Showing posts with label stallone. Show all posts
Showing posts with label stallone. Show all posts

Monday, February 18, 2008

The Return of the Cliffhanger, Smurf’s Movie, Iranian Jesus, Indiana Jones 4

Stallone to Pull Yet Another Old Character Out of Mothballs?



Having cashed in on long-in-the-tooth 'Rocky' and 'Rambo' sequels, Sylvester Stallone is being pushed to bring back that guy he played in 'Cliffhanger' for a new movie called 'The Dam.' It's probably because people really fell in love with that Gabe Walker character all those years ago. Either that, or movie studios are simply too lazy.

Cinematical, evidently trolling for odd stories this weekend, hit on a tiny post on the public relations website, PR Inside.

"The action man is planning to revisit rock climber Gabe Walker from 1993 film Cliffhanger, according to reports. Sony studio executives are in negotiations with Stallone to revive the character for The Dam."

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First Look: The Smurf’s Movie

With Hollywood running short on ideas, Paramount greenlit a computer animated movie based on the classic trippy 80’s cartoon series The Smurfs (Truth is that the Smurfs are actually 50 years old, having first appeared in comic strips).

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ABC News: Story of Jesus Through Iranian Eyes



"The Messiah," which some consider as Iran's answer to Mel Gibson's "Passion of the Christ," won an award at Rome's Religion Today Film Festival, for generating interfaith dialogue. The movie will be adapted into a television series, shown on Iranian TV later this year.

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Best Of - Indiana Jones 4 - In Depth Look Back at the Series

Classic article by Mystery Man on Film in which he regurgitates all the ridiculous Indy 4 rumors chronicled over the years. "I had wanted to start a filthy, dirty rumor to call my own and had mentioned in some of my earlier Indy articles that the Ark was going to return. As the rumors trickled out about Crystal Skulls, I couldn't think of a way...

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