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.

 

Robin Holstein Got Carter

Craig / / 2013, Craig's Sly Art, Get Carter

I met Robin Holstein for the first time at Heroes Con in 2011.   I’d see a bit of Robin’s art online and so I made sure to swing by his table and meet him. After talking to Robin a bit, I decided to commission a Stallone sketch from him.

Robin came up with this sketch. Upon seeing it, I immediately asked if he had room on his list for another piece — my buddy, LittleJohn312 was with me and he also asked to get on Robin’s list. Lucky for us, Robin was able to fit us both in.

This piece you see today is my second piece by Robin. If want to see more of Robin’s art, you can at his site.

Walter Hill on Making Bullet to the Head

Craig / / 2013, Bullet to the Head, Celebs

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.”

Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje on Bullet to the Head

Craig / / 2013, Bullet to the Head, Celebs

On January 26, 2013, ComicBook.com posted an interview with Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje currently who is soon to be seen with Sylvester Stallone in Bullet to the Head. Here are some tidbits from the interview about working with Sly…

I was definitely intrigued by working with both Stallone and Walter Hill–both of whom are legendary. Walter’s vision and take on a modern throwback action-packed movie was something that really intrigued me. These guys are old school but they deliver in a contemporary way and it’s very no-nonsense.

 

It was a really enjoyable process to work alongside Walter Hill and Stallone because they were very keen to develop a multi-layered and textured character.