RAMBO NEW BLOOD
Rambo: New Blood, a television continuation of the Rambo franchise in which Sylvester Stallone has reportedly been attached as an executive producer and may reprise his role as John Rambo
However, the deadline is to report that Stallone and his representatives deny any involvement at all with Rambo: new blood. Without Stallone, the project may not go forward
As originally conceived by screenwriter Jeb Stewart (the fugitive), Rambo: new blood was going to focus on John Rambo's previously undisclosed son, Jr, a former Marine who had a complicated relationship with his father. The producers of Rambo: new blood publicly expressed the hope that Stallone would be repeated in the series as John Rambo
Sylvester Stallone (born July 6, 1946 in the Hell's Kitchen neighborhood of New York City) is an American actor, director, screenwriter and film producer. He is of Italian origin by his father, Ukrainian and French by his mother
After starting his career in cinema with small roles in the early 1970s, he revealed himself to the general public in 1976 in the famous film Rocky, whose narrative tells the story of a boxer from Philadelphia named Rocky Balboa. His performance earned him nominations for the Oscars, the Golden Globes and the BAFTAs for best actor and best original screenplay. This success launched his career and spawned a series of eight films that met with critical and commercial success over a period of more than forty years. In addition to embodying the main role, Sylvester Stallone also ensures the direction and writing. In 2016, he won the Golden Globe for Best supporting actor and received a third Oscar nomination in the same category for Creed. He has had his star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in Los Angeles since 1984
He became involved in dramatic cinema by playing darker characters in films such as FIST (1978), The Tavern of Hell (1978), The Hawks of the Night (1981) and worked for directors such as Norman Jewison and John Huston. In 1982, his incarnation as a soldier traumatized by the Vietnam War in Rambo allowed him to obtain the second most emblematic role of his career. The success of the film leads to the production of a series of four sequels centered on the eponymous character. From the mid-1980s, he turned to big-budget productions: the sequels of Rambo, Tango and Cash, Cliffhanger, Demolition Man. Apart from some dramas such as Copland, the Rocky sequels and several attempts at comedy, action films remain his main genre of interpretation, such as the Expendables film series
Sylvester Gaudenzio Stallone was born on July 6, 1946 in the New York neighborhood of Hell's Kitchen, in the United States. Sylvester Stallone's father, Francesco, known as "Frank", was born in Gioia del Colle, province of Bari, Puglia (Italy) and arrived in the United States when his parents emigrated there in 1932
His mother, Jackie Stallone, born Jacqueline Labofish, of French ancestry by her mother (Jeanne Clérec (born in Brest)), was born in Washington, D.C. in 1921
Following complications that occurred at his birth in 1946, Sylvester Stallone suffers from facial paralysis on the left side (a facial nerve was affected and damaged by the forceps). Her mouth is therefore slightly twisted and her tongue is half paralyzed, causing her to have a pronunciation defect
Stallone is studying drama in Miami. Returning to New York, he appeared in several off-Broadway plays. During a period of unemployment in 1970, he finds himself briefly homeless and shoots an erotic film, The Party at Kitty and Stud's, for which he receives, according to his own testimony, a salary of 200 dollars. This is her first appearance in the cinema. The film is released several years later, after Rocky's triumph and to take advantage of the actor's nascent success, under the title The Italian Stallion — Rocky Balboa's nickname ; the Italian word "stallone" also means "stallion" — accompanied by an advertising campaign that tries to pass it off as a pornographic film. Most of his other roles confine him to brief appearances, such as in Bananas with Woody Allen. He also made a few appearances in television series like Kojak, but did not get a major role during this period. In the mid-1970s, he began to get more important supporting roles, such as in Capone or in the B series The Death Race of the year 2000 where he played the main antagonist
It was during this period that Stallone wrote the script for Rocky, the story of a second-class boxer who is offered the chance of his life the day the world boxing champion offers to face him in the ring. His story is inspired by a boxing fight that he attended as a spectator and which put Mohamed Ali in a fight with a boxer unknown to the public, Chuck Wepner
Convinced of the potential of the role of Rocky Balboa, Stallone refuses to sell his script if he does not get the guarantee to play the title role. The producers are raising the stakes very high to buy this script, but they want a confirmed star on the poster: initially, the role is offered to James Caan, Robert Redford, Burt Reynolds or Ryan O'Neal. The producers were hardly enthusiastic about the idea of entrusting the main role to Stallone, who was then only a secondary actor
It was finally in 1976 that he won his case and Rocky, directed by John G. Avildsen, was released. The shooting was completed in barely a month and with a paltry budget. Like his character, Stallone finds himself propelled to the front of the stage, the film experiencing an unexpected success and winning ten Oscar nominations. Stallone becomes the third personality nominated in the categories best actor and best original screenplay for the same film, after Charlie Chaplin and Orson Welles. In the end, the film wins three Oscars, including that of the best film of the year. The universal story of Rocky Balboa, that of the "little ones" who assert themselves and realize themselves by dint of courage, but also thanks to the nudge of fate - in short, an allegory of the American dream - gives birth to a myth of modern American cinema and also shapes an extraordinary dimension to its interpreter
Stallone will reunite with the character of Rocky Balboa seven times, in 1979, 1982, 1985, 1990, 2006, 2015 and 2018. He wrote all the scripts and directed Rocky 2, Rocky 3, Rocky 4 and the sixth part, entitled Rocky Balboa. The Rocky series presents a parallel between the career of the actor and the boxer: we leave the lost little "tocard" of Philadelphia to evolve into a superstar seized by his image (Rocky 3), or even a spearhead of American patriotism in the midst of the revival of the Cold War (Rocky 4 where he confronts a boxer from the Soviet Union). The successive episodes keep improving the box office scores, going up to the 300 million dollars collected worldwide by the 4th episode, with the exception of the 5th part which meets a mixed reception
In the late 1970s, Stallone tried his hand at directing with another sports drama, The Tavern from Hell. Released in 1978, the film received bad reviews
For the 35th anniversary of the film in November 2020, Stallone announces a new Rocky 4 and unveils new scenes
In 1982, Stallone played in Rambo the other role that would mark his career: that of a homeless Vietnam veteran who is taken care of by a provincial sheriff who does not want to see wandering around "his" city the symbol of an America that has lost. Stallone will reprise the role of John Rambo four more times (1985, 1988, 2008 and 2019). The character of Rambo, whom Stallone considers his "dark side" (Rocky being his "light side"), takes up some elements of Stallone's life such as the Rocky saga
His character of veteran warrior becomes an icon and arouses a real "Rambomania". The character and his exploits are skillfully exploited by the Reagan government, while the Cold War is experiencing its last upheavals. Rambo, especially with the second episode of the trilogy (the first being more ambiguous), restores pride to the Americans who are still healing the painful wounds of the Vietnamese "quagmire": not only Stallone breaks with a very virulent American cinema with regard to the attitude of Uncle Sam's troops during the Vietnam War (Apocalypse Now, Journey to the end of Hell, Platoon, Full Metal Jacket), but the plot of the Rambo 2 film: The Mission — the hero spots and frees American soldiers still held in jails vietnamese — it also conveys the idea that this new American hero is single-handedly avenging a disgraced country and winning a war lost by the bureaucrats
Sylvester Stallone in his character of John Rambo in Rambo III in 1988
This is why Rambo, and at the same time Stallone, become the image of the proud and patriotic America of the 1980s and cause many reactions of rejection or mockery. These reactions are very strong in France, coming in particular from the group of humorists the Nuls and from the show Les Guignols de l'info, in which Stallone's puppet is chosen as an avatar to represent the worst travails of America through the character of Monsieur Sylvestre
In 1983, he also co-produced and co-wrote the musical Staying Alive, following the worldwide success that revealed John Travolta, Saturday Night Fever. The film is a critical flop, but works commercially
Stallone was the superstar of action movies at that time, but the roles of Rocky and Rambo made such an impression on the minds and his career that his other films of the decade met with mixed success: the crime thriller with The Hawks of the Night, the war film with Ours the Victory (1981), the musical comedy with The Winner (Rhinestone, 1984), the police comedy with Tango and Cash (1989), the prison film with High Security (1989), or the horror film police action with Cobra (1986). Despite the variety of these genres, Stallone has often been accused of always making the same type of film, the public and critics tend to associate most of these films with the generic term action movie
In the 1990s, Stallone leaves behind the characters of Rocky and Rambo. He is trying, like his rival and friend Arnold Schwarzenegger, to break into comedy, with the confusion is in the bag and Stop or my mother will shoot! His rating drops and Stallone goes through an initial lean period. It is Schwarzenegger, who becomes the star of the box office, but at this time also emerges a new generation of action heroes (Steven Seagal, Jean-Claude Van Damme, Bruce Willis), actors present on the same type of roles as him
He then decides to return to action cinema, with varying fortunes: he plays in films such as Cliffhanger: Hunt for the Top, Demolition Man and The Expert which are real successes, while Judge Dredd, Assassins or Daylight are new disappointments at the American box office. But his films continue to achieve some success abroad, such as the film Daylight, which grossed more than $126 million
In the last years of this decade, the role that most marked the critics was offered to him by James Mangold in 1997, with Copland. He plays the tired and potbellied Sheriff Freddy Heflin of a small town of policemen held by the mafia. He takes 20 kg for this role and amazes many observers
The actor at the 2009 Venice Film Festival
After the simple success of Copland's esteem, Sylvester Stallone, who has crossed the 50-year mark, is going through, during the first half of the 2000s, a not very fruitful period: Driven and Get Carter, new mainstream action films both released in 2001, are severe commercial failures. D-Tox (2002) is only experiencing a late and limited release in the United States
In 2004, he presented a reality TV show on NBC, The Contender, in which we see the daily life of boxers who fight to become the best of them. In France, the show was broadcast by Canal+ and W9. Stallone obviously has no more plans and has to be content with wink appearances in TV series like Las Vegas or movies such as Taxi 3 and Spy Kids 3. In 2005, he inducted Hulk Hogan into the WWE Hall of Fame
After many years spent trying to convince the producers, Stallone returns to the forefront in 2006, with the sixth part of Rocky. The project seems crazy, because, for many, Stallone is too old to embody the role of the boxer and the actor does not escape the taunts. Nevertheless, he clings to his project, understanding that the character sticks to him and that the public appreciates seeing him in this role
Rocky Balboa, focused on nostalgia and the return to the values of the very first episode, finally allows Stallone to return to critical success and the first places at the box office. After Rocky's well-received return, Stallone attempts the resurrection of the other role in his life, John Rambo. This is the fourth film in this saga and he christens it – like his last Rocky – simply by the name of the character: John Rambo. The film presents a plot close to that of Rambo 2, but also returns to the source of the character discovered in the first installment. Denouncing the genocide of the Karen people by the Burmese junta and revealing John Rambo's reflection on his past as a warrior, the film shows a totally assumed violence
He continues to offer himself successes as a director / producer with the project Expendables: Special Unit. It tells the story of a band of mercenaries sent to an island in South America to dislodge a dictator, played by David Zayas. The shooting of this action movie bringing together all the stars of Hollywood action cinema starts in April 2009 in Brazil. Stallone plays the main role, with Jason Statham, Jet Li, Charisma Carpenter, Terry Crews, Dolph Lundgren who makes his comeback with Stallone after having been noticed in Rocky IV, Randy Couture (MMA Champion), Stone Cold Steve Austin, Eric Roberts, Mickey Rourke and a short appearance by Arnold Schwarzenegger and Bruce Willis. The film, released on August 13, 2010 in the United States and August 18 in France, is a huge international success at the box office, despite the critics, and relaunches Sylvester Stallone in action cinema at the age of 64
The actor at the Parisian premiere of Expendables 2: Special Unit, in August 2012
In 2012, he reprised his role in Expendables 2: Special Unit but the direction was entrusted to Simon West. The film shot largely in Bulgaria welcomes some new actors such as Chuck Norris, Scott Adkins and especially Jean-Claude Van Damme, who plays the main antagonist. For this sequel, the characters of Arnold Schwarzenegger and Bruce Willis take on more importance. The film is released on August 22, 2012 in France. The third installment of Expendables 3, with new actors Harrison Ford, Antonio Banderas, Wesley Snipes or Mel Gibson but this time without Bruce Willis, concludes the trilogy in August 2014
At the same time, Stallone takes the lead roles in various projects, located in a muscular register, with more diverse fortunes as in 2012 in the action thriller Lead in the Head. In this adaptation of the comic book of the same name by Alexis "Matz" Nolent and Colin Wilson, he plays a hitman forced to team up with a cop played by Sung Kang to find the killer of their respective teammates
The following year is placed under the seal of encounters with sacred monsters: he first shares the poster of the action thriller Escape with Arnold Schwarzenegger, also in full return. The film tells the story of a designer of very high security prisons who will himself be kidnapped and imprisoned. Then the sports comedy Return Match allows him to find another Hollywood veteran, Robert De Niro, whom he had already met in Copland and who, like Stallone, once had a role as a boxer in the cinema, that of Jake LaMotta in Martin Scorsese's Raging Bull movie released in 1980
Alongside Tessa Thompson and Michael B. Jordan for the promotion of Creed, in 2015
In 2014, he surprised by appearing in the choral cast of the independent comedy-drama Bad Luck, written and directed by John Herzfeld. He then leads the Creed project, a Rocky derivative, centered on the son of Apollo Creed, played by the young Michael B. Jordan. Written and directed by Ryan Coogler, the film allows Stallone to play a retired Rocky Balboa, now in a mentor role. His performance earned him the Golden Globe for Best supporting actor and an Oscar nomination for best supporting actor. He had already been nominated for the same role in 1977 at the Golden Globes and the Oscars
In 2017, he plays his own role in the third episode of the second season of the series This Is Us
In 2018, he is starring in two sequels: first Escape 2: The Labyrinth of Hades, where Schwarzenegger is replaced by Dave Bautista – a critical and commercial flop in theaters, which does not prevent the start of a third opus, directed by his Cobra partner, John Herzfeld. Finally, it's one last time Rocky Balboa for Creed 2. For these goodbyes to the role that made him famous, held for eight feature films, Stallone finds Ivan Drago, played by Dolph Lundgren in Rocky 4 who, like Rocky, hung up the gloves to become a coach. First announced as a director, Stallone finally gives up his place to the young filmmaker Steven Caple Jr. In November 2018, he announced that he would no longer take over the character afterwards, stating on Instagram: I thought I was done in 2006, and it suited me very well. But suddenly this young man introduced himself to me and the whole story changed I just want to thank everyone for accepting the Rocky family into their lives for more than 40 years Even if it breaks my heart, unfortunately, everything comes to an end The most wonderful thing is that Rocky will never die because he lives in you
In 2019, he said goodbye on the big screen to his other recurring character, John Rambo, in Rambo: Last Blood. The film, directed by Adrian Grunberg, was co-written and scripted by Sylvester Stallone. The film receives mainly negative reviews, the press deploring the inconsistencies of the character compared to the previous parts, as well as a number of stereotypes considered xenophobic
The author of the original Rambo novel, David Morrell, totally dissociates himself from the film and describes it as "a mess" and adding that he finds it "embarrassing to have name associated with it". He later added in an interview for Newsweek: Instead of being eloquent, this new film lacks a soul. I feel like a minus-than-nothing after seeing it. It is typical of ultra-violent grindhouse-type films of the 70s. The sets seem to be cheap. The realization is annoying
Sylvester Stallone nevertheless finds the character the year after, lending him his voice in a downloadable content of the fighting game Mortal Kombat
In 2022, he puts himself in the shoes of a superhero in the film Samaritan available on the video on demand service Prime Video. Since November 2022, Stallone has been starring in Taylor Sheridan's television series Tulsa King, which sees him in the shoes of a mafia lieutenant. The series that also has Terence Winter as series director
Rambo has survived since the Vietnam War by killing off attempts to classify him
Sylvester Stallone says that his former Special Forces killer is "not a monster at heart" and is a person with whom the public sympathizes
Of all the enemies that Rambo has faced over almost 50 years of rampage through pop culture, it is these critics who dismiss him as a two-dimensional action hero who are his real enemies
Then again, misunderstanding was the whole key to Rambo's survival all this time
With the release of "Rambo: The Last Blood", Sylvester Stallone returns to play a haunted veteran who does not seem to avoid murder no matter how hard he tries to be left alone, this time fighting a violent Mexican cartel that kidnapped his beloved niece. Whether it's sex traffickers or Soviet soldiers or intolerant small-town cops, Rambo remains a sympathetic underdog to many moviegoers no matter how many bodies are left in his wake
"I think (it resonates) because Rambo is not this 'beast at heart', he's actually a careless human being, "Stallone told NBC News by email before the release of the fifth installment of the franchise
"(He is) someone who has been left behind; he has done a job he was asked to do and now he is being held at arm's length away from being embraced by the country he loves so muchSo he feels very rejected - which I think a lot of people (also feel)
The new film is the latest launch in an ongoing campaign that began with the 1972 novel, "First Blood", and continued with the film adaptation 10 years later — the first film in the franchise has earned 728 million dollars globally at the box office to date
But even the biggest fans of Rambo cannot agree on why he lasted so long. It has been seen as a liberal rebuke against a conservative society and a Reagan-era hero against communism; a damaging stereotype for some veterans and a healing symbol of how the country treats its soldiers unfairly for others
"I am almost a political atheist. "I'm not a political animal and I never wanted to be,"Stallone told an audience at the Cannes Film Festival in May. I just thought, this is an interesting story about alienation
Rambo: the best moments of the last Blood star Sylvester Stallone today
Despite the image as an American champion of red meat and potatoes since the release of the 1985 sequel, "Rambo: First Blood Part II", Rambo proved to be more similar to tofu-gaining flavor for the personal tastes of the Observer
"It has always been a test of people's personal policies,said author David Morrell. People see what they want to see
Morel should know: he dreamed about the character. As a Canadian graduate student working on a PhD in literature at Penn State in his late 60's, he witnessed the generational schism that rocked his adopted country during the Vietnam War. The assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert F. Kennedy; the Tate attack; chaos at the Democratic convention in Chicago: everything felt to him as if the front lines had moved to this side of the Pacific Ocean
So he came up with an allegory of pitting a combat recipient medallion from Vietnam and struggling with PTSD against a small-town Southern Police Captain, himself a prominent Korean War veteran, who mistakes him for a tramp. A simple misunderstanding leads to a confrontation that leaves dozens dead and both doomed
The result was a literary sensation:" first blood " has never been out of print for 47 years, it has been translated into 30 languages and taught in classrooms. It took a decade, but Rambo eventually got to the big screen. With Stallone, the perfect combination of physicality necessary for his role and the box office gloss of the first two "Rocky" films, in the title role, the film softened the body count and made Rambo less anti-hero
Morell said the popularity of the book and the film helped change the way the American public, especially those who opposed the war, viewed members of the Armed Forces. He said, " I watched the way people returning from wars were treated afterwards, and I think the film helped convince audiences to see unpopular wars as having people creating wars and others being forced to fight them
But lawyer Paul Rieckhoff, himself a veteran of the Iraq War and the host of the podcast "angry Americans", says that Rambo is not a hero for a large number of veterinarians
"Unfortunately for a whole generation, he identified as a Vietnam veteran,"said Rieckhoff. In society, we literally call it," the stereotype of Rambo
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The broken, emotionally damaged Rambo was originally sentenced to death in the climax of "first blood," but test audiences hated that ending, Morell said. Therefore, director Ted kotchev shot a new picture that kept the troubled hero alive in the version that hit the theaters in 1982. The filmmakers were not thinking about sequels at that time, but cash receipts and box office receipts meant that Stallone and his on-screen alter ego would be recruited for a second assignment in 1985
Stallone's new Cold War hit is titled " Rocky IV," this shirtless version of Rambo will be sent to Vietnam to rescue a group of prisoners of war who ask his boss
Suddenly, Rambo became a conservative icon, a hero's name-he was examined by the then President Reagan when discussing what he would do in the event of another Iranian hostage crisis. "Boy, after seeing "Rambo" Last night, I know what to do the next time this happens,"he said at the time
This release was continued with the third film, "Rambo III", three years later, which incites the hero against the Russians in Afghanistan. Many critics consider it the nadir of the franchise
As a conservative critic, these films symbolized the American Dream, the rooting of the underdog, and were mostly associated with the Reagan era
But even then, Rambo's classification was not so easy. On a publicity tour of Poland in 2001, Morel was surprised to find his visit scattered on the front pages of newspapers. A local journalist, a 30-year-old woman, asked about the headlines
"She told me that during the years of solidarity, Rambo films were illegal in Poland, but they were smuggled,"recalls Morel. People were watching these films, putting on bandanas and going out to demonstrate against the Soviets
"The woman said," indirectly, your character helped bring down the Soviet Union
In 2008, Stallone brought his character back to multiplex for the fourth time with "Rambo", which brought the character back to the haunted outcast He was in the first film, this time against sadistic Myanmar guerrillas. It proved a box office disappointment
Now, he's back for a fifth round of duty with " Rambo: Last Blood."The movie may open with Rambo enjoying domestic bliss on his family's ranch in Arizona, but it doesn't take long for him to get back to solving anger management issues in a bloody way. "I haven't changed,"he told his niece during the calm before the storm. I just put a lid on it
When this cover pops up, he can earn the Guinness World Record for violations of the Geneva Convention performed on the army of bad comrades
"The cartels look like a bulletproof villain and no one will defend the drug dealers,said film historian Peter Biskind. But any time you use Mexicans as villains in the Trump era, it can be seen in the context of the Trump administration's policy
However, Stallone seems to be convinced that his second, more famous role goes beyond the labels: he is inside, under the brutal exterior and exploits, (he is) really a man and a child, the actor said about the attractiveness of Rambo. A person who has just lived under rejection and is still ready to help people and sacrifice himself for a cause
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