He’ll also return for the newest installment of the hit action franchise The Expendables, releasing in August via Lionsgate.

3, which hits theaters May 5th, and will appear alongside his family in the docuseries The Family Stallone launching on Paramount+ on May 17. He reprises his MCU role of Ravager Captain Stakar Ogord in Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. Stallone recently led the Prime Video superhero pic Samaritan and currently stars as New York Mafia capo Dwight “The General” Manfredi in the acclaimed Paramount+ crime drama series Tulsa King from creator Taylor Sheridan. The film centered on a mysterious murder within a retirement home for spies will be the first project falling under Stallone and Balboa’s multi-year, first-look deal with Amazon Studios. Stallone most recently inked a deal to produce and star in the action comedy Never Too Old to Die which was conceived as a starring vehicle for him and has landed at Amazon Studios, as we told you first. I am incredibly excited to be working with him and Ric Waugh to continue the story of Gabe Walker and introduce this iconic story to a new generation of filmgoers around the world.” “It’s going to be a great challenge and blast taking this franchise to new heights, a responsibility I don’t take lightly.”Īdded Moritz, “I’ll never forget the thrill I felt watching Sylvester Stallone in Cliffhanger. To be at the helm of the next chapter, scaling the Italian Alps with the legend himself, Sylvester Stallone, is a dream come true,” said Waugh in a statement. “Growing up with the biggest action films of the 80s and 90s, working on many of them myself, Cliffhanger was by far one of my favorite spectacles. Rocket Science has a partnership agreement with StudioCanal for the film’s rights. Wright Productions and Entertainment, and separately Front Row Entertainment provided development finance for Cliffhanger. Rocket Science will launch foreign sales this month in Cannes, with CAA Media Finance repping North American and Chinese rights. Waugh, Ana Lily Amirpour, Chance Wright, Gianluca Chakra and Hisham Alghanim are on board as executive producers. Producers on the reboot will include Moritz and Toby Jaffe for Original Film, Stallone under his Balboa Productions banner, and Thorsten Schumacher with partner Lars Sylvest for Rocket Science, which will also finance. Michael France and Stallone co-wrote the script for the original film, with John Lithgow, Michael Rooker and Janine Turner among those rounding out the cast.

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