Stallone on More Rambo, Edgar Allan Poe Bio-Pic

With The Expendables opening tomorrow and Sylvester Stallone making the press circuit, the subject of what he's got planned for the future. That's the way it goes. Two projects that caught MTV's interest are Stallone's proposed Edgar Allan Poe bio-pic and the on-off Rambo cinquel. "I will direct it, but it's never gonna live up to the hype," Stallone said of his Poe film. "No matter what I do it's going to bomb, totally. Totally! When you've been talking about something for 30 years, it's impossible [to live up to those expectations]." At least he's got the right attitude. But with Robert Downey, Jr. rumored to star, how could it fail? Well, maybe if Stallone appears to be backtracking on Iron Man's involvement. "It has to be like Downey, I designed it for Downey," he explained. "Perhaps I could re-work the script. [Maybe] Johnny Depp. It needs a very special actor like that. I'm sure there's something on the horizon." Hm. I'm going to say probably neither, but you never know. I think a lot of that rides on this weekend, actually. If Expendables is a hit, it impacts where producers throw their money and that, obviously, is a big concern to a lot of actors. With regard to Rambo, we all remember that soon after the fouth film was released early last year, Millennium/Nu Image said we'd get a fifth. Then Sly told Ain't It Cool News it was going to be, in essence, Universal Soldier with a Rambo twist, and then it was just not going to happen. Within the last month, a prequel idea started floating around. Stallone sounds unconvinced that we need a new one. "I just don't know. You've seen everything and I would be repeating myself," he acknowledged. "If the action takes place in America or Mexico, that means by the end of the film Rambo is on the run. And I think he's been running enough, for 30 years, he's gotta stop running. So I thought maybe this is best laid to rest."

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