Currently busy on what he still insists will be the final Rambo movie (he's gone so far as to call it Last Blood), Sylvester Stallone has one eye on a batch of potential future projects, including superhero pic Samaritan and thriller Hunter.
While Stallone had a small role in Guardians Of The Galaxy Vol. 2, Samaritan will represent him starring in what is described as a "dark fresh take on the genre". There are few details beyond the fact that it'll shoot next year, but much more is known about Hunter. The novel by James Byron Higgins is one that caught Stallone's interest back in 2009 when he was considering incorporating elements of it into a Rambo plot. That idea has since fallen by the wayside as such things do, but now it'll be a a film of its own, with Stallone on to play Nathaniel Hunter, whose hyper-tracking skills are employed to hunt down a raging beast, a half-human terror created by a renegade agency that is threatening to wreak havoc of civilization.
Stallone is developing both of those via his new Balboa Productions company, and has a variety of other possible films bubbling away in a development slow cooker. Chief among them appears to be an adaptation of memoir Ghost: My Thirty Years As An FBI Undercover Agent written by former FBI field operative Michael McGowan along with Ralph Pezzullo. It'll draw from McGowan's long career infiltrating criminal operations across more than 50 cases.
With the new Rambo shooting, that'll be on screens next year. Stallone is also appearing in Creed II, due out on 30 November in the UK.
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