This is unbelievable:
Sylvester Stallone is to direct his own script about the life of Edgar Allan Poe.****
Stallone wrote a screenplay back in 2002 but the project did not come together until this week. Filming is now planned for this autumn in Europe.
Unfortunately for posterity, Stallone will not play Poe. Robert Downey Jr is apparently his first choice for the part, though it is not known whether the actor has agreed.
It seems Stallone has hung up the boxing gloves and the red bandanna for good and turned to more serious toles. His next project is to direct a film, called Notorious, about the murders of rap stars Tupac Shakur and Notorious B.I.G. Based on his own screenplay, he will play the part of the real-life Los Angeles policeman investigating the killings.
I am still not convinced that this is isn't a joke. I don't know which is more unbelievable, the fact that Stallone wrote and is set to direct a film about Poe, or that he is planning a project about Tupac Shakur and Notorious B.I.G.
Too funny to be true. I guess I'll believe it when I see it.
Thanks to Bookslut for the news.