On January 27, 2013, The Miami Herald posted Sylvester Stallone Lures Director Walter Hill Back to Work for Bullet to the Head. Here are a few tidbits…
“I read the script and said ‘I’m in, as long as you perceive the movie to be an homage to action films of the ’70s and ’80s, and we make it in that spirit — where the engine of the film is certainly not the story, which is preposterous, but the ethical stances of the two lead characters and their opposite world views.”
“Stallone’s [hit man] is not a character to be imitated or admired,” Hill says. “But he is a character who is brutally honest about the world he lives in.
“The endings of this kind of movie are, in a sense, a given,” Hill says. “The fun is getting there. I think of the good guys and bad guys almost doing a little dance. These movies are all musicals, in a way. And also westerns, of course, because the characters are forced to use violence when civility and traditional society don’t work.”