Stallone has 'Death Wish' - Entertainment News, Film News, Media - Variety
Any fans of the original Charles Bronson film?
YouTube - DEATH WISH (1974) trailer
Q: You've brought back these characters in a way that has gotten the fans really excited. How do you approach a different franchise like DEATH WISH?
Stallone: Yeah. I think DEATH WISH, if it were done today, would be volcanic. The idea of Jeff Goldblum or some actor being a mugger who breaks into an apartment is very simplistic. It gives you an idea how bad the elevation of violence has become. I would focus on defense attorneys, I would focus on people that are really allowing this crap to happen -- not so much the guy on the street. It's like, 'Who permits it?' What if it happened to you, that your daughter was grabbed and her eyes were put out? Would you sit there and wanna defend that guy? Would ya? There’s moral questions here that are being presented , that have not been answered in thirty years. So, by no means is it the pacifists. Also this fella I see, give ya a little hint, he was a very violent human being, completely violent. I think an ex-convict who walked the walk, was accepted back into society, did everything he could to be a… it’s like these thieves and these junkies are now working the side of the law because they’ve gone that way. And when tragedy happens he reverts back, so now you’ve unleashed this kind of…… a man who really understands a world of violence. He is burdened with this passive aggressive conscience or objective thing that has been done. It’s like what happens when the wolf has gone to wolf in sheep’s clothing, back to the wolf. Now the fella on the street has a problem. Because he knows how to deal with that kind of mentality, he was in prison with it. So it would be a whole different thing.
Any fans of the original Charles Bronson film?
YouTube - DEATH WISH (1974) trailer
Q: You've brought back these characters in a way that has gotten the fans really excited. How do you approach a different franchise like DEATH WISH?
Stallone: Yeah. I think DEATH WISH, if it were done today, would be volcanic. The idea of Jeff Goldblum or some actor being a mugger who breaks into an apartment is very simplistic. It gives you an idea how bad the elevation of violence has become. I would focus on defense attorneys, I would focus on people that are really allowing this crap to happen -- not so much the guy on the street. It's like, 'Who permits it?' What if it happened to you, that your daughter was grabbed and her eyes were put out? Would you sit there and wanna defend that guy? Would ya? There’s moral questions here that are being presented , that have not been answered in thirty years. So, by no means is it the pacifists. Also this fella I see, give ya a little hint, he was a very violent human being, completely violent. I think an ex-convict who walked the walk, was accepted back into society, did everything he could to be a… it’s like these thieves and these junkies are now working the side of the law because they’ve gone that way. And when tragedy happens he reverts back, so now you’ve unleashed this kind of…… a man who really understands a world of violence. He is burdened with this passive aggressive conscience or objective thing that has been done. It’s like what happens when the wolf has gone to wolf in sheep’s clothing, back to the wolf. Now the fella on the street has a problem. Because he knows how to deal with that kind of mentality, he was in prison with it. So it would be a whole different thing.
