and Louisiana.
Jason Statham is an action movie star who starred in such films as “The Transporter” trilogy, “The Bank Job”, “Crank”, and his latest movie “Death Race”.
Variety Reports:
http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117995350.html?categoryid=13&cs=1
FINALLY! WOOT! Glad Sly finally announced his next movie. I knew he had something up his sleeve.
I’m glad it’s not a sequel to one of his older movies or a remake, and happy Sly is doing something original next!
“Expendables” sounds great. Looking forward to it. CONGRATS SLY! 🙂
Kev
Sly and his brother Frank Stallone walking out of a restaurant after a lunch with Arnold.
The reason I think Sly is so nice to the paparrazi and his fans, is simply because Sly is enjoying his fame.
Why the hell is Sly Stallone spending so much time with Arnold lately? Is that a sign that Sly and Arnold will work on a film together in the future? Is that what they’re planning? Fingers crossed on this one.
Enjoy.
Kev
Sly and his brother Frank Stallone walking out of a restaurant after a lunch with Arnold.
The reason I think Sly is so nice to the paparrazi and his fans, is simply because Sly is enjoying his fame.
Why the hell is Sly Stallone spending so much time with Arnold lately? Is that a sign that Sly and Arnold will work on a film together in the future? Is that what they’re planning? Fingers crossed on this one.
Enjoy.
Kev
In this video, Sylvester Stallone was spotted in public in Beverly Hills, California.
This is one thing I love about Sly Stallone. Everywhere he goes, he doesn’t mind being bothered by fans. He’s always nice and so polite, he’s willing to talk to his fans or sign autographs. Sly is always so good with his fans. It shows that he really cares for people that cares for him.
As you see this, Sly is driving his black car which looks expensive, and he’s parking it behind an apartment building. As Sly got out of the car, the cameraman yells, “Hey Mr. Stallone”, Sly turns around and says in a Rocky like tone, “Hey, how are you guys doin’?” Then they ask if he’s working on any new movies. And Stallone says, “Oh yeah, you’ll be surprised”. Then the cameraman asks Sly if he could give any hints or clues on what film he’s working on next. Then Sly jokes, “It’ll be Rambo vs. The Muppets”, lol.
Notice how Sly brings his Rocky character to real life? He gets into this Rocky personality when he gets recognized by a fan in public. I think that’s what Rocky is, shows how Stallone is in real life, the way he talks.
Whether Sly is working on a Rambo film or not at least he’s working on something. You can see he’s being pretty secretive about his next movie, he’s not ready to reveal what he’s working on yet. When he’s ready to announce his next film, he will announce it when the time is right. It’s cool that Sly doesn’t mind the paparrazi.
Enjoy this video.
Kev
Is Sylvester a world traveler or what? He sure is. 🙂
Just after receiving his Golden Icon life achievement award at the Zurich Festival he flew right over to Bulgaria in search of filming locations for the next Rambo installment.
While there, Sly meets the Sofia Mayor Boyko Borisov in person since Mayor Boyko is a huge fan of Sly. In the link below, you can see a photo of Sly in Bulgaria.
More on it here:
http://www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=97365
I think Rambo 5 is Sly’s next movie. That’s what it’s looking like anyways as the news of Rambo 5 keeps coming. Look like Sly already finished the script for Rambo 5 if he’s already out there looking for filming locations.
No actual confirmation from Sly himself if he’s doing Rambo next but I’m sure he will speak out on something soon.
Kev
He’s there right now over at the Zurich Festival in Switzerland!!! Enjoy!
And congrats Sly! That award is so huge! The man deserves it!
Sly is looking so happy in these pics, it’s amazing. More pics to come as I find ’em!
Kev
Sylvester Stallone will be honored at the Zurich Film Festival to receive his huge Golden Icon Award for the lifetime achievement. The Zurich Festival is a film festival that is over in Switzerland. Sly will be travelling there this week to receive his award and to debut “Rambo – The Director’s Cut” at the festival as well. The festival runs Sept 25th through Oct 5th.
More here at his official website:
http://www.sylvesterstallone.com/
When photos of Sly attending the festival this week start going up online, I’ll post them in the blog.
Congrats to Sly!
Kev
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