This week we have Sly from Oscar by Thom Zahler. I was introduced to Thom at HeroesCon 2011 and to his art through his Love an Capes website. In addition to being an artist and writer, Thom is a great entertainer. He’s funny and does a better Shatner than the guy on the Priceline commercials.
Day: February 20, 2012
LotofSly Autograph: Renny Harlin
That’s an autographed photo of Renny Harlin who directed Sly in Cliffhanger.
My pal, Alex surprised me with a package containing it and several other Stallone-related autographs that I’m going to post on the SZ over the coming weeks. Alex, as you’ve probably guessed is also known as LotofSly on the SZ message boards where he also serves as one of our moderators [and now has his own section Me &…]. Alex has met more celebrities than anyone else I know, and he somehow always manages to get photos with them. That’s in addition to being an all-around nice guy… and as nice as Alex is THAT has to be a full time job!
Sly vs Bruce
On February 17, 2012, Mike Walker at The National Enquirer posted a piece titled, Bruce & Sly Stage a Senior Slam-Down. According to the piece, Bruce and Sly were out to dinner and decided to stage an impromptu arm-wrestling match to decide who was in better shape… or maybe it was to see who picked up the tab?
Lock Up vs Escape from Alcatraz
MovieHole recently decided to put Lock Up head-to-head against Escape from Alcatraz. I’m a huge Clint Eastwood fan, but I prefer Lock Up. Of course, this is the StalloneZone, not the EastwoodZone. – Craig
Sly’s Unmade Epic
Remember when Sly was interested in getting a film adaptation of Franz Werfel’s The Forty Days of Musa Dagh going? Well, Yigal Schleifer at The Atlantic does and quotes Sly in his piece Armenia’s Doomed Quest to Recruit Steven Spielberg
- For years Stallone’s wanted to create an epic, and the book that intrigues him is Franz Werfel’s “The Forty Days of Musa Dagh,” detailing the Turkish genocide of its Armenian community in 1915. (After futile attempts to turn the novel into a movie, filmmakers finally succeeded in 1982, but it was a low-profile production.)
- French ships eventually rescued some Armenians, and Stallone has his favorite scene memorized: “The French ships come, and they’ve dropped the ladders and everybody has climbed up the side. The ships sail. The hero, the one who set up the rescue, has fallen asleep, exhausted, behind a rock on the slope above. The camera pulls back, and the ships and the sea are on one side, and there’s one lonely figure at the top of the mountain, and the Turks are coming up the mountain by the thousands on the far side.
- “A pretty great shot.”
- The movie would be “an epic about the complete destruction of a civilization,” Stallone said. Then he laughed at the ambition. “Talk about a political hot potato. The Turks have been killing that subject for 85 years.”
How About an Expendables 2 Game?
According to this report at NowGamer, Ubisoft is planning to do an Expendables 2 game. Although this is still a rumor, evidence is pretty strong that the game is at the very least, in development.
Frank: The Other Stallone
On February 15, 2012, The Winnipeg Free Press ran a piece titled, “The Other Stallone” which was of course, about Frank. If you read the article, you’ll discover that Frank is booked to play the Pyramid Cabaret on Friday, March 2nd and a bit more.