Category: Celebs

Vinne Jones has “Extraordinary” Fight Scene with Sly

Craig / / 2013, Celebs, Tomb

On March 1, 2013, Vinnie Jones was profiled in Metro in a piece called, I‘d Rather Chat about Golf with Sylvester Stallone than Fight.  He spoke a bit about working with Sly on The Tomb and his hope to be a part of Expendables III.   Here’s a taste…

<Jones> can be seen starring alongside action movie legends Sylvester Stallone and Arnold Schwarzenegger in jail drama The Tomb, due out in September. Jones plays a corrupt prison warden.

‘Sly and I had a major fight scene which took about three days to shoot,’ says Jones. ‘I suppose it’ll last about three minutes in the film but it was extraordinary. We had more stamina for talking about golf than fighting – Sly had brought his driver with him on set to show me his back swing.’

Jones says he’s also in talks for a part in The Expendables 3 after approaching Stallone on set. Sly’s action movie series already stars Jones’s Lock, Stock… co-star Jason Statham.

‘It’s all got to be written yet so nobody knows how big the roles are,’ says Jones. ‘But yeah, it’s been spoken about with him and Kevin King, Sly’s producing partner, so that’s an exciting prospect.’


Mirror Posts Location Photos of Sly & Deniro

Craig / / 2013, Celebs, Grudge Match

On February 24, 2013, the Mirror posted a slightly bigger version of the photo above of Sly heading to the set of Grudge Match. They also have a similar shot of Robert Deniro.

Here are some tidbits from the piece:

The comedy sees the stars play rival fighters persuaded to come out of retirement for one final bout… 50 years after their last match.

A Hollywood insider said: “This has all the makings of a classic. Not only have you got two of the biggest names in Hollywood, but you’ve got the lead roles in the two most famous boxing films of all time.

“Getting Jake Lamotta and Rocky Balboa to square up after all these years is absolute genius, and I’m sure a lot of people are very excited about the prospect of watching them slugging it out.”

1st Shots of Sly & DeNiro on Set for Grudge Match

Craig / / 2013, Celebs, Grudge Match

Here’s our first look at Sly and Robert Deniro on the set of their forthcoming film, Grudge Match.  It’s going to be interesting to see Rocky vs the Raging Bull.

On a side note, did you notice that Sly’s tats are covered for this role.

Grudge Match opens November 15, 2013.

Are Stallone And Schwarzenegger’s Careers Over?

Craig / / 2013, Bullet to the Head, Celebs

On February 4, 2013, Sean O’Connell at Cinema Blend asked (and answered), Are Sylvester Stallone And Arnold Schwarzenegger’s Careers Over?

No doubt that this article was brought on by the much lower than expected box office of Arnold’s The Last Stand and Sly’s Bullet to the Head.  Here are a few tidbits from O’Connell’s piece…

Stallone’s Expendables franchise, for starters, proves that ticket buyers will show up to see these action icons kicking ass on screen.

… you can also point to Liam Neeson’s Taken franchise as a lucrative property built on the shoulders of an older action hero. The 60-year-old Irishman’s only a few years behind Schwarzenegger (65) and Stallone (66), yet he doesn’t lean on his seniority as a punchline, and audiences have very little trouble accepting him as a lethal weapon.

I’d say that both men have some life in their action-hero legs, and these two abysmal openings just coincidentally occurred within weeks of each other.

 

The Sly Wisdom of Action Hero Sylvester Stallone

Craig / / 2013, Celebs

On January 31, 2013, The Independent posted a short interview with Sly that they call The Sly Wisdom of Action Hero Sylvester Stallone.  If you’re a Stallone fan, you should check it out.  Here’s a small taste…

You’re sporting some impressive tattoos in your new film Bullet To The Head. Are they real?  They’re real – unfortunately. I have all kinds of chest injuries; I tore my vein duringRocky II and had 60 stitches. If you’ve seen Rocky Balboa, you’ll know how bad they look. It got worse and worse, and people were saying, “Urgh, has he got varicose veins?” So I thought, f*ck it, and covered them with a tattoo of my wife. Then the tattoo started to grow and it went to a skull and before I knew it, I was a mural.

The film is based on a graphic novel – were you a fan?  Yeah, but in the novel my character was a little more sadistic and crazy, with no redeeming qualities. So I changed that and I cut the goatee off because he looked exactly like Barney from The Expendables.

Do you think your acting skills are underappreciated?  I didn’t work my way through certain acting establishments or Bafta or, what do you call it? Royal… [puts on hoity-toity English voice] Rada! It’s been a real grind. I never really learned how to act; it was on-the-job training.

Given that your films have taken $1.6bn at the box office, does it annoy you that you don’t get the respect you deserve from Hollywood?  It did, it did. But there’s a different kind of recognition now – from the people. There’s an eclectic, sophisticated sort of recognition. I used the challenge of Cop Land to prove a point. Now I go, “OK, I can do those kind of movies. Now let’s see you guys do an action film.”

Have you ever fallen out with any of your fellow Eighties action heroes?  Steven Seagal said that he “didn’t associate with that kind of element” – meaning me. So I slammed him up against a wall… At that time, our testosterone was running full bore. He was full of his height [Seagal is 6ft 3in, Stallone is 5ft 10in] and I was full of… um… myself. But we made up. He can be very abstract.

 

Director Walter Hill Not Sly About Working with Stallone

Craig / / 2013, Celebs

On January 29, 2013, AM New York posted a short interview with Walter Hill.  Here’s some of what he had to say about Sly…

Sly and I, we have known each other a long time. I met Sly the first time before “Hard Times” came out [in 1975] and before he had done “Rocky.” He and I had and still have the same lawyer. We were introduced way back then. I’d sent him scripts a couple times to try and tease him out and get him to do something. He’d done the same with me, and it just never quite [worked out] – whether it was time and circumstance, or whatever. But I’ve always admired him.

I came out of the experience of those films really on a positive basis with all these guys. At least when I run into them, they’re very nice to me, so it seems OK. The first premise is they have a great gusto for the genre … Bruce and Sly are much more alike than Arnold is. Arnold’s hard to define. I always thought whatever you said about him, there were always these other things that were true … Bruce and Sly are both trained actors. They’ve gone through the process, they learned, they studied, they went out, they tried, they were rejected, they failed, they succeeded marginally and then they succeeded and then they became gigantic successes. Whereas Arnold was a world figure before he ever did a movie.