No one’s safe, not even 13-year-old Sam (Javon Walker), Joe’s neighbor. Schut ( Escape Room, Season of the Witch), the United States, and presumably the rest of the world, teeters on economic and political collapse, with a recession spiraling into a depression, steady gigs difficult, if not impossible, to obtain, and the city’s neighborhoods rocked by crime and violence. In the Granite City of screenwriter Bragi F. The property Stallone and his team found for him, Samaritan, a little-known graphic novel released by a small, almost negligible, publisher, certainly takes advantage of Stallone’s brute-force physicality and his often underrated talent for near-monosyllabic brooding (e.g., the Rambo series), but too often gives him to little do or say as the lone super-powered survivor, the so-called “Samaritan” of the title, of a lifelong rivalry with his brother, “Nemesis.” Two brothers entered a fire-ravaged building and while both were presumed dead, one brother did survive (Stallone’s Joe Smith, a garbageman by day, an appliance repairman by night). Maybe in getting a taste of the MCU (Marvel Cinematic Universe) with his walk-on role in the Guardians of the Galaxy sequel several years ago, Stallone thought anything Marvel can do, I can do even better (or just as good in the nebulous definition of the word). Unfortunately for Stallone and the audience on the other side of the screen, the derivative, turgid, forgettable results won’t get mentioned in a career retrospective, let alone among the ever-expanding list of must-see entries in a genre already well past its peak.įor Stallone, however, it’s better late than never when it involves the superhero genre. Hitting the three-quarter-century mark usually means a retirement home, a nursing facility, or if you’re lucky to be blessed with relatively good health and savings to match, living in a gated community in Arizona or Florida.įor Sylvester Stallone, however, it means something else entirely: starring in the first superhero-centered film of his decades-long career in the much-delayed Samaritan. Netflix announced in February that they were partnering with Take-Two Interactive to produce a “BioShock” film. The award-winning franchise, first introduced by 2K in 2007, has sold more than 39 million copies worldwide across its three titles and their various editions and collections.
The third was set in the 1910s in the Neoclassical-styled sky city of Columbia, a society founded on theocratic megalomania, fueled by religious dogma, and riddled with issues of bigotry, inequality and corruption. Once Lawrence has wrapped production on the said prequel, he can jump straight into pre-production on “BioShock”.įirst released in 2007 by 2K Games, the first two games were set in the 1960s in the Art Deco stylings of the undersea city of Rapture – a fallen scientific utopia consumed years before by its own ambitions and now the dominion of crazed genetic experiments. Lawrence is currently filming “The Hunger Games” prequel film, with the plan being for Green to adapt the script whilst that’s happening. Deadline reports that “Constantine,” “I Am Legend,” and “Red Sparrow” helmer Francis Lawrence has come onboard to direct whilst Michael Green (“Blade Runner 2049,” “Logan”) has been hired to adapt the script for the live-action film for the streamer.
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