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On July 5, 2014, The Celebrity Cafe, posted their choices for The Top Ten Sylvester Stallone Movies. Click over for full details, but for the record their choices were…
On July 2, 2014, Richard Johnson at the New York Post’s Page Six posted Stallone’s New Tough Guy-Role? Here’s a taste… check out the article for full details!
Sly would play Greg Scarpa, a hitman known as “the Grim Reaper.”
The screenplay by Nick Pileggi, who wrote “Goodfellas” and “Casino,” will gloss over Scarpa’s involvement in 20 murders, and focus on his career as a T.E., a top echelon informant for the FBI, who secretly solved the “Mississippi Burning” case…
Pileggi told me, “It’s a fabulous story. Stallone is interested. He likes the script.” Irwin Winkler, of “Rocky” fame, would produce with Avi Lerner, who produced “The Expendables” and its sequels.
On July 2, 2014, Den of Geek posted 6 Startling Moments of Quiet in Summer Blockbusters. Sly and Cop Land made the cut and here’s what they had to say…4. Cop Land (1997): Shootout at the not OK Corral
Okay, this is pushing the definition of summer blockbuster a bit, but Cop Land stars a Hollywood A-lister and was released in August, so it counts.
As soft-spoken Freddy Heflin, Sylvester Stallone hesitates and mumbles his way through the whole film. For once this is intentional, as Freddy is a small town sheriff so in awe of the big city cops who live within his jurisdiction that he can’t bring himself to confront them when presented with evidence of their corruption. Freddy finds himself caught between internal affairs cop Moe Tilden (Robert DeNiro) and the de-facto leader of the corrupt cops, Ray Donlan (Harvey Keitel), and spends a great deal of time being yelled at by both of these acting heavyweights.
When the worm turns, and Freddie finally decides to take action, the film heads towards an inevitable, bloody confrontation. But the shootout that follows has a unique twist: Freddy is deaf in one ear and, whilst abducting the witness Freddy needs to take down the bad guys, Jack Rucker (Robert Patrick) has just fired his gun right next to Freddy’s good ear.
What follows can be described, rather tastelessly, as High Noon in deaf-o vision. We get to experience the resulting gun battle as if we are Freddy, every muffled shot, every shattering pane of glass, barely audible over the screeching of the tinnitus that now passes for his sense of hearing.
It’s a sequence that is at once immersive, alienating and uniquely thrilling.
On July 1, 2014, Autoevolution posted a piece (along with a dozen photos) titled Sylvester Stallone Drives a Mercedes E63 AMG.
Expendables 3 News for the Week…
Kevin Mellon created this cool piece. Sly as Jack Carter. Kevin said he gave Carter the shotgun as a nod to the original “Get Carter” starring Michael Caine.
Well played, Kevin. Well played.
If you’d like to see more of Kevin’s art you can here.
Here we have a new movie poster for Expendables 3…
Sports Illustrated recently posted Dan Treadway’s choices for The 12 Greatest Sports Movie Songs of All-Time. Sly had two songs make the cut and here is what Mr. Treadway had to say about them…
Rocky: Gonna Fly Now
The most difficult part of making a list like this was determining how many songs from the Rocky franchise to include. Montages are a fairly critical aspect of more or less every sports film, and Sly Stallone’s movies more or less wrote the book on them. So I would be remiss if I did not at least include the most montagiest of montage songs “Gonna Fly Now.” I honestly can’t listen to any part of this song without imagining Rocky jogging around war-torn ’70s Philly in sweats and a beanie. This song was nominated for an Academy Award in 1977 and — despite Rocky getting the nod for Best Picture and Best Director — it somehow didn’t win. Instead the honors went to the theme from A Star is Born, which I’m pretty sure is the song that’s been playing at my dentist’s office for the past 24 years:
Rocky III: Eye of the Tiger
Believe it or not, we were extremely close to living in an “Eye of the Tiger”-less world. The horror.
Jim Peterick, the guitarist for Survivor, told the story of the song’s origin during an interview with Guitar World:
I came home from shopping one day and heard a message on the answering machine from Sylvester Stallone. At first, I thought it was a joke, but I called the number and sure enough, Stallone answered. He told me that he loved the band and had heard “Poor Man’s Son” and “Take You On A Saturday” from our Premonition album and wanted that same kind of “street” sound for his new movie,Rocky III. He sent us a video montage of the movie and Frankie (Sullivan) and I watched it together. There were scenes of Rocky getting a little “soft” (doing the Visa card commercials) and Mr. T “rising up” with his Mohawk. It was electric. The temp music they used to accompany the montage was “Another One Bites The Dust” by Queen. I remember asking Stallone why he just didn’t use that song for the movie and he said it was because they couldn’t get the publishing rights for it. At that point I just said, “Thank you, Queen!”
We’ve now reached the point where I don’t even know what I think about “Eye of the Tiger.” It’s been used so many times, in so many capacities, that it’s much more than just the lead song from a movie soundtrack — it’s pretty much its own emotion. It’s the musical version of chugging Red Bull while sprinting after a gazelle that you plan on killing with your bare hands.
