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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.
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.
Jon Riggle is back, this time with his take on Sly from The Expendables. Jon is an illustrator and photographer. He also created the Sci-Fi comic strip Sonic Jack and is available for commissions. You can see more of Jon’s art here and here.
Thanks to Jon and John Beatty for the gift.
Steve ‘Frosty’ Weintraub posted a larger image at Collider.com of this Expendables standee that he photographed at ShoWest.
Again I say, ‘Nuff said.
‘Nuff said.
On March 8, 2010, the Columbus Local News posted a piece with photos [which fans can purchase] of the Arnold Sports Festival. One of the pictures was the one above of Sly handing out awards to winners of the Women’s Arm Wrestling Tournament. [SNP photo by Maddie McGarvey]
SZoner, ABKing, found the above Denmark poster for The Expendables and was kind enough to post it for all to see.
If you can’t wait for The Expendables to premiere in theaters later this year, then perhaps an Expendables comic prequel will help hold you over. CBR.com has an interview with Chuck Dixon, the writer of the project. Here’s a bit of what Dixon had to say:
“This is a movie that Sylvester Stallone has been trying to get together for years; an action movie packed with as many well-known action stars as possible…
“Sly’s not re-inventing the wheel here. He’s just built a really bad-ass, killer wheel of awesomeness…
“My job is to tell a story that takes place before the events of the movie without revealing anything that’s to come in the movie’s story…
To read the full interview as well as see some preliminary art for the comic, simply click here.
It couldn’t be more appropriate [since there were several pieces about Rocky and the Oscars in this week’s update] that we have Rocky by Dave Wachter for this week’s Stallone art. Dave’s work has appeared on the SZ before with his riff on Sly from Paradise Alley.
After the recent earthquake in Haiti, Dave offered everyone who made a donation to Doctors Without Borders to aide earthquake victims in Haiti a free sketch. The piece about is what I got for my donation. You can see what others selected, and more of Dave’s art by heading over to his website.
Thanks to Dave for my great sketch as well as his efforts to help the people in Haiti.
SZoner, Bill Pruitt checked in with scans of Sly’s interview from the April 2010 issue of Empire magazine.
Hi Craig,I posted the scanned article on the forum because I bought it and I know people were antsy to read it. In case you wanted to still add it for a weekly update…Bill