Nuclear disaster and mind control in new Universal Soldiers: The Next Generation

From SciFiMoviePage.com

Starring Jean-Claude Van Damme and Dolph Lundgren, Universal Soldiers: The Next Generation will be directed by John Hyams, son of Peter Hyams of Timecop, 2010 and Capricorn One fame. It is the second sequel to 1992’s Universal Soldier.

In the original movie Luc Devereaux (Van Damme) and Andrew Scott (Lundgren), both killed in Vietnam, are brought back to life by the U.S. military as near-perfect soldiers. According to Fantastique magazine in this sequel a deranged Chechen nationalist named Basayev has taken control of Chernobyl, site of the infamous nuclear disaster, and threatens to release radioactive clouds unless his blackmail demands are met.

Devereaux joins a group of re-animated soldiers held in a secret army installation. Their mission: to take back Chernobyl and disarm the explosives set to release the radioactive clouds. Devereaux is however surprised to find that one of the soldiers is a clone of his former sergeant, Andrew Scott, who has no recollection of him. The two soldiers are however captured by Basayev’s troops and using mind control technology Basayev turns the two soldiers against each other. Wounded and isolated Devereaux must fight Andrew to save the world from cataclysmic ruin . . .

Stallone On Death Wish Remake, Cliffhanger sequel and Poe biopic

Sylvester Stallone

By Phil de Semlyen – EmpireOnline.com

With The Expendables soon storming our 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 told us. “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.”

Stallone Says Rambo 5 Will Feature “Feral Beast…Your Worst Nightmare”

From ReelzChannel.com

It was only announced in August that Sylvester Stallone would be returning to star in and direct the fifth installment in the Rambo franchise, so when Stallone recently revealed the plot had changed from rescuing a girl from human traffickers to preventing the creation of super-soldiers, the Internet buzzed with rumors and speculation about what this means for the future of the franchise.

So many comparisons to the plot of the 1992 action movie starring Dolph Lundgren and Jean-Claude Van Damme, Universal Soldier, were made that apparently even Stallone could feel the backlash because he picked up the phone to try to set the record straight. In a recent voice message, Stallone said:

“It’s not a Universal Soldier, it’s not me fighting some super-soldier, it’s actually a feral beast. It’s a thing, it’s this amalgamation of fury and intelligence and pure unadulterated rage. It’s before men became human. This is when they were still inhuman. And, so, what he confronts is everyone’s virtual nightmare … he’s going against a feral beast that has absolute cunning and intelligence and a will to survive that is only matched by Rambo’s, and that what makes it uniquely different. It’s like man’s conscience fighting his dark, dangerous, uncontrollable sub-conscious.”

Stallone added “It’s your worst nightmare. You’re battling your primitive self, which has a lot more cunning and power than than you could have ever imagined.”

The locale of Rambo V: The Savage Hunt, initially described as being along the U.S.-Mexico border, has changed to the Pacific Northwest. Filming was expected to begin in the spring and there is no word if the changes in plot and locale will affect the start of production.

Sylvester Stallone, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Mickey Rourke, Jet Li star in Action Flick

The Expendables

Mark Gorelord – GoreMaster News

Release date: April 23, 2010

Filmed in Brazil

A team of mercenaries head to South America on a mission to overthrow a dictator.

 Sylvester Stallone is the Director and Writer

Cast
  Sylvester Stallone … Barney Ross
  Jason Statham … Lee Christmas
  Jet Li … Bao
  Dolph Lundgren … Gunnar Jensen
  Eric Roberts … Monroe
  Randy Couture … Toll Road
  Steve Austin … Dan Paine
  David Zayas … General Garza
  Giselle Itié … Sandra
  Terry Crews … Hale Caesar
  Mickey Rourke … Tool
  Arnold Schwarzenegger
  Brittany Murphy … Amy

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Make Up Department
  Nikki I Brown … makeup artist
  Scott H. Eddo … makeup department head
  Stacy Kelly … key makeup artist
  Rick Stratton … special tattoos
  Amy Wood … assistant hair stylist  

Special Effects Department
  Marcio Bittencourt Farjalla … pyro/ weapons house manager
  Garry Cooper … special effects workshop supervisor
  Lawrence Decker … special effects technician
  Erika Faccini … special effects producer
  Sergio Farjalla Jr. … special effects coordinator
  Giuliano Fiumani … special effects senior technician
  Alexander Gunn … special effects floor supervisor: Brazil
  Graham Hills … senior special effects technician
  Edward Joubert … special effects technician
  Michael Kay … special effects engineer
  Jeff Khachadoorian … special effects co-supervisor
  Jack Lynch … second unit coordinator
  Jeff Ogg … special effects co-coordinator
  Richard E. Perry … special effects foreman
  Bob Trevino … special effects technician
  Andy Weder … special effects supervisor
  Jeffery D. Woodrel … special effects technician

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