Sylvester Stallone Almost Remade This Classic ’70s Crime Action Movie

“The wish of death” began his life in 1972 as a novel by Brian Garfield. The story followed by Paul Benjamin, a mild accountant who lives in a dangerous neighborhood in pre-Gulian in New York. He has spent his adult life in civic volunteering and trying to mitigate crime in the city, the feeling that society was just exit. However, Paul makes 180 philosophical when criminals break into their apartment, steal their belongings, hit his wife to death, and leave his daughter in a vegetative state. He immediately becomes bitter, angry and violent, developing into a conservative that promotes police so quickly that it truly disturb his conservative friends. In the past, Paul even takes the streets with a gun in his pocket and begins to do deadly actions.

The book ends with the police in the midst of Paul in the middle of the murder … and then gives him free. It is polem from the natural tendencies of mankind to the vengeance of blood and how gentle, liberal thinking denies this invitation.

In 1974, director Michael winner and screenwriter Wendell Mayes adapted “Death Wish” to a big screen. Charles Bronson played Paul, who has turned into an architect called Paul Kersey. He also sees his wife as murdered and her daughter attacked, even though the film looks much more ambivalent in Paul’s growing sense of vigilance. The film reveals that he once swore the use of weapons because his father was killed deadly in a hunting error. Nonetheless, Paul decides to become alert, and the police refuse to arrest him … because crime begins to fall as a result of his actions.

“The wish of death” gave birth to four increasingly horrible sequels between 1982 and 1994Everyone starring Bronson. However, by the 90s, no one could no longer seem to treat conservative revenge fantasies. However, the interest in franchise was aroused in the mid -2000s, and no one other than Sylvester Stallone was about to play Paul Kersey in the new “Death Wish” movie.

In 2006, the works actually included two competing “Death Wish” films. Stallone’s announcement of the “Death Wish” version came at the same time as director James Wan started the “Death Rangation” movie, based on Garfield’s 1975 novel, who was a sequel to his “Death Wish” book. The story goes that Garfield did not like the winner’s movie and wrote “Death Penalty” as a reprimand. Meanwhile, Wan preferred Garfield’s follow -up novel Cheesy “Death Wish” sequels (which have been published by the Schlocky Cannon group) and decided to do “Death sentence” (a movie that really has defenders). The film ended Kevin Bacon in the role of Paul Kersey, only his name was now Nick Hume.

In the midst of all this, it was announced that Stallone was a star “in the wish” of death. ” The following year Stallone told Isn’t that great news The movie was going when the actor-Filmer designed both stars and directs it to his follow-up “Rocky Balboa” success. Stallone, like the idea of ​​reluctant alert, torn his need to be human and tendency to violent anger. He played well in 1982 “First Blood”. He also had a new corner of Paul Kersy, which he described to AICN as follows:

“Instead of being a Charles Bronson character would be an architect; my version would be a very good police officer who had an incredible success without ever using his weapon. So when his family’s attack takes place, he is actually thrown into a moral dilemma to continue his revenge.”

It’s a slightly different story, but the one who could have fit well with the “desire for death”.

However, it seems that Stallone’s participation in the “desire for death” was short -term. Aicn after that announced The fact that the news of the “Death Wish” movie “Death Wish” was a little assault from fans, and he quickly dropped the movie. He also mentioned the “Creative Differences” with the studio and was happy to move on to other projects. Instead, he brought his John Rambo character back in 2008 with a “Rambo” movie, which was a pretty significant hit.

In the meantime, the “Death -To -wish” version remained in hell. After “Rambo”, Stallone once again expressed his interest in the project, even though it eventually became nothing. Eventually, in 2012, the latest was revived, this time, writing and directing Joe Carnahan, and Liam Neeson sets the stars. However, iteration also fell due to “creative differences”. It will take another six years for the “wish” of the death become a real thing, and Roth finally directs and Bruce Willis star in Paul Krerey. In this version, however, the character was a trauma surgeon from Chicago. However, Paul once again begins to revenge blood when his wife and daughter are killed/beaten.

Roth’s “Death Wish” version was very poorly gained and played only 17%of approval rating Rotten tomatoes Based on 161 reviews. Its box office revenue was equally disappointing, and the film made only $ 48.6 million from a $ 30 million budget. We can only imagine that Stallone’s version would have been better, but I think we never know. Since 2018, there has been no longer any talk of Paul Kersey’s return to a big screen in any way. I think we’re finally over it.