Sylvester Stalone Writing And Directing The Edgar Allen Poe Biography

[Seil]

Should we be worried? (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0461315/)

Now, I'm not arguing that Stallone isn't a half-decent actor, but I can't quite imagine Rocky witing a decent screenplay about Edgar Allen Poe.

In other cinematic news, there's going to be a new movie about Edgar Allen Poe! Sweet!

Edited out the AiW stuff.

[Aerozord]

From what little I heard Alice in Wonderland is going to be more faithful to the book, which is pretty much a garentee into atleast PG-13 territory. Mad Hatter for example was a deranged serial killer

[Meister]

While Stallone as a writer might seem a little surprising (at least until you find out that the guy wrote or co-wrote pretty much every Rocky and Rambo movie as well as quite a few others) you can't possibly say the same about Johnny Depp being in a Tim Burton film.

... yeah, I'm gonna go ahead and say, pick one movie for this thread to be about and feel free to make a separate thread about the other.

[RickZarber]

Mad Hatter for example was a deranged serial killerWhat the-?

Um, no. No that is not correct.

[Seil]

What the-?

Um, no. No that is not correct.

I'll make a separate thread. (http://forum.nuklearpower.com/showthread.php?p=959482#post959482)

While Stallone as a writer might seem a little surprising (at least until you find out that the guy wrote or co-wrote pretty much every Rocky and Rambo movie as well as quite a few others)

While I won't argue that those were pretty good, I'll argue the idea that those movies are based around fighting, have explosions and Stallone being allowed to show of his pecs. Poe was part of the Romantics.... though he did do some military time. Maybe we'll get a bad-ass Poe with a rifle in one hand and a pen in the other? Or a bad "The pen is mightier..." joke?

[Magus]

I'd be more worried if it was about any of Poe's stories as opposed to the biography, which at worst Stallone can simply ruin with horribly hamfisted attempts at drama.

Also it will end with Poe coming back from the dead to take Rufus Griswold on in a no-holds-barred boxing match to regain his honor and his (invented) son's love.

I'd be much more interested/horrified in seeing Stallone take on any of Poe's tales, as what would be created would be hilariously bad in a way this film can only dream of.

[MFD]

Poe died alone and unloved, reeking of alcohol on the Baltimore streets. There is no accounting for the last days of his life.

That is the story I want told.

As long as it's supernatural horror, and not the more likely "He drunk himself to death."