Stallone wants his company to be the Blumhouse of action movies

July 25th 2019, 2:20pm

Last Updated on July 30, 2021

It was just yesterday that we passed along word that Sylvester Stallone is working on bringing his 1981 action-thriller NIGHTHAWKS to the small screen. And also in that same article, we learned that Stallone and executive in charge of scripted development Braden Aftergood want their Balboa Productions to be the "Blumhouse of action films."

Balboa Production's executive in charge of scripted development Braden Aftergood says:

My goal is for us to be the go-to place for action. I appreciate that statement is grandiose, but Blumhouse has done an extraordinary job owning the horror space. There is no reason why we can’t own the action space in a similar way.

I think the company is on the right track considering their next film sees Stallone return as John Rambo in RAMBO: LAST BLOOD, which follows

Vietnam vet John Rambo who takes on the Mexican drug cartels after the daughter of one of his friends is kidnapped.

Avi Lerner’s Millennium is behind the film, which is directed by Adrian Grunberg (GET THE GRINGO) from a screenplay by Matthew Cirulnick (PAID IN FULL). Kevin King Templeton and Les Weldon are producing, with Lerner, Trevor Short, and Boaz Davidson exec producing. Stallone's costars include Paz Vega as "Carmen Delgado, a reporter who covers the Mexican drug trade and teams up with Rambo after her younger half-sister is kidnapped," and Yvette Monreal is taking on the role of the younger half-sister in question. It will hit theaters in wide release via Lionsgate on September 20, 2019.

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