Category: 2010

Sly Buys Painting

Craig / / 2010, Sly's Art

On March 20, 2010, The Lancaster Eagle Gazette posted an article called Artist’s Abstract Catches Eye of Action Star Stallone.  Sly was a judge in an art contest at the Arnold Sports Festival and a piece by Robert Wright really caught his eye.  Later Wright learned that he had won the “Sylvester Stallone Choice Award” and would be a personal guest of Sly’s at a VIP luncheon.  Things even got better when Wright learned that Sly wanted to buy the painting!

Here are a few of Wright’s comments about meeting Sly:

“I was surprised. I thought he would be this ego-driven monster, but that wasn’t the case at all,” Wright said. “He was very humble and seemed to be embarrassed by all the publicity.”

“He asked how much the painting was and I told him and he was shocked and said, ‘That’s all?… I thought, you know, I could charge him $8,000 instead [of $800], but I’m not going to cheat someone just because they’re a celebrity.”

That’s a photo of the painting Sly bought below and you can read the full article by clicking here.

Sly: Expendables Close-Up

Craig / / 2010, Expendables

On March 18, 2010, ComingSoon.net posted up a larger version of the photo above [and the Stallone Expendables standee] along with their detailed review of The Expendables trailer shown at ShoWest.  You can check out their post here.

And while we [and everyone else] is talking about the new Expendables posters let’s see check in on…

Rocky vs Rambo

Craig / / 2010, Rambo, Rocky

On March 16,2010, The Metro Film Fight Club pitted Rocky against Rambo to determine which “original Stallone classic is better.”  You can click here to read each side’s arguments.  The cool thing is that no matter who wins, Stallone and Stallone fans come out on top.

Sly a Zombie?

Craig / / 2010, Unmade Films

Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick the writers behind the hit Zombieland recently said in an interview at Den of Geek that Sly was one of the actors approached about a cameo as zombie.  Patrick Swayze was the first actor that Reese and Wernick had in mind, but when it became known that Swayze was very ill, they went to plan two…

So, we officially put pen to paper and brainstormed and wrote about 10 to 15 drafts with different celebrity cameos in mind: Sylvester Stallone, Joe Pesci, Jean Claude Van Damme, Matthew McConaughey, Mark Hamill… and for one reason or another they all said no. One being schedule, another bring this idea of actors playing themselves in a movie that was hard to get over the hump on.

Perhaps Sly will make a cameo in Zombieland II which is now in the planning stages.  To read the full interview, click here.