Stallone's Death Wish Direction
Rambo discusses his Death Wish redux.
by Todd Gilchrist
January 10, 2008 - Sylvester Stallone, the writer, director and star of the upcoming Rambo, told IGN how he plans to update the main character should he be able to develop a remake of Death Wish. "I'll give you a little hint," Stallone said during a roundtable interview promoting Rambo. "He was a very violent human being, completely violent, an ex convict who walked the walk, was accepted back into society and did everything he could to be a [good person] like these thieves and junkies who now work on the side of the law. They've gone that way, but when something happens he reverts back to that guy."
In November of 2007, MGM chief operating office Rick sands indicated that Stallone was tentatively attached to write, direct and star in a remake of the 1974 film starring Charles Bronson. Stallone did not confirm that he was proceeding with the film, but indicated that he already had an idea how to make the update relevant.
"I think Death Wish, if it were done today, would be volcanic," Stallone said. "The idea of Jeff Goldblum being a mugger who breaks into an apartment is very simplistic. It gives you an idea how bad the elevation of violence has become. I would focus on defense attorneys, I would focus on [the people] allowing this crap to happen -- not so much the guy on the street. It's like, 'Who permits it?'
"What if it happened to you, that your daughter was grabbed and her eyes were put out? Would you want to sit there and defend that guy?"
Stallone explained that his interpretation of the story would be deeper and more complex. "There's moral questions here that are being presented that have not been answered in 30 years. So by no means is it the pacifist [origin of the original]."
Stallone also said that he would continue to develop the idea of the central character being a man who reverts to his more violent self following a personal tragedy.
"Now you've unleashed a man who really understands the world of violence," he said. "He isn't burdened with this passive-aggressive, conscientious-objector kind of thing. That's been done. It's like what happens when the wolf has gone from wolf to wolf in sheep's clothing back to the wolf. Now the fellow on the street has a problem because he knows how to deal with that kind of mentality because he was a prisoner."
Laughing, Stallone added, "So it would be a different take."
http://movies.ign.com/articles/844/844808p1.html im glad hes going back to making extremely violent movies
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