Stallone on Death Wish remake
With The Expendables soon storming the screens and Rambo 5 tooling
up, you'd think Sylvester Stallone might want to take a breather from
the massive explosions and give peace a bit of a chance. Well, you'd be
half right. The Italian Stallone has a few things on his mind and one of
them is a remake of '70s exploitationer Death Wish.
"I'm thinking about it," Stallone said.
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"It's a classic morality tale, where you take a civilised man and
take away everything that matters to him so he becomes primitive again."
Eagle-eyed readers will have spotted some thematic similarities
between John Rambo and the gnarly vigilante played by Charles Bronson,
but the idea of Rambo-Takes-Broadway is still very much at the
chewing-over stage.
"The story's been done many times, and when it's done well, it's an
emotionally engaging film. The trouble with remakes is that people fall
in love with the original. It's like peanut butter. If you try to change
the taste of peanut butter, you're in trouble."
It's not all angst-ridden mayhem in the Stallone diary, though.
Tearing around the Latin jungle with Dolph Lundgren and the Stath
would get anyone's creative juices flowing, but it's still a bit of a
surprise to hear his passion for a biopic of writer Edgar Allan Poe,
high priest of the American Gothic.
"I keep telling my producer Avi Lerner, Make Edgar Allan Poe! He
says, 'Does he have a gun?' 'No, he doesn't have a gun', 'Can he throw a
knife?' I say, 'No, he writes poetry!'
Sadly the awesome sight of Stallone, quill pen in hand, bashing out
'The Pit And The Pendulum' will be denied us.
"Of course, I'm not playing Poe. 'Yo, Poe!' It won't work! It'll be
some young actor because he dies at 39, but it's gonna happen." Another
project likely to go Stallone-less is a mooted Cliffhanger sequel.
"I hear they're gonna remake it," Sly said. "You know you've been
around when they start to remake your own movies when you're still
alive."
Mind you, judging by this small army of very corrupt and very dead
Latin-types, we can't imagine the odd cliff would present too much of a
problem.
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