Out of all of the celebrities that I would ever expect to do a reality show, Sylvester Stallone would be towards the bottom. But he is doing one with his wife, Jennifer Flavin Stallone, and daughters Sophia, Sistine, and Scarlet. And The Family Stallone is going to debut on May 17th on Paramount+.
After playing some of the most legendary characters in cinematic history, three-time Academy Award nominee Sylvester Stallone is ready to give cameras access to what he would consider the greatest role of his lifetime: Dad. This new series starring Stallone’s three daughters, wife, and himself offers a seat at the table of one of Hollywood’s most famous families.
I never thought that he would do a reality show. But then again, I didn’t think he could do Comedy, and Oscar is one of my favorite films. So he is always surprising us.
And I have a feeling we will all be surprised by how good The Family Stallone is.
Even though Sylvester Stallone starred as The Italian Stallion in 1970, he was told he was not Italian enough to be an extra for the wedding scene in The Godfather.
Did he fuhgeddaboudit and the people that didn’t cast him? No! Did he get revenge? Hell, yes!
Stallone told Jessica Shaw on her SiriusXM radio show that 35 years later, he hired the person who told him that. And then he spent every day asking his employee if he was Italian enough now.
While that was that guy, what about Francis Ford Coppola? Stallone got his revenge on the director before the ’70s ended. And his story takes the cake…literally.
It was the late ’70s, and Stallone was riding high from Rocky winning Best Picture at the Oscars. Coppola was working on a movie called Apocalypse Now and needed a leading man. The actor was brought in to meet with him.
He gets to the director’s office at noon and waits to see him. However, the clock keeps moving, but Stallone is stuck waiting to see him. He thinks maybe if he shows the director a picture of him with Copolla’s sister, Talia Shire, who played Adrienne, it will help get him seen. But it didn’t work.
When 5:15p rolls around, a hungry Stallone is pissed and goes into the coffee room. That is where he sees a 7-layer jelly cake, and it looked scrumptious. Just as he was going to take some, he noticed a toothpick with a flag on it that read, “Hands off! Property of Francis.”
What does he do next? Stallone went all Rocky on the cake and smashed it like it was Apollo Creed’s face. And then he left the office covered in cake.
How did Copolla react? He called up Stallone screaming. He was so mad. Actually, the Oscar winner went so berzerk that he threw his statuette out the window.
Obviously, Stallone didn’t get the part, and he is OK with that. That is because he heard it was a hard production to work on.
And it all worked out in the end. Stallone did his own war film. You might’ve heard of it; it is called Rambo. I would rather watch that any day over Apocalypse Now.
So the moral of the story is never tell an Italian from Hell’s Kitchen; he is not Italian enough if you want to have your cake and eat it too.
Sylvester Stallone is doing something he hasn’t ever done before in his nearly 50-year career. He is going to star in a television series. And I am all for it after watching the above trailer.
TULSA KING follows New York mafia capo Dwight “The General” Manfredi (Stallone) just after he is released from prison after 25 years and unceremoniously exiled by his boss to set up shop in Tulsa, Okla. Realizing that his mob family may not have his best interests in mind, Dwight slowly builds a “crew” from a group of unlikely characters, helping establish a new criminal empire in a place that to him might as well be another planet.
The series debuts November 13th on Paramount+ and will stream a new episode weekly.
Before Sylvester Stallone was a respectable actor, he starred in the unrespectable film The Party at Kitty and Stud’s. We all have to start somewhere, and that is how the 22-year-old got his start in that 1970 film.
Megan Fox is an action star, thanks to movies like Transformers and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, but we forget that because she is so beautiful.
While we forgot that, Sylvester Stallone did not. That is why he cast her and 50 Cent for Expandables 4. They will be joined by Jason Statham, Dolph Lundgren, and Randy Couture, who are returning for the fourth film, according to IGN.
Fox is the first actress to lead the franchise since Charisma Carpenter was in the first two films. She was replaced by wrestler Ronda Rousey in the third film.
