77-year-old Sylvester Stallone is still hustling and has no plans to hang up his gloves! The unforgettable interpreter of Rock and Rambo is overloaded with projects. To see more clearly, let’s break down the score!
Armored and dangerous!
Stallone has already released two action movies that should hit our screens soon. The first one is called Armored, signed by Justin Root.
The story introduces us to a father and son who work as security guards for an armored car company. They meet a band of thieves on a bridge and find themselves trapped. The release date has not been announced yet.
Allerum, see you both!
Another film already shot for the actor, Alarum, directed by Michael Polon. The work was written by Alexander Vesha (Deadly Impact) and has no release date yet. The story tells about two professional killers, Joe and Lara Travers (Scott Eastwood and Willa Fitzgerald). After abandoning a life of crime for their love, they witness a plane crash.
The pair retrieves a secret USB key from the wreckage, the contents of which will implicate all the world’s intelligence agencies, including Chester (Sylvester Stallone). The latter is a ruthless CIA agent sent to kill them.
The duo quickly abandon their idyllic lifestyle and call on their remarkable skills learned in the shadows to survive the impending attack. Mike Colter, Isis Valverde and DW Moffett round out the cast of this Mr. and Mrs. Smith-style action flick that’s sure to be explosive.
You’re never too old to die
In the future, Stallone will again collaborate with the Amazon Prime platform, with which he filmed the TV series Tulsa King and The Samaritan. He will star in Never Too Old to Die, an action comedy in which he plays an ex-spy.
When one of his friends is murdered in a nursing home, this Cold War veteran will do anything to find the killer among his people.
Hang in there baby!
After Rocky Balboa, John Rambo and Barney Ross in Expendables 4, Sylvester Stallone is preparing to bring another of his iconic characters back to the movies: mountaineer Gabby Walker, hero of Cliffhanger. Renny Harlin’s film celebrated its 30th anniversary in 2023.
With $255 million worldwide (on a $75 million budget), Renny Harlin’s film is a huge success. In France, it attracts 2.6 million viewers. At the time, a sequel was under consideration with TriStar Pictures in the lead. Unfortunately, the project was abandoned.
After a few years of delay, Cliffhanger 2 is officially back on track starting in late 2023! After being handed over to Rick Roman Waugh, the sequel will finally be directed by Frenchman Jean-Francois Richet. A specialist in action, we owe him the Mesrin Diptych and The Last Maid with Gerard Butler.
After the events of the first part, experienced mountaineer Gabe Walker became responsible for the mountain house. The latter enjoys a well-deserved pension in the Italian massif. His peace will be interrupted by hostages who will kidnap him and his clients. Gabby’s daughter will help her father by using her climbing skills. The film is expected to be shot at the end of this year.
In the country of rock
Sylvester Stallone will return to the country of rock! As Deadline reported last March, the actor will be heading to Philadelphia to shoot his new film The Epiphany. If Rock and this new project are located in the same city, the comparison ends there. The two films have very different plots.
Stallone will play a tough, soon-to-be-retired police detective; He must team up with a young cop and a former priest to stop a serial killer from Philadelphia. The film is directed by William Eubank (Paranormal Activity Next of Kin). Filming is set to begin this summer in Philadelphia.
Make America Sly Again
The artist also has another film project under fire, signed Rowan Athale: Little America, currently in pre-production. The story takes us to a future where a president like Donald Trump bankrupts the United States.
China is paying off the country’s debt, many Americans are moving to Asia to find work. In this new world, a former member of the military is hired by a Chinese billionaire to infiltrate an American ghetto and rescue his daughter.
Good and bad hunter
The actor has also been attached to the Hunter project since 2012, which he wants to direct and star in. Stallone must dress up as Nathaniel Hunter, a super hunter hired by a mercenary army to find a genetically modified creature in the Arctic Circle.
If the hunter’s instincts tell him to give up on the mission, he has no choice but to accept when the beast turns up a few kilometers from the city. Sly acquired James Byron Huggins’ sci-fi novel The Huntsman many years ago.
In 2009, Sylvester Stallone planned to adapt a sequel to James Byron Huggins’ novel John Rambo, but the project was abandoned and the filmmaker began filming The Expendables.
Sly in horror mode
The actor is also associated with the Scavenger Hunt project directed by Al Callahan. The story follows a group of students who decide to perform an ancient ritual. Obviously, things are going wrong.
good samaritan
Finally, the latest project in Sly’s portfolio: Samaritan 2. This is a sequel to the action film The Samaritan, which was released on Prime Video in August 2022. Stallone played an elderly superhero controlling a teenager.
Meanwhile, the actor is currently filming the second season of the mafia series Tulsa King, which will soon be released on the Paramount+ platform. Will he reprise his role as The Rock in Michael B. Jordan’s Creed IV? Nothing is known about it at the moment. After his absence in Opus 3, we hope the character will make an appearance in this sequel for a final farewell.
Another important unknown: who will now be Sylvester Stallone’s VF, who will become the legendary Allen Dorval, who died last February. Could Richard Darbois, who also voiced Stallone?
Source: Allocine
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