Wtf?

[longshot]

Title: Poe
Log Line: Centers on the life of legendary 19th century American poet and
short story writer Edgar Allan Poe.
Writer: Sylvester Stallone

More: Stallone will also direct. Robert Downey Jr. is in negotiations to
star.


I though after reading Stallone's draft of "Driven" he would stop writing scripts because he had run out of tired cliche's and predictable plot twists. Apparently he dug up some more.

I can hardly wait.

[dgrunert]

Yo, Lenore!

[refriedwhiskey]

Wow. Well, there's always the slightest chance it'll be another Rocky rather than another Driven.

He has written one great movie that we know of.

[dgrunert]

He has written one great movie that we know of.

Stallone has one of the strangest writer's resumes I've ever seen. Check it out for yourself...

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000230/

[refriedwhiskey]

I had no idea he'd written so many movies.* :eek:

It's funny, because when he was at the height of his fame, I must've thought a dozen times "All of Stallone's new movies are so inferior to Rocky -- he really should take another shot at writing a movie himself instead of making all these crappy ones." Heh.

I also thought Rocky was his first writing credit. Shows you how much I knew about him.

Maybe he did just have one great script in him. I wonder if Lords of Flatbush is any good.



*Part of this is no doubt because writers are considered so unimportant by the mainstream media; if Stallone's starring in and/or directing the movie, nobody's going to waste time mentioning that he also wrote it.

[GBarlow]

Don't underestimate the fact that Stallone is looking at Robert Downey Jr. to play the lead role...

I'm wondering if this is a pet project of Stallone's or a response to this sale earlier in May;

Title: The Lighthouse at the End of the World
Log Line: Centers on the disappearance of the 19th century American author and poet Edgar Allan Poe just prior to his death. In 1849, he was found in a Baltimore gutter, drunk and dying, after having been missing for a week.
Writer: Merritt Johnson
Agent: Keya Khayatian of UTA
Buyer: Fortress Entertainment
Price: n/a
Genre: Drama Thriller
Logged: 5/19/05
More: To be adapted from Stephen Marlowe’s novel. Jonathan Sanger will produce. Marian Rees, Anne Hopkins and Fortress’ Brett Forbes & Patrick Rizzotti will executive produce.

[Twofingeredtypist]

Stallone has talked about his Poe script a number of times in the past.

[GBarlow]

I get it...it's a "safety in numbers" kind of thing...

...kind of like how women have to go to the bathroom in pairs when in a bar or club....

:rolling:

[postalpictures]

I really hope Stallone ends up playing Poe too. That'd be so hilarious.

[Jami]

Leee NORE!! Leee NORE!!!


Jami

[joe9alt]

Stallone originally wrote this script (or a draft of it) in the late 1970's - afer the success of Rocky he was all set to direct and play Poe himself then FIST bombed and financing fell through....30 years later he's back at it. I think that's cool - shows he believes in the project.

[Pen Dragon]

Surprising how many times you make egomaniacal changes to a script in your trailer gets you a screenplay credit when you're Sylvester Stallone

[dclary]

Quoth the raven... Yo, Nevuh more!

[refriedwhiskey]

Hey, if he originally wrote it around the time he wrote Rocky, maybe it's actually good.

[Mickster]

Stallone has one of the strangest writer's resumes I've ever seen. Check it out for yourself...

[http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000230/[/url]

You think that's strange? Strange how?

Don't forget that many accomplished writers have a diverse portfolio. I think it was Robert Towne, acclaimed scribe of Chinatown, who used to write Corman gore flicks in the sixties. Bruce Robinson, probably best known for writing Brit comedy Withnail & I also wrote The Killing Fields.

Sly's portfolio only shows that he's stuck mostly with one theme, that of an underdog fighting back against the odds to overcome i.e. Rocky/Rambo

[canusaycarpaltunnel]

Shouldn't that be:

never MORE!!!! never MORE!!!!



You can joke all you like about Stallone, but they love him in France.