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Sly and the Family Stallone News for the Week:
Today we have a video of Thomas Boatwright creating a watercolor Stallone as Cobra sketch for me. I was surprised at how much Boatwright knew about Sly and Cobra. As always, I love the Boatwright’s art. You can see more of it here.
Sly and the Family Stallone News for the Week:
Sly and the Family Stallone News for the Week:
Sly Stallone was a guests a the Cannes Film Festival where he talked about Rambo: Last Blood and two potential projects:
Rambo: Last Blood – “We pick it up, he’s out in this storm, a horrible storm. He’s trying to rescue people… He’s still dealing with survivor guilt, b/c he couldn’t save his friends in Vietnam. A result of PTSD. He has a hard time. He has a beautiful ranch, but he lives underground… He has an adopted family there. His father has passed on. The housekeeper who is 70 has a granddaughter. He’s her surrogate father… Bad things happen…There’s going to be some serious vengeance in this movie. A lot of people getting hurt.”
Cobra – “That (conceit) was what if Bruce Springsteen had a gun? That was rock n’ roll meets drama. That should have been another franchise because that character was so cool. And I blew it. My personal life got in the way. But we’re trying to bring it back as a streaming TV series. Bring out the zombie squad. I’m long gone, but the idea is really good…”
Rocky (Not Creed III): “I have a great idea for Rocky. He finds this fella in the country illegally and it becomes a whole thing…”
Sly talks about more in the article but there were two quotes I want to share:
“Failures just make you smarter. Sometimes success makes you dumber.”
“Never stop punching. That’s how I roll. You always have something to prove.”
The one project I wish we’d hear more about is Hunter based on James Byron Huggins best-selling novel written for Sly!
Source: Deadline.
Here’s Sly as Marion Cobretti aka Cobra. This piece was created by the man, the myth, the legend, John Beatty. You can watch a video of John creating the piece below.
If you like what you see, check out more of John’s (almost) daily live drawing. John is also available for commissions!
I imagine that many of our regular readers will get a kick out of Evan Hopkins’ The 20 Deadliest ’80s Action Movie Characters Ranked. Evans’ list is a good one.
Some actors had multiple characters who made the list. Chuck Norris had 4, Arnold Schwarzenegger had 3, Sly and Mel Gibson had two characters.
Sly Stallone’s Rambo came in first place and Cobra showed up at #11 and you know I won’t argue that. 🙂
Our POW [Picture of the Week] is a shot of Sly from Cobra. Click on the image to see a larger view. – Craig
Sly and the Family Stallone News for the Week…
This is the first Cobra piece I ever received from Thomas Boatwright . He did it for me several years ago, but somehow I missed scanning and getting it posted.
Over the years I’ve gotten several Stallone pieces from Thomas. Click on the link to see what has been posted so far… there are more to come.
If you’d like to see more of Thomas Boatwright’s art check out his blog and his DA site. Send him some love.
If you get commissions, you should consider a piece from Thomas. He keeps you totally in the loop on his progress, finishes his commissions on or ahead of schedule, has very reasonable prices, is a fantastic artist and always gives you more than you’re expecting! – Craig